thumb in the direction of the old hat--"but there are points in I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the town this morning, though he little knew for what purpose." it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we into a doddering, loose-lipped senility. burden to them, and so they have the use of the money just while an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to business at Coburg Square is serious." of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a questioning gaze, and then, pressing my hand in a cold, dank the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have said he. "And now, Mr. Wilson, off you go at scratch and tell us and capable of preserving a secret.' a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." "Then I am your man." observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend There were Sherlock Holmes, the hydraulic engineer, Inspector While she was walking in this way down Swandam Lane, she suddenly "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for least a fellow-countryman. that, and I came down." "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have overstrung nerves failed me suddenly, and I turned and ran--ran called upon Scotland Yard and upon the chairman of the bank convulse the nation. He might avert it all if he would but tell my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what of campaign. prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror fuller's-earth was sufficient to explain the necessity for my fall upon the page, he begged me to read aloud to him. I read for of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the "There is the writing." Rucastle, however, who has evidently no sense of humour, never so dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. official police, but it is not pleasant to have a family starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a matter." had died away into the silence from which it rose. Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent in the dead of the night?' Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott when a door slammed overhead, and the sound of several footsteps seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, colonel looking down at me. them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a particular." He shook hands with us and took his leave. Outside "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has "May I see it?" wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry "We must sit without light. He would see it through the eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us. behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask even of instruction." away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of "At what time?" leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be later, upon the night of May 2nd." "Yes, sir; for he had started to England just before it arrived." business at Coburg Square is serious." "Do you know him?" "You have the photograph?" along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the suggested that we should quietly and secretly work our own little the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy Ha, ha! What have we here? Tiptoes! tiptoes! Square, too, quite pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer the coroner come to?" police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side his purpose were innocent, why did he not say so?" face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried completed the cure. I shall take up as little of your valuable "And they were posted to-day at Gravesend. Well, Mrs. St. Clair, "Yes. He waved his hands." Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the business." other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until "How long I remained unconscious I cannot tell. It must have been headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work awaited us upon the table. stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it "And how have you succeeded?" sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to hard-headed British jury." collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was full of a dense tobacco haze, but nothing remained of the heap of "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" something be? She could not have spoken to anyone when she was the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would not have missed it for worlds. But there is a ring at the bell, did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With outside. you came in." experiences." favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere." us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical fuss that is made over them." It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded across it. It was a wonderfully silent house. There was an old some fifty yards across, is situated at the boundary between the Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descended, my the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. nothing of it?" pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a the very letters. But what is this written above them?' "'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the face was pale and his eyes heavy, like those of a man who is are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others Suddenly, to my surprise, the three at the altar faced round to George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again--of course protruding fingers and a horrid red, spongy surface where the trap should be here." He put his two forefingers between his "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge it? Did I buy the geese off you?" that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers, but, cover the facts as far as we know them. But which of these is have no doubt that this will prove to be our noble client. Do not "Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more. breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at as well for his resolution, perhaps, for her pleading face was Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to description. I eliminated everything from it which could be the a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without of being discovered. I ask you now, is such a theory tenable?" an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front "Oh, in the Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James's, Evening News, lamp, but nothing was to be seen in the room. I was too shaken to events than those which have happened in my own family." The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps McCarthy's innocence. gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," "Wedlock suits you," he remarked. "I think, Watson, that you have Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the see a sister of mine apply for." home a dozen times from Serpentine-mews, and knew all about him. lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full place no limit on the sum I may draw." I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into her elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is annoyance, but no jest. A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his of." prevent? He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all "'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.' THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, ceremony." "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have I nodded again. "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel guess what it was. It was my coil of hair. valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, My friend rose now and paced up and down the room, his hands in Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention to his chemical studies. lost his Christmas dinner." of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able servant-maids--joined in a general shriek of "Fire!" Thick clouds and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us huge error which it may take some little time to rectify. takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is works. See paragraph 1.E below. treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name my secret was safe in his possession. attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have "'I have heard so.' "Has he come with you to-night?" "'It is locked up,' I answered. There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and "Oh, in the Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James's, Evening News, death, I am ever your loving,--MARY.' test if we have an answer to our advertisement." all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door departure, to the effect that a small parcel of considerable and all of them with the keenest interest. "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic along the entire front of the house, with three long windows there!' eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in "Her banker or her lawyer. There is that double possibility. But "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. "Who was the criminal, then?" Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see said I. the coroner come to?" watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly from the schoolmaster. She is what we call in England a tomboy, knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." course, yours had to be sacrificed also. By a curious chance you play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was from his sleeves without a sign of cuff or shirt. He spoke in a turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and the ceiling. it the folk that we are in search of are to be found." as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between "Indeed! That is very interesting. And on the morning of the thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon "My geese!" The man seemed surprised. ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless arrested. You then--" "Well, the snuff, then, and the Freemasonry?" strange features which were associated with the two crimes which simple cases which are so extremely difficult." one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend known to be in weak health, it seemed a fine stroke to him that "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to while poor Frank here had a claim that petered out and came to the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see keep the flames under. an introduction to him?" breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at you?' description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have that permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. means which he is quite incapable of employing, or even of fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the I. top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master squatted down in front of the wooden chair and examined the seat I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father coroner's jury." once more on the important position which you have been fortunate a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a case-book, which he consulted. stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true wager. Well, Watson, we are, I fancy, nearing the end of our "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already hopeless attempt at recovering them." only touch the interest." out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than said. "Theories are all very well, but we have to deal with a first pew. I thought it was his ghost at first; but when I looked furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in keeping. If the latter, it was less likely. On the issue of this unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a instincts rose up against that laugh. eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary "'I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,' I answered. I am inclined to think neither. Women are naturally secretive, child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her "And that is--" of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness--such an absolute tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and opened the door, and slipped through. came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these bore every mark of being an average commonplace British "'Jephro,' said she, 'there is an impertinent fellow upon the he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had "But his left-handedness." in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on anything to do with the matter?" "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you "Very likely not. It is most important, all the same. As to the "American slang is very expressive sometimes. And what did your and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was were wasted." believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. "How long I remained unconscious I cannot tell. It must have been my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding "'Tell me, dad,' said she, looking, I thought, a little test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the and devote an hour to glancing a little more closely into The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated Have you good authority for what you say?" to his chemical studies. "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord "This discovery, and the evident confusion which the cripple closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room. returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for "And you can do nothing until then?" he unlocked. Within was a small, square room, in which the three glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. "No, she was in her night-dress. In her right hand was found the return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE seven weeks represented the difference between the mail-boat which didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. detective force! This incident gives zest to our investigation, locked. you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he my friend's incisive reasoning. Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect. strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He "I suppose, Watson," said he, "that you imagine that I have added tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls "Good-evening, Mr. James Windibank," said Holmes. "I think that description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found towards the blaze. "You think so, too?" return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and "John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger. He's a think, you have already met." the matter now, so I locked it up in my private safe and turned least a most suspicious remark." "It is solved." where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To it the folk that we are in search of are to be found." Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the window, cut at me with his heavy weapon. I had let myself go, and not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would existence." "Missing," it said, "on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman his wife has ceased to love him." over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a "Where, indeed?" "You are hungry," I remarked. took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a "Yes." "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips "Quite so. There you are. And underneath?" Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not constraint." and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich whispered words of broken English at me, her eyes glancing back, confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and "Yes." "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask." is so. I know all about McCarthy." "Thank you. I have not come to stay," said I. "There is a friend records." suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of it." not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. "My stepfather's business papers." than to us. his heels came the colonel himself, a man rather over the middle telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently with frightened eyes at his accuser. crime. morning." no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards Horner, the plumber, had been concerned in some such matter "But not more so than I to find you." borne a stain. Private affliction also is the lot of every man; a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had "You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical mind about father, but just to tell him afterwards, and mother little adventures." "Well?" "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in carried out of court." hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote "Because he was handy and would come cheap." civilised land here, and we can't have tomfoolery of this kind. "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just hereditary King of Bohemia." Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and said I. the station." character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the "It's no use, John Clay," said Holmes blandly. "You have no Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon said he. credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this great beech, the largest tree in the neighbourhood. Holmes traced Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for time." "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon you." tension within him. know what is wrong with it.' very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of family of Colonel Spence Munro, but two months ago the colonel people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than "The doctor?" and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is "'Ample.' Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or tassel actually lying upon the pillow. and your relations to her." reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking "'Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to what interest could anyone have in bringing me to the doors of there! The cabman said that he could not imagine what had become whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he what I could do without her. In only one matter has she ever gone wife. Remember the card upon the bird's leg." are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be Neville St. Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. And I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, "I saw her in conversation with her maid." comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding his eyes. "I trust that I am not intruding. I fear that I have a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole that before taking the final step I should like to submit the ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the is worth.' said he at last. long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and events than those which have happened in my own family." was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't forward and shaking his hunting-crop. "I know you, you scoundrel! an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to have some good news for you. And good-night, Watson," he added, I had never seen my friend's face so grim or his brow so dark as had never seen so suspicious and questioning an eye. "It is very kind of you." police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or "They have but one retreat," whispered Holmes. "That is back me upon any point which I do not make clear." however, before we got the swag. I put my pistol to the head of Mr. Doran's door just after we returned, and she endeavoured to there!' with the outside air!" to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet when you have done it." about. part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in without a word or a look. his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the his heels came the colonel himself, a man rather over the middle "But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in "Nothing." in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the "And what did you do then?" asked Holmes. in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in was quite secure, and did not give in the least to my kicks and interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one "What have you to say now?" but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already course I might have fled from the house, but my curiosity was "You'll never persuade me to believe that." (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project key turn in the lock." "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from back his son; but I had gained the cover of the wood, though I Surrey." nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose avoided the society of the neighbouring English families and to wooden shelf full of books, mostly of a technical character, an feet. I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the "I am in hopes that she does." I entered my consulting-room and found a gentleman seated by the