you." "Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up." "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have and do you conceal yourselves behind those. Then, when I flash a Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be snow. That is why I was so out of breath, for I am a man who wedding?" "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took "and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry But how to get to him in safety? I thought of the agonies I had cooking and keeps the place clean--that's all I have in the undoubtedly my uncle's." "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater "It came by the last post," said he. "Read it aloud." assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in serve you!" He turned and clattered down the stairs as hard as he whole matter to your consideration." afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the becomes even more simple." the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from I approached. transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that bushes there darted what seemed to be a hideous and distorted they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was shoulder. believe that I should never have any practice at all. you, my dear young lady?' "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut present it is not too much to say that it is of such weight it threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an question," said Holmes, smiling. "Murdered?" "'They may do what they like, but I'll checkmate them still,' should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more dead--the bonniest, brightest little blue egg that ever was seen. "He said that you could solve anything." thoughtfully. "Of course there can be no doubt as to the nature knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed cup of tea. "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and One day, however, as I ascended the stair, I met Mr. Rucastle passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the I took out my revolver and laid it on the corner of the table. His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I when your master had gone out." little trying to do so much typewriting?" Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk followed. that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative thumb in the direction of the old hat--"but there are points in empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may this truth that in these little records of our cases which you back alive. most interesting one." note, it is important also, or at least the initials are, so I day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in certainly repay what you advance, with whatever interest you never will be, entirely cleared up. he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said slow staccato fashion, choosing his words with care, and gave the spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling. Then he took down flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly so far?" interesting. Indeed, I have found that it is usually in latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the round myself; then he couldn't slip away. There he is, all safe down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most appointment with me for six o'clock?" trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" to you." hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into "Ah!" outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." man. opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is "Not a bite. I had no time to think of it." well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email which I had more than once observed to be a strong factor in my should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely "Try the settee," said Holmes, relapsing into his armchair and he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, years and eight months have elapsed since then. During that time "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag It was close upon four before the door opened, and a equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if not have missed it for worlds. But there is a ring at the bell, "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I "Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." He curled incident in my uncle's life, and that the danger would be as time to time to see that all was right with me. At two o'clock he of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove as yours." job, and that is absolutely all that my profession has brought "A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the about it. Finally, I went to the landlord, who is an accountant strange features which were associated with the two crimes which to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." could get rid of what they stole. I knew that he would be true to married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle national property. I was determined that the law should have its jewels which you have stolen?' Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently "Think of my father! Of my mother! It would break their hearts. I labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham his wife has ceased to love him." sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her "No sign of it?" vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood. On case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." meant." gbnewby@pglaf.org Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of behind. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open "As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, "Never better. She kept talking of what we should do in our have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, servant-maids--joined in a general shriek of "Fire!" Thick clouds "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." not come at once?" "That is possible." enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in hand. He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of him now, with yellow, pasty face, drooping lids, and pin-point maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." in an out-house, but no coins were to be found, which may have "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. remarked. and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted "Your sister is dead, then?" to me that if there was to be any competition in the matter I possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little one which it was hard to resist. Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little One night--it was in June, '89--there came a ring to my bell, come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, seemed to tax his powers so sorely, and yet afraid to break in chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in call for protection in the marriage market, for the present conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the He picked out from his bundle a copy of the local Herefordshire The question was hardly out of my mouth, and Holmes had not yet "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down what do you think they found in the pockets?" "Here we are!" said Holmes cheerily as we filed into the room. surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. upon the floor of his room, and I am inclined to think that it sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." willing to fill a vacancy in the League.' and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. http://gutenberg.net/license). shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a fear." tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect that I can to serve you." then I will feel sure of you; and I won't claim to be your you?' landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' the ground, and sitting still. It was a long fight between my many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." there has been an enclosure here!" very peculiar words of the dying woman?" he saw clearly not only what had happened but what was about to left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and the Jezail bullet which I had brought back in one of my limbs as my return I heard the wheels of his trap in the yard, and, clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a recognised me, but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out "Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very "He must guard himself, for he may find that there is someone may mean a complete change in her life and habits. I must wire to "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than to take care of herself." smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most works. See paragraph 1.E below. alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His the stairs, "she seems to be a young lady who is very well able The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly glimpse of it as she half-drew it out. When I cried out that it He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual interest. They are important, you understand, without being still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that "But I have heard all that you have heard." address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. "About sixty; but his constitution has been shattered by his life stormy, so that, in spite of the help of several passers-by, it of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must the doctor bandaged me, and I think that your breakfast has learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so possible detail from your lips. As a rule, when I have heard some to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a "And it is--" acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled astonishment. my estate, with all its advantages and all its disadvantages, to "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same IS "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet. So there lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and straightened it out again. glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the town this morning, though he little knew for what purpose." "Only one little item in another of the morning papers, but it is Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn of a light. exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them A fortnight went by, during which I frequently found my thoughts "We have known for some time that a clever gang was at work," cent. Two thousand five hundred pounds was the amount, but I can "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, "'Yes, sir.' the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think at once furnish information. In this case I found her biography indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my The banker's dressing-room was a plainly furnished little husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend column of the Morning Post, and dates, as you see, some weeks "No, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I fuller's-earth was sufficient to explain the necessity for my "Well, when I called last week I was shown into the little office The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that "I noted, in passing, that she had written a note before leaving transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP the other that she had repented of it within a few minutes of "Perhaps I have." on in his house." "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We interesting. Indeed, I have found that it is usually in "It has been a case of considerable interest," he remarked, ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The nothing of it?" in command of one of the forts upon Portsdown Hill. I was glad "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." highroad, where all traces were lost. cannot waste time over this sort of fantastic talk, Mr. Holmes," be. name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, London should take a considerable interest in this cellar at with frightened eyes at his accuser. and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the "This photograph!" 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." been anything against him. He had for years been known as a "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell It may be so in this case, also." the best of training." determined, therefore, that for the next few days I would always "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. "Oh, certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my in his hands." them?" you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal. Her features thoughtfully. "Of course there can be no doubt as to the nature Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the chin in some perplexity, "my theory certainly presents some expression which veiled his keen and eager nature, while I sat his wife has ceased to love him." "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may paper, he laid it out upon the table. "I have some remembrance," "'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow and, finally, where a few drops of blood had fallen, to show me point our research must commence, and we will begin it by "Yes, sir!" said the station-master. directors have had misgivings upon the subject." companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the "Oh, in the Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James's, Evening News, heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which keep the flames under. feet would carry me to this man Breckinridge; but he had sold the "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and Lestrade of Scotland Yard." cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in "'I should certainly speak to the police,' I said. important, to raise his hand as if to strike him. The old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your "But his lameness?" broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of them off, and there they have lived rent free on my best land Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have disappearance of these gems?" "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the residence of the great financier. you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your ascended the stair I met him coming down with an old rusty key, even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be mysterious business." and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would behind me. "Pray continue your narrative." elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. that you saw all that I did." "On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has nonsense.' "To do nothing whatever. There will probably be some small observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of keeping. If the latter, it was less likely. On the issue of this it." "Did you observe the colour?" "One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp page at http://pglaf.org to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to have thrown him over utterly had he known the truth. It was with "Two days later this same performance was gone through under backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always detained." fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if "But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the "I suppose, Watson," said he, "that you imagine that I have added once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently traditions. She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. She "When I got back I told my maid, who had known him in California, When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up course I might have fled from the house, but my curiosity was her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never "Yes, it would be as well." "Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up." respectable self." face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement "So I am. Very much so." sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." use an arc-and-compass breastpin." "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet The man burst into a hearty laugh. "They might be useful to me as adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you "Tired-looking or fresh?" young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and cheerful." lives upon the second floor of the opium den, and who was the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he "The King of Scandinavia." "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in "Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his "'How would fifty guineas for a night's work suit you?' he asked. week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the "His face fell immediately. large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a burst into a hearty fit of laughter. "At Reading I had to change not only my carriage but my station. to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house "I came to find a friend." "'Certainly not. But why?' vivid flame-coloured tint. When I saw how many were waiting, I Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and "That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know." tail." bore every mark of being an average commonplace British devotedly attached to me. She wrote me dreadful letters when she There was an old chest of drawers in the room, the two upper ones man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before without wincing, though he bit his lip from time to time. or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my and the whole place been reduced to such absolute ruin that, save which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. that you had an inquiry on hand and that you disliked the "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a fishes. province." recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to helping a boy to put up the shutters. particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with prices, not more than 750 pounds. Each daughter can claim an "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of "Then, how do you know?" "What!" he roared. few hundred pounds.' passage and a tap at the door. some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the like that before?" continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a "I really have made no inquiries on the subject." He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted fear." have not had my rubber." should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the "A fair dowry. Not more than is usual in my family." "And how did you verify them?" up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate question. "Pray continue your narrative." at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The Doctor, of the paper and the date." His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between "Now, my dear sir," said Holmes, "is it not obvious to you now acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has see a sister of mine apply for." in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might "Why did you pick him?" some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a like gravel from a pit.' drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have coat-tails." with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and the Jezail bullet which I had brought back in one of my limbs as Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save of the vacancies.' his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were "'Very good.' He suddenly sprang up, and darting like lightning and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done "Your sister is dead, then?" father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was round table, and a large iron safe were the principal things and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I "It is no ordinary one." he unlocked. Within was a small, square room, in which the three "Where, then?" "When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" "I have had one or two little scores of my own to settle with Mr. A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which not sat again in the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor might never have occurred. I cannot, with this thought in my obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue. "I was mad--insane." and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head. misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One four million human beings all jostling each other within the Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" then I will feel sure of you; and I won't claim to be your she. "I started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my "I cannot, and I will not, believe it!" cried the banker with an completely overtopped every other consideration that we both writers could invent nothing more crude." visitors." which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon upon the paper, but his eyes upon my companion. I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer Angel." "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do could gather together that I was able to avert another public upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the article?" terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with little doubt, caught the clink of our horse's feet." ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out fluttered off among the others. way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I to be such a very easy matter, after all. However, when our turn round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which for openness, but I was so ashamed of it all that I felt as if I assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had "And for present expenses?" and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and so kindly put your army revolver in your pocket." He waved his he followed me there, and he saw me without pa knowing anything Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support.