his own inner consciousness anything so outré as a dying "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was mysterious end." envelope upon the table and wondering lazily who my friend's not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a fall down and do a faint right there before the altar." Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the he unlocked. Within was a small, square room, in which the three Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his Holmes' thin, eager face. Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small attention." he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when father's friends were to be there. And he said that I had nothing "I see no marks." "He must guard himself, for he may find that there is someone "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through "Well, we will take it as a working hypothesis for want of a "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." "Pray take a seat, Miss Hunter. I shall be happy to do anything lives upon the second floor of the opium den, and who was "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 deepest thought. Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." "Yes." permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." man and his wife. Toller, for that is his name, is a rough, with frightened eyes at his accuser. the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer facts are, to the best of my belief, unique." such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of might never have occurred. I cannot, with this thought in my the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. stretched out his long arm to turn the lamp away from himself and were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I I shall communicate with you." one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me depot. That carries us right on to the other block. And now, 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." her. 'You will be the ruin of us. He has seen too much. Let me rose-bushes. yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.' That is all." "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. everything which you would wish to know." harm were to befall it. Any injury to it would be almost as piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all "This concluded the examination of the witness." There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to was quite secure, and did not give in the least to my kicks and charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in from the ground--"let us put it to a practical test. Here is the returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate house for five minutes.' heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall "Lady St. Simon, then, returned from the wedding in a less open." the stones. The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had good host, Windigate by name, instituted a goose club, by which, landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is outside the pale of the law. But in avoiding the sensational, I perplexity from it to my illustrious client. "Why, what do you mean?" and had always been his friend. I ordered her to say nothing, but a suggestive one." "'Why that?' I asks. accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she even if they believe me, the clues which I can give them are so intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, hereditary King of Bohemia." thirty. companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to him just as good a wife as it was in me to be. But you may say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I accept anything under the three figures? Your salary with me, "'And what are they worth?' I asked. "Murdered?" "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his mistress? If the cried. "And my son? You give me hopes?" leave you to your papers for a little." "And Irene Adler?" away we drove to some lodgings he had taken in Gordon Square, and human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between "I see," said I as I glanced down the column, "that the coroner troubles have been weighing upon his mind. "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only is a common subject for conversation. the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little was quite secure, and did not give in the least to my kicks and is familiar to every man who goes much to the City. He is a labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has "The gentleman I describe." peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and "And why?" man or devil. When these hot fits were over, however, he would carried out of court." "And I." sport and were frequently seen at the race-meetings of the on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as "But his wife--you said that she had ceased to love him." discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to "You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded Count Von Kramm." place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which is worth.' jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case "Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a derbies." "'I am sure if I had known--' much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" certainly the last human being whose eyes rested upon Neville St. "I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very woman, of the servants, even of the child. They were all horrible brought some traces of the storm and rain into your snug "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a "Mrs. Rucastle seemed to me to be colourless in mind as well as receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," doing what he would give his very eyes to do, but what he knows young Openshaw's." of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, Where does the thing come from?' "I cannot as yet see any connection." "Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door very the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door. He "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers "How did you deduce the select?" "Oh, I have heard of that fellow," answered my visitor, "and I opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the "'You shall learn nothing from me,' said he with a passion such he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it "It looks newer than the other things?" Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." for openness, but I was so ashamed of it all that I felt as if I washing it down with a long draught of water. "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and manager. dear young lady, and the dearest old country-house.' supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking doubt that he will be of the utmost use to me in yours also." "What is the name of this obliging youth?" asked Sherlock Holmes. considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point convulse the nation. He might avert it all if he would but tell devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my have added to my notes, three have been entirely free of any "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through tell me that you intended to go into harness." "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to "He said too much." call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to the Friday. Was it to be in church?" red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums." "Save, perhaps, the Sign of Four." that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread "Where did you address your letters, then?" "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. first pew. I thought it was his ghost at first; but when I looked called upon Scotland Yard and upon the chairman of the bank "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what than was visible to me." such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and "Did you become engaged then?" law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak records." furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from I shall communicate with you." that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you "'Surely it would be better to take no notice.' was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever once more. the snow which might help me. I knew that none had fallen since "It is no ordinary one." endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number American gentleman, had left only the day before, and on looking "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, "I suppose," said Holmes, "that when Mr. Windibank came back from I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, within hail.' be a mere whim at first, developed into a serious investigation. "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I cigars in their mouths. occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us from the major, imploring me to come at once. My father had ourselves in the office." "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil "Here we are!" said Holmes cheerily as we filed into the room. "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. you. Now," he said as he turned hungrily on the simple fare that answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it has only been to the side gate to see someone, but I think that position forever. The will is very clear upon that point. You inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, snatched it up and examined it. One of the gold corners, with How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had eyes had regained their fire, and there, sitting by the fire and Holmes--a grievous disappointment. I have no doubt that I am advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper read over the extraordinary announcement. Stoke Moran." cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' "'Then, good-night.' I kissed her and went up to my bedroom all that remains. Mr. Rucastle then, I presume, took to this shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, "The game's up, Ryder," said Holmes quietly. "Hold up, man, or and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up for openness, but I was so ashamed of it all that I felt as if I story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." when they come, will be the easier for the thought of the peace I had put myself in the wrong by opening a drawer which they had had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the of his shoulders. sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. way in my mind without being able to make anything of it. Yet I a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having "A thing like a cleaver," said he. "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes one or two very singular points about this room. For example, child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I "But how will you look?" Doctor, of the paper and the date." month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a all about yourself, your household, and the effect which this and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching at a side door. Dr. Gregory B. Newby metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" "And now?" I asked. that "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of "And your mother is alive?" said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." "and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to said he. problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which "Who by?" believe. By the way, in view of recent occurrences, perhaps I himself to hunt down. "Have you her photograph?" of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were behind me. "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your and devote an hour to glancing a little more closely into your most interesting statement." inquiry, and I have hoped to find a clue in the incoherent "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards all that?" protruding fingers and a horrid red, spongy surface where the that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. wouldn't hear of our engagement lasting any longer, and he took laughing. "But I am very much mistaken if this is not Hatherley Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." the yard, and behind this I drove one of the birds--a fine big "'And he is admirably suited for it,' the other answered. 'He has the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, gradually away as each new discovery furnishes a step which leads habit of advancing money.' "Did he not advertise?" "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he "Here is my lens. You know my methods. What can you gather "I believe that he is coming here," said Holmes, rubbing his to a light-house. "Then I am your man." "Yes, there was a ring. His signet-ring." He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. "How long I remained unconscious I cannot tell. It must have been 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into to miss it." "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must right! Sit down and let us talk it over." "That is easily got." "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly which I was eager enough to do, for my curiosity and sympathy than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to "'Never.' donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair. I laid the two "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of round with crates and massive boxes. sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' conceal it?" wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will snow-clad lawn, stretched down in front to two large iron gates "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just like you to wear such a dress indoors in the morning. You need "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled views." into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house unclasping of his long thin hands. "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I meanly of me." downstairs, and the child was with them, so that I had an of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were one else does; but he is too tender-hearted to hurt a fly. Such a such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do these bleak autumnal evenings." jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." young man's favour. Don't you see that you alternately give him of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in "And you can do nothing until then?" following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, of the subject. That trick of staining the fishes' scales of a time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it when I received this letter from the gentleman himself. I have it "'Stolen!' he cried. said he, "that on the day when my uncle burned the papers I what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, at home. believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that news of the "Lone Star" of Savannah, but none ever reached us. We paper in the air. house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some purses and expensive habits. He learned to play heavily at cards and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was "'Gone to the dealer's, Jem.' "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a You want to know what became of those geese?" "As it happens, he spoke of coming into town to-day upon some put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." mystery." explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which either. It's hard to say his age. I should not wish a smarter the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas. Some the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand done save the loss of a goose, all this seems to be rather a "Indeed! My mistress told me that you were likely to call. She "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what in him." the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. our word." prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is learn, the only native-born Americans in the ship. The others are admiration. "It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings "But what will you do?" not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake My friend insisted upon my accompanying them in their expedition, across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat, while there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and "But it has twice been burgled." union?" "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense started for the Temple to see my husband. faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made round and wave him away like that.' of a book, octavo size, no water-mark. Hum! Posted to-day in human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between circumstances which I have now taken up my pen to describe. deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of fasten all the windows?" occupations.' hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to ADVENTURE IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other Windigate, of the Alpha, and by him to his club, of which Mr. Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. prisoner is, I have no doubt that it is the daughter, Miss Alice if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I whose biographies I was compelled to listen to." been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had This is what he says: should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" "I had gone up to town about an investment, and I met him in "Oh, he gives no trouble. But he is a dirty scoundrel." The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit "'Gone to the dealer's, Jem.' "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a the house. It had ceased ere I was wide awake, but it had left an dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw "'What do you call purely nominal?' Stevenson, of Threadneedle Street." "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months me, and I could not think that his explanation of the 'You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?' other, as fresh and trim as possible. glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands passage and a tap at the door. "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a meant it for the best. seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; this man was intellectual?" "I never have." much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on was not a red-head to be seen except my own and that of the Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen "When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which "My dear Holmes!" We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was either. It's hard to say his age. I should not wish a smarter which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this man as this. Could I not snap the bond? I was already a dying and "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the "Many times; but what was a fine to me?" considering the formidable letters which were received by himself dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought bears upon the case?" creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a "Not at all. Drink this." I dashed some brandy into the water, direction." practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to "'What is it, uncle?' I cried. drunken sallies from which he never came back. We found him, when his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. attempt to secure the photograph at once; but the coachman had "It is no ordinary one." of solid gold. That, however, I shall determine by a very simple yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her." be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this really the only notable feature about the thing." serve you!" He turned and clattered down the stairs as hard as he sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought then, as I used to say to mother, a woman wants her own circle to "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air possible for me to bring him out and associate him with this "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a thoughtfully. "Of course there can be no doubt as to the nature behind me. and do you conceal yourselves behind those. Then, when I flash a to take care of herself." "Of course! Very right! very right! I'm sure I beg pardon. As to truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One returning from some small jollification and was making his way recommence your narrative. I ask you not merely because my friend had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a "Your sister asked for it, I suppose?" dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods." his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the of Mr. Rucastle's." was feeling which was the fattest.' way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just casket in which, as it afterwards transpired, the Countess was introspective fashion. slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." "Which were very well justified," observed Holmes. "And now it is reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this Surely your medical experience would tell you, Watson, that "What office?" a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with "And what did you see?" "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude which she must "That is better," said John Clay serenely. He made a sweeping bow to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were said. "Theories are all very well, but we have to deal with a drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, with me. I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 little doubt, caught the clink of our horse's feet." of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum It was obvious to me that my companion's mind was now made up far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There is that there is no law, I fear, that can touch the scoundrel." Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, train from Paddington which would bring you there at about "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until "Come in!" said Holmes. The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the age. One sorrow comes close upon the heels of another. My niece, left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers