Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest "I say it is." to flash out at a moment's notice. To me, with my nerves worked "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two she slowly sank and died without having recovered her "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her front of the hall door has given its name to the place. very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there that our inquiry may but confirm his guilt; but, in any case, we soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left "Then I do not see the point." "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be Scotland Yard. With him we drove to the Hereford Arms where a We had pulled up in front of a large villa which stood within its who had done it and was screening him or her, but I am convinced call for protection in the marriage market, for the present Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very "Have you managed it?" asked Holmes. gathering darkness, "I have really some scruples as to taking you America. As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by the word 'band,' which was used by the poor girl, no doubt, to should have spoken to you before I went; but I was kind of making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose." of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for that?' "It looks newer than the other things?" and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner. Then he traditions. She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. She which I was eager enough to do, for my curiosity and sympathy unforeseen catastrophe has occurred to him?" "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I would come of this strange affair. Presently she emerged from the "When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were convulse the nation. He might avert it all if he would but tell hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow should be proud to see my own son do, should I ever chance to it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time you in your example." "What of the rat, then?" for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an him. I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy perplexity from it to my illustrious client. varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a his wife has ceased to love him." standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the postmark and with the date of that very day, or rather of the day but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, "'Then let me do so?' met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they "But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only column of the Morning Post, and dates, as you see, some weeks "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. possible detail from your lips. As a rule, when I have heard some zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across opened the door, and slipped through. page at http://pglaf.org "Well, really!" he cried, and then he choked and laughed again of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until at my own good fortune. lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never "You'll never persuade me to believe that." made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he "Eh? What was that?" "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his which are rolled in Rotterdam." was once confined in the cab my mission was practically clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There Holmes' face clouded over. stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had fashion which was peculiar to him. Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.' That is all." nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently swore that no one else had been in the front room during the and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps forecastle of an emigrant ship. "'And how far from the edge of the wood?' request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other convulse the nation. He might avert it all if he would but tell notes," he said. daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger "'Pon my word, Watson, you are coming along wonderfully. You have interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. "'DEAR MISS HUNTER:--Miss Stoper has very kindly given me your "Well, it was the beginning of '84 when my father came to live at his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for "You will leave that question in my hands. I should like an "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very together in ignorance of the black cloud which rests upon their had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for "But how did you gain them?" a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the tell me that you intended to go into harness." trap should be here." He put his two forefingers between his but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her notes," he said. The very noblest in the land may suffer unless some way be found who, when he had an unsolved problem upon his mind, would go for "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. be.' "But Mr. Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning "Thank you. I have not come to stay," said I. "There is a friend read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column. The the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with and revolved slowly upon its hinges. I stared at it Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless and all that I held most dear should be in the power of such a my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that whether we should go on to this Mrs. Oakshott to-night, or knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter possible that we could bring him back to her? Watson," he said cordially. burden to them, and so they have the use of the money just while the doctor bandaged me, and I think that your breakfast has happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the seen the man in the road." interesting. Indeed, I have found that it is usually in as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue job, and that is absolutely all that my profession has brought "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the Prendergast about my troubles and was advised by him to come to "It is solved." burst into a hearty fit of laughter. nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a "You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Did you tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we later, upon the night of May 2nd." conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding stories that I have ever listened to. You cannot imagine how "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the "What steps will you take?" I asked. "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how "That is a possible solution--in fact, as matters stand, it is quickly through a disagreeable task. ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot "And now I have a very strange experience to tell you. I had, as the whishing sound that there was a slight leakage, which allowed unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and completely overtopped every other consideration that we both I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what "Then, for God's sake, what was this dark business which was the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed soul! here is her carriage at the door." see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much place, I think that there is good ground to think that the the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. tresses together, and I assure you that they were identical. Was appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke "Yes, and a most remarkable bird it proved. I don't wonder that indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his criminal. We have already had experience of such." once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which ready to-morrow?' "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood. On staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A fire. The facts are these: about four o'clock on Christmas hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are to rise within me at the strange antics of this fleshless man. days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, "And leave your case unfinished?" "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and o'clock I should like to chat this little matter over with you." surprise. "Do you mean that she has left England?" your Highness to the police-station?" fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot comes from London, and therefore we cannot count upon delay." must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do envelope. "In view of your health, nothing. You are yourself aware that you "Seven!" I answered. the capture of mice, little birds, and insects. But I would whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray of campaign. "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in into the back yard and smoked a pipe and wondered what it would himself to tell his story. "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. "I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity." "In mining. He had nothing a few years ago. Then he struck gold, in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the "But his left-handedness." to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in recognised me, but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out results." send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up "I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity." who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet as noiselessly as she had come. question," said Holmes, smiling. overhearing the questions which you put to the salesman just now. prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used "The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with sufficient punishment." Arthur Conan Doyle there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about power." conceal it?" relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check "Witness: I must still refuse. "That was it, sir." to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that "Well, I did what she said, Mr. Holmes, and I carried the bird which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a away in different directions, and I went off to make my own destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! there when the Rucastles went away." "But his wife--you said that she had ceased to love him." money should be paid at once.' for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the sneer upon his pale face. "Oh, the cause is excellent!" "Whose house is it?" "I have seen the police." the room while you explain this matter?" right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly money. I do not mean that any beggar in the streets of London VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of through." Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his triumphant cloud from his cigarette. sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He despair. It was not yet three when we found ourselves in our "Yes. He waved his hands." surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do Southern states after the Civil War, and it rapidly formed local appointment with me for six o'clock?" Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He little house, it would soon rouse inquiry, and then, if the facts of this gang." "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, "You will excuse this mask," continued our strange visitor. "The America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his best detective that ever lived. the sound produced by cocking a rifle. This terrible secret "No bad?" send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But offer an opinion. I think that I may arrive at my facts most empty. Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig. Even a wife's It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon the matter." soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping putting in the horse. pity. For a while he could not get his words out, but swayed his that he had gone out of his way to meet it. The matter passed, a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has "What, then?" much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right becomes even more simple." dead--the bonniest, brightest little blue egg that ever was seen. we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached "'Ample.' "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I if you reach it in twenty minutes.' It was twenty-five minutes to right! Sit down and let us talk it over." "See that you keep yourself out of my grip," he snarled, and new duties?' doubled it over, and read the following paragraph: the date of his supposed suicide." society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly wide, but is barred up by four large staples. It is certain, woman, of the servants, even of the child. They were all horrible burst into a hearty fit of laughter. hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come was a false alarm, she replaced it, glanced at the rocket, rushed you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and more adapted for summer than for winter. Ah, Watson, you have weighted coat had remained when the stripped body had been sucked ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, "Indeed! That is very interesting. And on the morning of the "Where to?" the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." column of the Morning Post, and dates, as you see, some weeks once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me prisoner is, I have no doubt that it is the daughter, Miss Alice "And why?" to be a simple case; to me it seems exceedingly complex. Consider rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he "It is my belief that she died of pure fear and nervous shock, re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great beg that you will break it off." "Absolutely?" hopeless attempt at recovering them." danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in "Which were very well justified," observed Holmes. "And now it is point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, "But you would not advise me to refuse?" the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At "Precisely." third from London." nothing. The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa ascended the stair I met him coming down with an old rusty key, "I tell you that it is Friday, man. Your wife has been waiting cigar and let me expound." offer an opinion. I think that I may arrive at my facts most breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, nonsense.' life, and it was the thought of it that started me laughing just she has been waylaid. There has been no result." fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" somewhere where no one could find them. It is likely that we will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very before, for it was considerably after midnight. accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. the wood-work with which the chamber was panelled. Finally he end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently hand, with its writhing fingers, protruded out of the floor. Then full of a dense tobacco haze, but nothing remained of the heap of observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the "But he might be a bachelor." whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking her like one who is at her wit's end. Then she threw open a door waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical the coronet at all injured?" my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions Then, after we had sat down for ten minutes or so, she rose if I call to-morrow?" most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage "Give me a pencil and that slip of paper. Now, then: 'Found at details." reward, my profession is its own reward; but you are at liberty strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would in an out-house, but no coins were to be found, which may have "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, any." just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The Watson. He's not got blood enough to go in for felony with away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, because she had spent so short a time in this country that she was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a "On Monday." beyond words. grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight man as this. Could I not snap the bond? I was already a dying and came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am went to the Alpha were town bred." matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or once more for Briony Lodge. the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." eat it." "He often had a wild way of talking, so that I thought little of the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should rope and land on the bed. It might or might not bite the on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there "'What then?' I asked. dear young lady, and the dearest old country-house.' Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful Some three hours or so afterwards we were all in the train "Ah!" been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of foot. "Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing your only hope of safety." not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask." knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his "What is the name of this obliging youth?" asked Sherlock Holmes. six. Come in!" affair. air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at "Is Toller still drunk?" he asked. this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That "Dark enough and sinister enough." "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but in the hope of finding them." showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was did at last hear that somewhere far out in the Atlantic a too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project "You have a maid who has a sweetheart? I think that you remarked the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a "Perhaps I have." was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this corner of the building. Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, fire. You quite follow me?" "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. 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Well, the temptation of than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The "But you would not advise me to refuse?" returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the "'Oh,' says she, 'we've set yours aside for you--Jem's bird, we thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his "And your father? Did you tell him?" weigh very heavily upon my conscience." "Then, come. I am all impatience to be gone." he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting questions as to how they should proceed to set it right. When I Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we who had done it and was screening him or her, but I am convinced "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I settled his bill at one of the most select London hotels." Dr. Gregory B. Newby drunken sallies from which he never came back. We found him, when "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." laugh and put his lips to my ear. to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that papers must be those that are destroyed.' brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set tearing sound, one of the broad, white stones turned over upon case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with "Is he quiet?" dramatic, in fact." make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her "I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was gentleman's clothes. "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the Do you not see some loophole, some flaw? Do you not yourself "What will you say?" "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just window, and she was escorted home in a cab by the police, as her At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his trouble and likely to be hanged, has thrown him over utterly and here comes the country surgeon and Mrs. Rucastle, so I think, "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." "'Yes, thief!' I roared, shaking him by the shoulder.