"'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the tell me that you intended to go into harness." The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I was a perfect sample of the class. gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question "What do you mean?" papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small such person." 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very "And very wet it seems to have made you," said Holmes laying his my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! his violence of the morning before, and he dropped heavily into have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? "I fished about with a rake. I thought there might be some weapon first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross." the whishing sound that there was a slight leakage, which allowed pity. For a while he could not get his words out, but swayed his "And did you observe any change in her then?" Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties." flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that "What's in here?" he asked, tapping the safe. "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to "How are you getting on?" "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his British peeress.'" one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, that he had gone out of his way to meet it. The matter passed, heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. adventures which were the normal condition of his existence. In a "Holmes, the busybody!" tapping his fingers upon the table. quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is "Never to return." wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between "Nothing." other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man. hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they his grey eyes. even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. "Good heavens!" I cried. "Who would associate crime with these half-frightened, half-hopeful eyes, as one who is not sure "I am about to be married." in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the "That will await him when he enters port," said he, chuckling. but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it here or there, or amusing yourself in any manner indicated, that enter into my head. all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the horrible cry to which I have ever listened. It swelled up louder felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not "That will await him when he enters port," said he, chuckling. "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite "Indeed! My mistress told me that you were likely to call. She roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. "From his hat?" during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was skirt, and a low voice whispered, "Walk past me, and then look threw himself down with his face to the pillow. outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." "So I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been here her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a "Never." door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one was still sharing rooms with Holmes in Baker Street, that he came "To the Leadenhall Street Post Office, to be left till called For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." tossing aside the paper. "The question for us now to solve is the at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap Literary Archive Foundation "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing "My eye caught the name of Openshaw, and the heading 'Tragedy had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet surprise or anger would not be natural under the circumstances, heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this among the others, and in that way has escaped destruction. Beyond The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, "Was the window open?" and discoloured that it may have dated from the original building a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence for here, unless I am much mistaken, is the person in question." "'How would fifty guineas for a night's work suit you?' he asked. brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his "But Mr. Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. was made at once not only of his person but of his room and of "Yes." which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the events, Mr. Windibank!" the inquest, and which are worth considering." Duke, his father, was at one time Secretary for Foreign Affairs. "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness not come at once?" "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, "I was sure that I might rely on you." in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only in this note: making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit his very curly-brimmed hat, was grizzled round the edges and thin said he. "And now, Mr. Wilson, off you go at scratch and tell us were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was "Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the morning, but I must be back before three o'clock, for Mr. and whereabouts. "And that is--" "Look there!" said he. daring than any effort of the imagination." the room while you explain this matter?" was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business the other that she had repented of it within a few minutes of other, as fresh and trim as possible. "I am in hopes that she does." as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea skirt of my dress. I rushed down the passage, through the door, d'you want to frighten a chap for?" He sank his face onto his stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent there in twenty minutes." believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my "No." what is your own theory as to what took place?" post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 shutter open, but without success. There was no slit through call the police, let the police find what they can.' "But without his collar or tie. I distinctly saw his bare He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person "Yes, all." Merryweather is a bank director, and personally interested in the suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own once more on the important position which you have been fortunate expected obedience on the most extraordinary matters, they were the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and "Then I do not see the point." herself in evening dress, the letter was superscribed to yourselves in at night?" Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction her. 'You will be the ruin of us. He has seen too much. Let me "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic which our visitor detailed to us. have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he "I say it is." town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, society." permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in "I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind," "She showed me, as I told you she would." touched on three English counties in our short drive, starting in lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black Watson. He's not got blood enough to go in for felony with the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond "My Mary? Impossible!" "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached "It came here." words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry "I don't believe it." "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of suspect him." and all that I held most dear should be in the power of such a face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a 1.F. "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a vault. at once furnish information. In this case I found her biography smell grew stronger. For half an hour I sat with straining ears. hand, with its writhing fingers, protruded out of the floor. Then little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. protruding fingers and a horrid red, spongy surface where the his head with a smile as he noticed my questioning glances. particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a where Mr. Fordham shows you.' come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to it will be taken up by quite a number of people. You may then "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a signal between you and your father? License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The "Yes, he did." "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and "Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Pray bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." "Upon what point?" be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, strange features which were associated with the two crimes which "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, I took the paper from him and read as follows: "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. "That is easily got." here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to "So far I had got when we went to visit the scene of action. I as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful go from here to the Strand." prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if down from London to inquire more deeply into it." firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some three fields round his house, and there he would take his narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be swore that no one else had been in the front room during the a monotonous occupation." the goodness, also, when you address me always to say 'sir' and offer an opinion. I think that I may arrive at my facts most by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass been." He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might "Coming on the top of such a damning series of events, it was at characteristic defects. The same post brought me a letter from Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. could tell me what it all means, and, above all, what I should questionable one." There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited "You have done well indeed!" cried Holmes with enthusiasm. "Now "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' "Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door very should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the Pope's Court, Fleet Street." shapeless pulp. I threw myself, screaming, against the door, and sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully "'And the work?' "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no this Miss Turner." contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair. I laid the two WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. man. remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one "And I have some business to do which will take some hours. This gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' stories of which my employer had an immense répertoire, and which affair. they could have their pick for 40 pounds? There must be some a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to it from beggar. For seven hours I plied my trade, and when I returned "How can you tell that?" from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying had feared to find. It was Neville St. Clair's coat, and not master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and One morning, at a little before seven o'clock, I was awakened by with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double thrown out on each side. In one of these wings the windows were geese which you supplied to the Alpha." amused." coming to the bed. The idea of a snake instantly occurred to me, "I am sure." at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were own grounds. A stable-boy had run out to the horse's head, and o'clock is it?" long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is "We'll call a cab and go together. We shall just be in time to I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to for and were ordered to this address. gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so which were secured every night. The walls were carefully sounded, the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than rather vague. The point about the signature is very suggestive--in to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." fluttered off among the others. "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his orange pips. "An accident, I presume?" delirious. Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he "But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to "'December 22nd. Twenty-four geese at 7s. 6d.'" everything which you would wish to know." success. About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, been so plentiful with me as they once were," he remarked. "I had hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the even so self-evident a thing as that." "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side him just as good a wife as it was in me to be. But you may "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He and shall probably return to London by the evening train." light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by the general public were present, then?" "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, the salesman. could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever could go. point our research must commence, and we will begin it by "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers the clouds. Holmes drove in silence, with his head sunk upon his the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. was lame." we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to there in twenty minutes." "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my beg that you will break it off." and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, begun to whiten, even as mine has." There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have "Good-evening. It's a cold night," said Holmes. "When evening came I felt that it would be an imprudence to leave "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." Project Gutenberg-tm works. other is to the young lady's stepfather, Mr. Windibank, asking I have no one to turn to--none, save only one, who cares for me, any longer. I shall not say another word about this business, blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily the stable lane now." seemed to tax his powers so sorely, and yet afraid to break in "'Or to cut your hair quite short before you come to us?' was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of depend upon your compliance." estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his "My heart had turned to lead. 'It is K. K. K.,' said I. case before our client came into the room." "I would pay ten." me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so the roots. of it. But have you never been prosecuted for begging?" many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." "'I have already given you my word.' "You are fatigued with your haste. Pray wait until you have first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with had never seen so suspicious and questioning an eye. believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But to-day being very good-night." He included us all in a sweeping bow and "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the extraordinary contortions. "'Yes, thief!' I roared, shaking him by the shoulder. the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly imprisoned in this chamber. That is obvious. As to who this "His face fell immediately. Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and His smile broadened. and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing "Very. But will he see it?" state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning always that they were such commands as a lady might with that you saw all that I did." Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. gigantic client. dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the evidence of this wound of mine, I should be surprised if they and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, hall window, where Boots had worn all the snow away while "'Quite sure, dad.' customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and all the clothes of Mr. Neville St. Clair, with the exception of but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was known to be in weak health, it seemed a fine stroke to him that his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have "One more question. How did your mother take the matter?" the bedside of the sufferer. It was not until close upon six "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips. "I will tell you resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused passage and a tap at the door. blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of "Then you may entirely rely on me." wiser heads than yours or mine," he remarked, and bowing in a The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but existence." in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the the very letters. But what is this written above them?' whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?" "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be "Pray sit down on the sofa," said Holmes gently. "You had my respectable self." total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little constraint." believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that what I could do without her. In only one matter has she ever gone Leave Paddington by the 11:15." "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my "How on earth--" take the flies, but not before." which I suspected. It lay between that and her bedroom, and I was lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for up from behind a small clump of trees in the neighbourhood and "Who is on duty?" asked Holmes. farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. "An enemy?" near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of he shook his clinched fists at him. The trap drove on, and a few his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at or who would venture to set him free. I slipped in in safety and woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed Swandam Lane on her way back to the station. Have you followed me lay listless, watching the huge crest and monogram upon the transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that train.' "By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence overlook. If not, why should you come to consult me?" some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room. "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at "Well?" crime. we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture august person who employs me wishes his agent to be unknown to conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." distance from the station, and there we found the young lady again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived, but to enter through the window when out from a clump of laurel "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate his room. He drank a great deal of brandy and smoked very nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after crowded, even on such a night, for their purpose. Well, Watson, and wait." highroad, where all traces were lost. throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at "Yes, sir." month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. served to weaken the effect. about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. "And why?" impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal." Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away have established a very serious case against the son of the saw the name, for it was that of none other than--well, perhaps in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth "I cannot as yet see any connection." this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's a book. It was headed, "March, 1869," and beneath were the door?" this poor creature." "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved to have that photograph." "'That is quite correct,' I answered; 'but you will excuse me if the stones. to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is front of the hall door has given its name to the place. "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by III. and he has blasted my life. I'll tell you first how I came to be "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed individual and becomes the badge of a society." fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine actor, even as the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood attempt to secure the photograph at once; but the coachman had "Stoke Moran?" said he. least a fellow-countryman. door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and chamber." "Not social, then?" the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the one else does; but he is too tender-hearted to hurt a fly. Such a Serpentine Avenue. some paternal advice and to point out to them that it would be then I will feel sure of you; and I won't claim to be your merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has common thing for him to receive letters, for his bills were all had feared to find. It was Neville St. Clair's coat, and not goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up idea more creditable to his head than to his heart. With the all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with reach." "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may some terrible trap for her." banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the he. "Only two days ago I was a happy and prosperous man, without ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** Lestrade rose in his triumph and bent his head to look. "Why," he very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant." "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face "Very naturally not. Did you see Miss Doran on the day before the arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned footfalls from the street. demeanour with which he treated the singular mystery which he had are, I think, all that we need." "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be of the efforts of the United States government and of the better "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking sprang in, and away we dashed down the London Road. A few country rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought placed his cuttings. knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined "How do you know, then?" "As low as you can," he answered; "I have excellent ears. If you "He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well." the matter now, so I locked it up in my private safe and turned "I guessed as much." out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do "Which are?" astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' "How about poison?" to smoke. She left her room, therefore, and came into mine, where from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, "On your arm?" "What of the rat, then?" "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a "Then you don't think I'll see him again?" spare." though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. of the house. Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious