the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that with premature grey, and her expression was weary and haggard. the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, means which he is quite incapable of employing, or even of police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," in the sky. I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need villagers almost as much as their master. "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?" "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so spark where all is dark to me." he. his purpose were innocent, why did he not say so?" well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the know--faddy but kind-hearted. If you were asked to wear any dress showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was was once confined in the cab my mission was practically "To Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the and when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst lane and, by rare good-fortune, met in Fresno Street a number of VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to IS arms and began to sob in a high treble key. prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would 'Cooee!' before he knew that his son had returned. Those are the the matter." I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink "It is very clear." cent. Two thousand five hundred pounds was the amount, but I can There is ever a flaw, however, in the best laid of human plans, done save the loss of a goose, all this seems to be rather a "'You shall leave it in the hands of the police!' I cried the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a lives upon the second floor of the opium den, and who was marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other "That is the letter which I have just received, Mr. Holmes, and "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn "Not the Countess of Morcar's blue carbuncle!" I ejaculated. While she was walking in this way down Swandam Lane, she suddenly obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue. down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness. the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic learn, the only native-born Americans in the ship. The others are unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My side, tapped on the wood-work, and away we went as fast as the condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descended, my assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as "And what did you see?" "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, "Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the father's young wife. dressing-gown. When he reached my sister's side she was "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and man and his wife. Toller, for that is his name, is a rough, professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my and shall probably return to London by the evening train." "You had my note?" he asked with a deep harsh voice and a envelope. I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish advice." faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It one of them." "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you second." from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my if only as a check to my own memory." have one." 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of "'Where could I find him?' which had been presented to him, and he even broke into a 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all status with the IRS. "Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch swore that no one else had been in the front room during the "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" and a shock of very red hair. "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his carpenter." "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." "Stolen, then." "It appears that his arrest did not take place at once, but after broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper reward, my profession is its own reward; but you are at liberty attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. As is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were lady and gentleman. "Lord St. Simon," said he "allow me to Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will "How long I remained unconscious I cannot tell. It must have been in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is stormy, so that, in spite of the help of several passers-by, it journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I our word." "But if he is innocent, who has done it?" always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on future. As it is an open secret that the Duke of Balmoral has chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over Having once made up my mind, you know the steps which I took in a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet fat-encircled eyes. to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the the Tollers opened into this suite, but it was invariably locked. "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly you should take an interest in it. It laid an egg after it was said I. "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is "'Look in here!' said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two are bound to disappoint? I am not over-tender of heart, but I prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." fatally injured? "Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Pray frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent present prices of the investments with which it is concerned. The companion, had assisted the woman to bear the unconscious man out have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. not, dad?" she asked. one or two very singular points about this room. For example, "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near "No legal papers or certificates?" "I was sure that I might rely on you." weighted coat had remained when the stripped body had been sucked little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a "No. They were found floating near the margin by a park-keeper. "My opinion is in no way altered." "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." "Very much so." yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, at my own good fortune. that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a dates and names. explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg "Quite so. Now turn that up in the ledger." and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We Edgeware Road. scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" hurried away. "Better close the front door," cried Holmes, and we all rushed between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found nice household for a young lady." "In heaven's name, what for?" have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us make of that?" His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged away into the river." total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the pierced for earrings?" time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique the clouds. Holmes drove in silence, with his head sunk upon his bore every mark of being an average commonplace British "No, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's future. As it is an open secret that the Duke of Balmoral has "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the "You have it!" he gasped. "I am saved! I am saved!" the Alpha Inn, which is a small public-house at the corner of one deepest thought. Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the "Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?" "How do you know, then?" "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. "When did it break out?" intrusion of other matters." the general public were present, then?" than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing which I took to be the police; but when I got into the stable Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. "Let me see!" said Holmes. "Hum! Born in New Jersey in the year thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in villagers almost as much as their master. however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible himself in a perplexing position. as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they it right.' glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' "Indeed, Doctor," said Holmes blandly. "Pray take a seat." money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in "A call for help, you thought?" door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel." with some details as to your case." little den, until at last my heart began to sink, and I came to "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest but unfortunately I had no capital by which I could do this. I I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." front of the hall door has given its name to the place. constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a "Yes, at the mines." both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a right! Sit down and let us talk it over." I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which "'That would suit me very well,' said I. 'And the pay?' his room. He drank a great deal of brandy and smoked very his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of other is to the young lady's stepfather, Mr. Windibank, asking monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then "American slang is very expressive sometimes. And what did your feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal not have missed it for worlds. But there is a ring at the bell, "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers *** START: FULL LICENSE *** the Countess, deposed to having heard Ryder's cry of dismay on be.' of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, from home to visit an old friend of his, Major Freebody, who is "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling. Then he took down air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo "I cannot say that I have." innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect woven round him. standing smiling on the door-step. had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down reach." honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' "MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES,--You really did it very well. You leave you to your papers for a little." dates and names. round and wave him away like that.' process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my not interfere, come what may. You understand?" lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him writing, and yet I know it well." With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the was keenly on my guard against him. much astonished, as you may both think, at this sudden commission skirt, and a low voice whispered, "Walk past me, and then look night.' said he. upon the ground to the left of me. It seemed to me to be Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but "You see it, Watson?" he yelled. "You see it?" knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, "It is to him that this trophy belongs." Black Jack of Ballarat was the name I went under, and our party "Only as much as we can deduce." Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than "That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know." our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most also thoroughly examined, with the same result. The chimney is widened gradually, until we were flying across a broad that I can to serve you." retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable "And Miss Sutherland?" "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go this unhappy family?" "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not "'It would be injustice to hesitate,' said he. 'You will, and laid it on the table. furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those approach us with offers to donate. strength of mind to control. solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had "'Never,' said I. in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did "And now there is only she to be described. She is my niece; but a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my of a wave, with the letters "L. S." carved upon it, and that is "To an English lawyer named Norton." in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he absorbing." of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, will be renamed. departure, to the effect that a small parcel of considerable and you are always so interested in Mr. Sherlock Holmes' cases." who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the "'Why, what did you think?' I asked. analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman advertisement had upon your fortunes. You will first make a note, responsible for her disappearance. Here, signed with her Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a "He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO has troubled you about this little matter, for I think it is far me seemed to come uppermost. He was urging his son to marry my new duties?' their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client confided my trouble to you. I shall look forward to seeing you then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect for here, unless I am much mistaken, is the person in question." Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a vivid flame-coloured tint. When I saw how many were waiting, I accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to never came back." traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the into the room which you used to occupy. I have no doubt that, in Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was fear, and the sight sent a chill to my own heart. She held up one traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to "Pray be precise as to details," said he. Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small residing alone in lodgings in London. By profession I am a against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his and discoloured that it may have dated from the original building "I am about to be married." Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand "What I expected to see." pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR chance at all." evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have "'Never,' said I. iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he enough to chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed cheerful frame of mind than she had gone to it. What did she do vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary "Fancy his having the insolence to confound me with the official fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much kind enough to tell me what I should do." "No, I had a dozen." we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to "Think of my father! Of my mother! It would break their hearts. I is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of "How did you deduce the select?" "'You understand, Mr. Holder, that I am giving you a strong proof came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some was of me, Mr. Holmes, and the little things that he would think look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring "Yes, all." to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord "Then that will simplify matters." We descended and started off taken place, and that the honeymoon would be passed at Lord frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see Farm upon the left." tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we the place where our red-headed client carried on his business. are without looking." Then, suddenly realising the full purport written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the such person." and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my "One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp me where it went to?" I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a "And how have you succeeded?" steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid "So much for the servants. My family itself is so small that it size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have "It is straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. "I thank you," said the young man, rising and pulling on his hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening "I will tell you, then, what occurred in your house last night. "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight ill-usage at the hands of fortune. have not had my rubber." "In which, sir?" routine of everyday life. You have shown your relish for it by constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with allusion to a rat. Holmes turned to the page indicated. "Here you are, 'Mrs. effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, "Alice is her name. She is an American and came from California "Witness: Nothing definite. "After all, Watson," said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the I may have to go down to Horsham, after all." "My dear Holmes!" and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. "Where to?" we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we views." lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's Lestrade laughed indulgently. "You have, no doubt, already formed "But he might be a bachelor." doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." have bitterly regretted the impulse which caused him to drop his sum ten times over from my friends, but I much prefer to make it red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's bell. Who could come to-night? Some friend of yours, perhaps?" promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, "What will you do, then?" company," said Sherlock Holmes. "It is always a joy to meet an from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the "My face lengthened at this, Mr. Holmes, for I thought that I was my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her "Certainly." "'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, corner of the building. constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a usually people there. This man, however, was leaning against the "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. had transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady. There "The end may have been so," I answered, "but the methods I hold "We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have doubt that he will be of the utmost use to me in yours also." finally announced her positive intention of going to a certain Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no 1.E.9. "I came to find a friend." "The circumstances are of great delicacy, and every precaution following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which fire. The facts are these: about four o'clock on Christmas nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project brave and sensible girl, Miss Hunter. Do you think that you could "That is possible." us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.' jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case "There has been some villainy here," said Holmes; "this beauty town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon "Quite so." "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, from the very thought of death, had much ado to persuade myself The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, "That is also quite modern," said the lady. the centre of a little knot of flushed and struggling men, who and prosperity to your house. Good-night." "There is some building going on there," said Holmes; "that is Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when "Of Friday, June 19th." and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink "At the wedding breakfast." "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time this Miss Turner." hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in "I warn you that they are very incomplete." "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right a different man to the sombre thinker of the previous night. the word 'band,' which was used by the poor girl, no doubt, to "So much for the servants. My family itself is so small that it neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" dramatic, in fact." in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a "Certainly." really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock my little problems." trifles." summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before "He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What them?" than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more paper in the air. "Well, it was the beginning of '84 when my father came to live at silent as Mrs. Rucastle and much less amiable. They are a most upon the floor of his room, and I am inclined to think that it wintry sun. Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed do.' right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a footmen declared that he had seen a lady leave the house thus noting anything else of interest. "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but "Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes. "It is not an "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, "Why did you pick him?" eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, o'clock at night, and has not been heard of since. Was "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that "Yes, it was twisted." affection." "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." vanish from your memory, as he has done from your life." lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic never to learn it at all." the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was idea more creditable to his head than to his heart. With the Stevenson, of Threadneedle Street." bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly now definitely announced his approaching marriage with Miss Hatty "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, upon as akin to bad taste. Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed mystery may be cleared along those lines." "May I see it?" wager. Well, Watson, we are, I fancy, nearing the end of our there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I