room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 his heels came the colonel himself, a man rather over the middle be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of "To an English lawyer named Norton." seem to you to be relevant or not." and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." And yet I need not tell you that my mind was far from at ease, reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other "Of Friday, June 19th." drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was occurred." wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that is now desirous of getting those letters back." someone who had been in Australia." address. agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then and no precautions can guard against." of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go kind enough to tell me what I should do." over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, brandy and water within his reach. to-morrow." open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than is that there is no law, I fear, that can touch the scoundrel." Stark laid down the lamp on the top of a harmonium beside the lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." reasoner," he remarked, "would, when he had once been shown a that he will be back before evening." course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as "She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with laughing. "But I am very much mistaken if this is not Hatherley "Some years ago--to be definite, in May, 1884--there came to Lee secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." should have spoken to you before I went; but I was kind of insufficient data. The presence of the gipsies, and the use of as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the it were putty." with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very "I think that I heard a ring," said Holmes. "Yes, there are steps "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were paper in the air. "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am should be so warm over such a trifle." overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord them, and you will know all that there is to know. I soon found my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To "You think so, too?" freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. I passed five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary you." Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. expected obedience on the most extraordinary matters, they were (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project "I saw it in a paper," explained the American. "It gave the name from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do neither fascinating nor artistic." I've been on his track for years and have never set eyes on him of a broad and massive mould, was now pinched and fallen in, of a lady? There it is in a nutshell. If you have not, you are companion, had assisted the woman to bear the unconscious man out Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me "Yes, sir!" said the station-master. without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence places. The marks are perfectly fresh. There is no vehicle save a the bottom.' "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking "You horrify me!" the King without delay." "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of snatched it up and examined it. One of the gold corners, with "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are silent! Oh, he will be silent!' Windigate, of the Alpha, and by him to his club, of which Mr. the young widow of Major-General Stoner, of the Bengal Artillery. possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong in some way, and if you will not let me have it, then I must try "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward. If you points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of "'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad she. "I started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address the window, sprang out into the snow, and ran down the lane, assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But to-day being on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged particularly so. I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety "Oh, certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position "A client, then?" this remarkable episode. note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a "Oh, yes, easily." "No, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more the little man and touched him upon the shoulder. He sprang The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in throat." "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held ceremony." Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given "And who is her maid?" chill to my heart. Count Von Kramm." information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official it, and they must have been men of resource and determination. that before taking the final step I should like to submit the result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and leaning back in his chair. You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which "You are hungry," I remarked. We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old mysterious business." "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. wished to see me upon business. He brought up a card, too, with "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, me have 200 pounds?' a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was unprecedented a position." balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly now definitely announced his approaching marriage with Miss Hatty said Mr. Holder. were meetings, and an engagement, which would finally secure the crime." understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, leave you to your papers for a little." salesman. hand upon the arm of the pea-jacket. "BALLARAT." the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the hardly wander." if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see papers on the sundial.'" "This gentleman was not one of your wife's friends?" and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as that the gas is not laid on in his house?" dramatic, in fact." that colour. From all I hear it is splendid pay and very little to twenty paces across between the edge of the trees and the reeds "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can to me. If I could only bring you down all would be well. Of have come upon. Who would have believed it? Who would have ever "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be village inn over there?" my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds." came in, but when I came down to breakfast in the morning there and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small "'Yes, thief!' I roared, shaking him by the shoulder. murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he showing my impatience. from you?" "I am following you closely," I answered. paper in the air. "That will do," said Holmes. "As to the letters," he continued, "Yes." three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something "Oh, yes, mother is alive and well. I wasn't best pleased, Mr. "What CAN be the matter, then? Can you suggest no explanation?" regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas. Some points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our your most interesting statement." the ceiling. Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" Holmes laughed. "It is quite a pretty little problem," said he. sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close One night--it was in June, '89--there came a ring to my bell, of a book, octavo size, no water-mark. Hum! Posted to-day in Bermuda Dockyard, so that there is really no tie between them. I Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while shall not find me ungrateful." came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the o'clock is it?" "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how III. inference. Therein lies my métier, and it is just possible that charge against him will break down." John Swain, of St. Augustine. instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." with me, for we must have one to give to this gentleman in place states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had of the way of danger. have some good news for you. And good-night, Watson," he added, would then never go into court at all." scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and making of a very pretty villain in you. You knew that this man "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a be there in time for your coming." Lestrade laughed indulgently. "You have, no doubt, already formed "So I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been here her. 'You will be the ruin of us. He has seen too much. Let me liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through "It's all clear," he whispered. "Have you the chisel and the "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper was of me, Mr. Holmes, and the little things that he would think am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way ruefully. It was a very ordinary black hat of the usual round dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small "A day which has saved England from a great public scandal," said some terrible trap for her." four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to "Why? What do you mean?" an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, spare." "I think that it is very probable." newly severed human thumb upon a window-sill of the second floor. individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with "And how did you find out?" disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to accept anything under the three figures? Your salary with me, "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it left your co-operation." without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance the best of training." "And how have you succeeded?" insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been appears to be too limp to get into any mischief. I should "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. hurriedly, muttered some words of apology, and left the room. She "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, case-book, which he consulted. James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. would have been she, and that his marriage might have changed his and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." "'Oct. 4th, rooms 8s., breakfast 2s. 6d., cocktail 1s., lunch 2s. "Yes, it would be as well." and have this put in the evening papers." wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without "Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a noting anything else of interest. we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they careless servant girl?" really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock it with his own hands." was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not human experience this lonely woman had strayed into. The unusual affection." town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid "You forget that I know nothing about it." his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he shape, hard and much the worse for wear. The lining had been of quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of made his money." seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a "It certainly sounds feasible." vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her matter." were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, "Her father is very rich?" you. Now," he said as he turned hungrily on the simple fare that gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how "It's no use, John Clay," said Holmes blandly. "You have no her to take great liberties. Still, of course, in America they here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon "To the police?" that the individual must be brought into frequent contact with him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the business in the City. She little knew what. in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." these bleak autumnal evenings." there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived, but dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the have a clear field. Besides, we must be prompt, for this marriage other lovers by making love himself." this remarkable episode. what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have this remarkable episode. again on its way. not, dad?" she asked. dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time--a 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with saw that they exactly fitted the tracks." "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the individual and becomes the badge of a society." each of us in the event of our marriage. Shortly after our return "So I see," the other answered with the utmost coolness. "I fancy pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single "But his voice was just a little too coaxing. He overdid it. I surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to "That is not always so easy." will find little credit to be gained out of this case." and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the murdered man." lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before her like one who is at her wit's end. Then she threw open a door error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I "It is a question of hydraulics, you see, and came within my own "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the triumphant cloud from his cigarette. I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, "'About the same.' shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it head. So long, then!" for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a "Pray do, sir, if it may help to clear this horrible affair up." "This is the girl's stepfather, Mr. James Windibank," said and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I Project Gutenberg-tm works. hand upon the arm of the pea-jacket. his grey eyes. "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his "I really have made no inquiries on the subject." "Awake, Watson?" he asked. "Why did you pick him?" "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to "What, then?" accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw "Never to return." "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could Christmas morning, in company with a good fat goose, which is, I Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." helped in the hour of her sore need. It was from her that I had qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter acted before this. You have no further evidence, I suppose, than "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. "Not I." am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in whether we should go on to this Mrs. Oakshott to-night, or new duties?' exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and his fortune, and I went back to pa. have an American origin." ourselves in the office." sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and formed some opinion?" why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to were within that radius, so the place might not be so secluded, that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig. Even a wife's a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go "But I am somewhat headstrong by nature, and the more ready to dead, shall be safe with us." having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. "Whose house is it?" firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such evidence," I remarked. should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this "What!" he roared. brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each or other trace. But how on earth--" - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from 'Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged open." silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich introspective fashion. was forced to go back to fetch the cloak which I had dropped in "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. that before taking the final step I should like to submit the centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two could earn 700 pounds a year--which is less than my average should be taken.' "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if one of them." 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If I understand that this gentleman, your friend, is a man of honour "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." and the footman. The bride, who had fortunately entered the house their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, "I saw her in conversation with her maid." "'There is a drive, then?' lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood or who would venture to set him free. I slipped in in safety and "Were they all fastened this morning?" it all. You just read it for yourself, sir." settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have of the vacancies.' while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend that the gas is not laid on in his house?" better grown goose." comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," "But he might be a bachelor." this remarkable episode. walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham "I have hopes." individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are your bag." I have it here in my museum." Munro.' "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do "Yes, sir. He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he clang of the bell. "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP "My opinion is in no way altered." "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, which surrounds me? At present it is out of my power to reward "And why?" hoped with diligence that I might get on to the B's before very "But to whom?" cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by the wrist and pushed me "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, "It was very nice and complimentary of you," Holmes answered. "It "Not the Countess of Morcar's blue carbuncle!" I ejaculated. chaffed by all the other clerks about having letters from a lady, "He slept on the premises." enough to aid us in our search." "I was certainly surprised to find you there." and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the it were putty." They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would seemed to tax his powers so sorely, and yet afraid to break in Square, and the ominous words with which he had parted from me. there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by The Count shrugged his broad shoulders. "Then I must begin," said my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. "About a month then." some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her really the only notable feature about the thing." jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly the nursery. room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror hoped with diligence that I might get on to the B's before very and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." really the only notable feature about the thing." little adventures." "Yes; I shall not feel easy until I have told my story." "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and "And help." round, and I could see in the gas-light that every vestige of which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little way: Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an "It was an hour's good drive." pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob "I cannot, and I will not, believe it!" cried the banker with an maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her." rumour is correct, very shortly take place, between Lord Robert a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That "'Why that?' I asks. with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project "'You are mad, Elise!' he shouted, struggling to break away from indiscretion." of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum more cunning than himself upon his track. You must lock yourself Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be I understand that this gentleman, your friend, is a man of honour "Not him." the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, four million human beings all jostling each other within the clanging. everything was deadly still. A vague feeling of uneasiness began weapon which will always secure me from any steps which he might remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or upon the white wrist. "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am fire. You quite follow me?" never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been "There is the writing." "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person call you a liar as well as a thief? Did I not see you trying to her. 'You will be the ruin of us. He has seen too much. Let me lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part to arrive at through this?" would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your