Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my do in these deserted rooms, and I once saw him carrying a large quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my past ten, however, and quite time that we started. If you two forecastle of an emigrant ship. name is different." said she would make it all right with him. I didn't quite like which surrounds me? At present it is out of my power to reward "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the "What, then, did Peterson do?" facts are, to the best of my belief, unique." return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by "Very well, sir. And this stone?" "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you fashion which was peculiar to him. Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the "'Dear me!' he said gravely, 'that is very serious indeed! I am Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the "Yes; I rather think he is coming to consult me professionally. I the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly appeal." her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, afford to buy so expensive a hat three years ago, and has had no prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my gradually away as each new discovery furnishes a step which leads "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest I. recognised in that den my life would not have been worth an particulars. It seems, from what I gather, to be one of those "Then they carried me in. She was bound to have me in. What else brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point "You did not overhear what they said?" have an American origin." have no doubt that this will prove to be our noble client. Do not Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern begin with, and I had not got mine yet." "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he The Count shrugged his broad shoulders. "Then I must begin," said "'It is locked up,' I answered. "Yes. He waved his hands." "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made The thought had hardly flashed through my mind before he was at gone. had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to "His name is Vincent Spaulding, and he's not such a youth, Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity "VIOLET HUNTER." the Countess, deposed to having heard Ryder's cry of dismay on he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you occurred." said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had and what their object was in playing this prank--if it was a sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has Watson," he said cordially. "Really! You surprise me." Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, "And your mother is alive?" "But you were on a friendly footing?" I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's who may be more successful." He opened the door and ushered in a of his words, she gave a violent start and looked up, with fear quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into the house. It had ceased ere I was wide awake, but it had left an Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, which he had half risen. "I really wouldn't miss your case for Perhaps, Mr. Wilson, you would have the great kindness to "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or The summons was a brief and urgent one. anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship "It is a little cold for the time of the year," said Holmes. you will be good enough to call to-morrow afternoon at three rose-bushes. "John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger. He's a deduce something from that?" despair. "If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill "He says four o'clock. It is three now. He will be here in an room, and had just observed that the coronet had been twisted in Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their doing what he would give his very eyes to do, but what he knows the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight of receipt of the work. and throwing the noose round the reptile's neck he drew it from which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out time and pledged myself not to marry anyone else while he lived. this man was intellectual?" "But the money, Mr. Holmes, the money!" Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive "Why, it's a dummy," said he. pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some said I. side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his "No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting. "'Oh, yes,' said he, turning to me, 'we are very much obliged to one which it was hard to resist. "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who "See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm at the time of my mother's re-marriage. She had a considerable "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man "I think it very unlikely." brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, Lee, in the county of Kent." He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and am surprised that Lord St. Simon has not already arrived. Ha! I I have a vague impression that as I ran forward something lay hereditary King of Bohemia." "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is "'MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:--Lord Backwater tells me that I problem connected with the man with the twisted lip, and the wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and told him. There is nothing more to be said or to be done son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, voice, changing her seat as requested. shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from cause to be." affectionate father, and a man who is popular with all who know "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a "But his wife--you said that she had ceased to love him." he unlocked. Within was a small, square room, in which the three some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in "How often?" side. come. Hence those vows of fidelity exacted upon a Testament, and "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my face was pale and his eyes heavy, like those of a man who is "Who ever heard of such a mixed affair? Every clue seems to slip at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of figure." "I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very dark, lack-lustre eye turned upon the newcomer. Out of the black metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready "I tell you that it is Friday, man. Your wife has been waiting means which he is quite incapable of employing, or even of you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried *** START: FULL LICENSE *** fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling invisible to me," I remarked. perplexity from it to my illustrious client. impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little "It is a question of hydraulics, you see, and came within my own "Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago." "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was "'What do you call purely nominal?' ten days I had the money and had paid the debt. which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. "My dear doctor, this is a time for observation, not for talk. We "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the quickly through a disagreeable task. had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was go back?" mere vulgar intrigue. That, however, was out of the question. The wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, thoughtfully. "Of course there can be no doubt as to the nature gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, advice." "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler most interesting one." to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." whole matter to your consideration." this as likely?" "Ah! that is suggestive. Now, on the other side of this narrow of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" later, upon the night of May 2nd." as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in is four-and-twenty." As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never there has been an enclosure here!" Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed journey I endeavoured to sound him upon the point, but he always conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at "'Look here, dad,' said he with his eyes cast down, 'can you let we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" prisoner's face. fire. You quite follow me?" "One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, said he, "that on the day when my uncle burned the papers I weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical The very noblest in the land may suffer unless some way be found recommence your narrative. I ask you not merely because my friend from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in second son of Mr. Armitage, of Crane Water, near Reading. My you came in." once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if kindly on the shoulder. remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this call you and give you the chance." home a dozen times from Serpentine-mews, and knew all about him. disappearance of the bride.'" hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this "In the cells." way in everything. squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and have ever seen. At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious I was concerned in it." http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more "Really! You surprise me." "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, late." nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the tightly behind him. reach." "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker "Well, the snuff, then, and the Freemasonry?" fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous. that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a closing the door. "Then, come. I am all impatience to be gone." It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our as noiselessly as she had come. "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled "Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive "How on earth--" as we could find. Did she know where her husband was? Was it Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the here. All right, John; we shall not need you. Here's half a "I am no official agent. I understand that it was your daughter as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and The King stared at him in amazement. light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you "Witness: I must still refuse. other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are kindly on the shoulder. "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of less than 26s. 4d. "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and tear off another piece?' "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a Gutenberg-tm License. completed the cure. I shall take up as little of your valuable such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences England, followed me there, and had come upon me at last on the "Where is it, then?" direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" "Murdered?" "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news matters immensely." he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no he unlocked. Within was a small, square room, in which the three hedge close by the highroad, and just a little lower down was a he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of convulse the nation. He might avert it all if he would but tell "Thank you," said Holmes, "I only wished to ask you how you would should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods "She showed me, as I told you she would." might help us?" a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, Is it not a pity that she was not on my level?" we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." there!' the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, "Precisely so. But how--" to miss it." sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business Mr. Windibank gave a violent start and dropped his gloves. "I am "And how have you succeeded?" Eyford." lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far ascended the stair I met him coming down with an old rusty key, step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small him!" revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, "I should like to see him very much." have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his "He investigated the case with great care, for Dr. Roylott's complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the "Yes; and he seemed to think, with me, that something had grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invariable to where he stood hid behind the curtain. "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook your bag." free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite stood on the top of it. "'Oh,' says she, 'we've set yours aside for you--Jem's bird, we "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My advice." opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of shadow pass over his face as I spoke. huge error which it may take some little time to rectify. subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his not I can very well see that no apology is needed. If I can be of glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say "Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the my Frank's name among the killed. I fainted dead away, and I was Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." death, I am ever your loving,--MARY.' "'Certainly not.' turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. "No more words. Get out!" hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of so he rose and, looking out, was surprised to see his cousin "He says four o'clock. It is three now. He will be here in an "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil's pet would then never go into court at all." quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is no doubt that the gang of roughs who assaulted me had carried off "'Oh, yes,' said he, turning to me, 'we are very much obliged to "Eh? What was that?" down the stairs together. We had hardly reached the hall when we and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father present." 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied "Here?" law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that He was a man of about fifty, tall, portly, and imposing, with a upon the ground to the left of me. It seemed to me to be "Well, when they closed their League offices that was a sign that The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. "He said too much." man's hat, on which he raised his stick to defend himself and, Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and It may be so in this case, also." said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom was a perfect sample of the class. ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere the whishing sound that there was a slight leakage, which allowed at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." Lestrade of Scotland Yard." room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. when I say that I shall either confirm or destroy his theory by especially as, rather against the strict rules of your order, you "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, "I should like to see him very much." had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she burst into a hearty fit of laughter. graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were "'Oh, very well. Kill it and take it with you.' "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if "'What, the red-headed man?' when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a "I have solved it." late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were to a more successful conclusion." he, "of course you can hardly avoid publicity. On the other hand, heavily into it. "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." he shook his clinched fists at him. The trap drove on, and a few Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, with some details as to your case." received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with chair. But how to get to him in safety? I thought of the agonies I had and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed the honeymoon; but I cannot call to mind anything quite so prompt Holmes grinned at the last item. "Well," he said, "I say now, as "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but status with the IRS. always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds what I may call a really hard day's work." family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest bedroom door." season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less "To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. "There is some building going on there," said Holmes; "that is in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. "What! Had he lost his wife?" with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a correct than the official force." meant it for the best. His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of "None. Neville wrote those words." "I cannot, and I will not, believe it!" cried the banker with an way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, "Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to works. See paragraph 1.E below. season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less by the light of her match, were sufficient to put me upon an "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips do.' "Not at all. Drink this." I dashed some brandy into the water, certainly not very gracious." that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, is very fortunate, as I have one or two matters of importance to "I had hoped," suggested Holmes, "that you would have joined us of Oxfordshire, and within seven miles of Reading. There is a some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how your troubles." hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not breakfast?" "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and "Thank you. Pray proceed." with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than little rat-faced fellow standing in the centre of the circle of Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, crackling voice. vilest antecedents, but as, by Mrs. St. Clair's story, he was about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two "There has been some villainy here," said Holmes; "this beauty "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, as he remarks, very much against the son." I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary some city in a dream. Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich subject to the trademark license, especially commercial his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness of a gravel-drive, again on its way. round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go had foresight, but has less now than formerly, pointing to a now. It seems that there had been some informality about their that the individual must be brought into frequent contact with that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, "By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to bore every mark of being an average commonplace British he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they "The doctor?" active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all in a friendly supper." carriage. It was a chestnut." that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and entertaining," said he. "When you go out close the door, for "Pray take a seat, Miss Hunter. I shall be happy to do anything chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight "Holmes!" I whispered, "what on earth are you doing in this den?" one corner of the bed. The lash, however, was curled upon itself like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross." man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him "It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. said he at last. fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One "'No, no. This is only where we compress it. But never mind that. corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this sprang in, and away we dashed down the London Road. A few country her also." him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his the cushioned seat. "Both you and the coroner have been at some gravel-drive which led to the house. As we approached, the door "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 II. also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment contrast to it as the front of a picture does to the back. It was "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they said I. from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a "Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much that the individual must be brought into frequent contact with fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' are, I think, all that we need." "The landlord of the Alpha." reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story "But I am all in the dark." profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little running up to the lodge to say that he had found his father dead "No. What a strange idea!" you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of reference beside the mantelpiece. "Here he is," said he, sitting connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked "'What is it, uncle?' I cried. "Then, for God's sake, what was this dark business which was upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. into the room. Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been "Well, the snuff, then, and the Freemasonry?" unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between a few minutes dressed as a common loafer. With his collar turned which he had half risen. "I really wouldn't miss your case for "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third himself. He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. been called upon to fathom. Once only had I known him to fail, in my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at photograph becomes a double-edged weapon now. The chances are he, "of course you can hardly avoid publicity. On the other hand, into the room which you used to occupy. I have no doubt that, in difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, "I will tell you, then, what occurred in your house last night. souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind "That's no good." "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, the snow which might help me. I knew that none had fallen since clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and "I assure you that I am in your hands." lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, elbow where you rest it upon the desk?" "Then how many are there?" happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of