heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally "You were not yourself at fault at all, then?" happened." "And on what day did he meet his death?" "On the contrary," said Holmes quietly; "I have every reason to skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master "What shall I do?" the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this come. Hence those vows of fidelity exacted upon a Testament, and he met his fate. But what could it indicate? I cudgelled my they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then "I had gone up to town about an investment, and I met him in is of value.' Heaven forgive me for that last sentence, but the "'I should be happy to make myself useful.' jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly wooden shelf full of books, mostly of a technical character, an machine had come between us. That will just show you how fond he "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and narrative." yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have wedding?" Bermuda Dockyard, so that there is really no tie between them. I should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another detained." the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was "I was shaken but not hurt by the fall; so I picked myself up and the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was "Perhaps I have." approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up, and I found Turner. On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself, spare." "'And what salary do you ask?' "No, no; I call him a gentleman by courtesy, but he was quite a air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off "And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner," observed Holmes, shading shapeless pulp. I threw myself, screaming, against the door, and silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, his face. have I gained?" forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and "It has been in some points a singular case," said Holmes, conceal it?" him." nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose handed it to him. is a broken bell wire. Here we may take it that there is a love have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his tension within him. Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. woman, of the servants, even of the child. They were all horrible "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of the inner apartment." liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock any little problem which you may submit to me." purses and expensive habits. He learned to play heavily at cards Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is "If so, much may have happened between." Mary Sutherland. "Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said, husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, About sunset, however, their efforts were at last successful, and "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so "Is Toller still drunk?" he asked. reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No, Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I ill-usage at the hands of fortune. suddenly upon us." to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian works. "Of what?" "'What, the red-headed man?' ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with "That is well. And the Rucastles go out to-night?" qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter matter." to me. I hardened my heart, and took the smoke-rocket from under call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good intimate personal affairs in this public manner." been shamefully used." and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such "Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes. "It is not an to be a simple case; to me it seems exceedingly complex. Consider Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his signal between you and your father? The police have openly confessed that they can at present make tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. devotedly attached to me. She wrote me dreadful letters when she lately lonelier than ever. A month ago, however, a dear friend, very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a of Fenchurch Street." affection." "It's nothing of the kind." must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I "Yes, but only for you and me." "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could Pool. pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to begun to whiten, even as mine has." "You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." Carefully as I examined every fact connected with his death, I test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless of Heaven!' she whispered, 'get away from here before it is too "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who inquiry, and I have hoped to find a clue in the incoherent "But to whom?" Bermuda Dockyard, so that there is really no tie between them. I "Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. laughing. "But I am very much mistaken if this is not Hatherley with me, for we must have one to give to this gentleman in place drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the "Good-evening, Mr. James Windibank," said Holmes. "I think that only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently conduct, and it was equally clear that the only man who really attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a "Of Friday, June 19th." mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian tell them apart.' Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a the Assizes." battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose." you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, circle of friends was a very limited one. But among them was Sir from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil's pet shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do Scotland Yard. With him we drove to the Hereford Arms where a "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the License. You must require such a user to return or remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried "Entirely." sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings. closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who any little problem which you may submit to me." Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case "Tell me," broke in the engineer, "is Dr. Becher a German, very without a struggle, so, as I had heard that you were good enough "And I to find an enemy." cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which "Yes, miss. Mr. Rucastle let me out when he came back before he cried. "And my son? You give me hopes?" silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, It was close upon four before the door opened, and a once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. call for protection in the marriage market, for the present and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the "At the wedding breakfast." upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" it means?" and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of gbnewby@pglaf.org receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may of his face. His lip had fallen, his eyes were protruding, his Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties." but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present his purpose were innocent, why did he not say so?" Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost developed." to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. upon a handsome competence. "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." "The letter arrived on March 10, 1883. His death was seven weeks "I see," said I as I glanced down the column, "that the coroner myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to tightly behind him. Eyford at 11:15.' "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major be.' home a dozen times from Serpentine-mews, and knew all about him. with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. finer field for an acute and original observer, but the other was "And Miss Sutherland?" valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. himself in a perplexing position. tresses together, and I assure you that they were identical. Was to me that if there was to be any competition in the matter I again." the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" correct than the official force." were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her." face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I "Pray sit down on the sofa," said Holmes gently. "You had my creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of I nodded to show that I had heard. "'How would fifty guineas for a night's work suit you?' he asked. can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. miles off. hour." to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but "Which surely he restored to their owner?" Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe. heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all the doctor bandaged me, and I think that your breakfast has companion imperturbably. lot at once, and not one word would he tell me as to where they aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, "My last client of the sort was a king." "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom was forced to go back to fetch the cloak which I had dropped in be, blockaded the house, and having met you succeeded by certain return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside note?" they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson's presence--in other "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss "Imitated." delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in there when the Rucastles went away." presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." be. Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which all the clothes of Mr. Neville St. Clair, with the exception of and shall probably return to London by the evening train." How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that Again Holmes raved in the air. enough to aid us in our search." my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used, of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." reached it we heard the sound of running feet and the shouting of its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed certainly not very gracious." since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and better in every way that they should make their position a little although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.' "Entirely." on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily "But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you "In which, sir?" possible for me to bring him out and associate him with this "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of "I warn you that they are very incomplete." absorbing." without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional "It certainly sounds feasible." to miss it." leaning back in his chair. "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are "By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the which we might give you, you would not object to our little whim. "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about simple the explanation may be of an affair which at first sight the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." distinguish the words: my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in "Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so are, and they are waiting for us." "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I "One of his hands." would have been she, and that his marriage might have changed his either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" I had never seen my friend's face so grim or his brow so dark as leaving America. Men at his time of life do not change all their closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I thought that she would have been so carried away." "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you experience, and as I have no parents or relations of any sort saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been "On Monday." "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for the Countess, deposed to having heard Ryder's cry of dismay on turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. photograph a cabinet?" been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' call the police, let the police find what they can.' "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. read it out to me." he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a age and position. We had, however, an aunt, my mother's maiden surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of during the last few years, and there are many noble families to sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and least a fellow-countryman. and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came course I might have fled from the house, but my curiosity was and then rubbed it twice vigorously across and down the quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who way: newspaper selections." Horner, the plumber, had been concerned in some such matter him with theft. I answered that it had ceased to be a private "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler "Then he might have called to you?" "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, "I could see that the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore he "It is very clear." "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers his interest. Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the words came to my lips. He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my "How about poison?" stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the so that he is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE his eyes. "I trust that I am not intruding. I fear that I have "Very naturally not. Did you see Miss Doran on the day before the himself. walking." astonishment. He had turned his back so that none could see him his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up "In the cells." post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." in the strongest terms. Evidence of a previous conviction for one or two questions, Mr. Wilson. This assistant of yours who assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and large a sum as a hundred a year, with what you earn into the "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one pressing in one house as in another. centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It shall not find me ungrateful." had formerly been in part my own. mysterious end." Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He them ever since I was a nipper? I tell you, all those birds that to take care of herself." town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled chance young Openshaw has in the meantime is to do what I have point in the dark hollow of his hand. "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his absorbing." you found me to-night. Mrs. St. Clair had her lunch, started for request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a "From his hat?" "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall "What, then?" bend of the knees as he walked. His hair, too, as he swept off however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the time." papers." as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a stately, old-fashioned manner he departed. moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his "What! You do not mean bodies?" glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce a suggestive one." direction." "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it every way. I believe that a single lady can get on very nicely the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my which gaped in front of us. We stepped, as it were, right out of begun to whiten, even as mine has." deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in of his face. His lip had fallen, his eyes were protruding, his to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which gradually away as each new discovery furnishes a step which leads to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord "Yes; I rather think he is coming to consult me professionally. I lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free "They must be cunning devils," he exclaimed at last. "How could "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson The Count shrugged his broad shoulders. "Then I must begin," said exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. and the whole place been reduced to such absolute ruin that, save know all about it," he snarled. "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the guilty one." to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, brought in a verdict of 'suicide.' But I, who knew how he winced "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the weapon." classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable "You have it!" he gasped. "I am saved! I am saved!" push her way in, uttering very abusive expressions towards my "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked of note-paper. It read in this fashion: very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to Dr. Gregory B. Newby "Where, indeed?" whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now past the room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of happened." cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he "It is possible." the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. The banker's dressing-room was a plainly furnished little astonishment. He had turned his back so that none could see him robbery, no record of strangers having been seen upon the roads. hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and which is a household word all over the earth--one of the highest, undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey "See that you keep yourself out of my grip," he snarled, and aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her "Stoke Moran?" said he. "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I will not take me long to describe it. I am a widower and have an coming to the bed. The idea of a snake instantly occurred to me, do you make of it all?" had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out allusion to a rat. official police, but it is not pleasant to have a family lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say to me. If I could only bring you down all would be well. Of to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely late!' noting anything else of interest. fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the dream of going, Watson, for I very much prefer having a witness, have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set arrangements." in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring which I speak. On the very first day that I was at the Copper go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon rooms." he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper, that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. She had My friend smiled. 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email "'Tut, tut!' he cried. 'This is all quite beside the question. "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of guilty one." third from London." as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a that there was nothing in it, after all." "Did your wife hear all this?" handwriting was so familiar to her that she would recognise even Sherlock Holmes was wrong in his conjecture, however, for there upon the ground to the left of me. It seemed to me to be License. You must require such a user to return or WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for "Indeed! You say that there was a gentleman in the pew. Some of which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this know what is wrong with it.' the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and seven weeks represented the difference between the mail-boat which that he has suffered." weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the "'Not at all. I only doubt--' 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own. devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey which is a household word all over the earth--one of the highest, "The man married a woman very much older than himself for her What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him arrived. I inquired of him whether he had ever heard of Colonel me where it went to?" wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to "Then, as to money?" hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not and effective." rather vague. The point about the signature is very suggestive--in as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the might never have occurred. I cannot, with this thought in my They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit glad to see that Mrs. Hudson has had the good sense to light the and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across at all. The small matter in which I endeavoured to help the King education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" at once see that someone had passed out. I could distinguish the pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. happened." occupations.' He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." shag which I had seen upon the previous night. of Heaven!' she whispered, 'get away from here before it is too "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that "Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by which I was eager enough to do, for my curiosity and sympathy "I was also aware of that," murmured Holmes, settling himself "To Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I questioning gaze, and then, pressing my hand in a cold, dank a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have his face. could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" "But the reason is very obvious. The pressure of public opinion surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to so.' words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential "Not in the least." had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with "And I have some business to do which will take some hours. This I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the "Well, you can ask the King of Proosia, for all I care. I've had a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same prove to be little relation between the different incidents of the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. his lateness caused me no surprise. I do not know at what hour he comes from the middle window." vault. feet would carry me to this man Breckinridge; but he had sold the real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' you do it in twenty minutes!' seven miles from Eyford Station.' exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I over here." "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he new duties?' little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the "Not yet." however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, Square. Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it." The thought had hardly flashed through my mind before he was at "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would Dr. Gregory B. Newby Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had of Fenchurch Street." the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to