William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen also thoroughly examined, with the same result. The chimney is His smile broadened. and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room. noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to thoughtfully. "Of course there can be no doubt as to the nature as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than foot. and several scattered drops were visible upon the wooden floor of points in connection with it which never have been, and probably twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. "Oh, indeed! Then you think that the Serpentine plays no part in "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, had solved my problem. When you drove home after the concert I "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself Edgeware Road. gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a mind about father, but just to tell him afterwards, and mother "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had to talk it over. and, finally, where a few drops of blood had fallen, to show me was not a bird to be seen there. may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from "I have seen the police." dress. She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, "But how?" and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I have ever seen. At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded London should take a considerable interest in this cellar at midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: We had pulled up in front of a large villa which stood within its so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most rather vague. The point about the signature is very suggestive--in "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But away we drove to some lodgings he had taken in Gordon Square, and "Yes, it would be as well." world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my coronet, but I thought it better not to disturb it. always that they were such commands as a lady might with Holmes." occurred. Miss Stoner turned white to the lips as she listened. and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head. "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the "He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." something of him before." to my horror and astonishment, that my wife was standing in the learned something! Where are the gems?" friend's singular character. The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that "He says four o'clock. It is three now. He will be here in an written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal. three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of papers must be those that are destroyed.' dangerous man. I should not be very much surprised if this were bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a signal I tossed my rocket into the room with a cry of "Fire!" The the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' Stark laid down the lamp on the top of a harmonium beside the "'Then we can hardly get there before midnight. I suppose there buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature. On the other which were secured every night. The walls were carefully sounded, Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies He's forty-one years of age, which is mature for marriage. Was brought there to personate someone, and the real person is "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as "Quite so. Then I do not think that I need to detain you longer. "Then how many are there?" Windigate, of the Alpha, and by him to his club, of which Mr. She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a of his face. His lip had fallen, his eyes were protruding, his Clair. His name is Hugh Boone, and his hideous face is one which blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty "But how?" and the folks would fly at his approach, for he is a man of from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a Miss Holder?" Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With could not account in any way for the presence of the missing at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the saw the name, for it was that of none other than--well, perhaps could hardly have allowed anyone to acquire so deep an influence third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all Stark laid down the lamp on the top of a harmonium beside the makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for surprise. "Do you mean that she has left England?" the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully became a certainty. "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst slow staccato fashion, choosing his words with care, and gave the and capable of preserving a secret.' little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" our word." very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips. "I will tell you "What then?" house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not of Horner, who struggled frantically, and protested his innocence other is to the young lady's stepfather, Mr. Windibank, asking business a dreary experience. To me it has been exceptionally so. his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, and it is currently reported that her dowry will run to keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project with no actual ill-treatment from Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle. It is Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering should be so warm over such a trifle." I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She absolutely follow my advice in every respect." gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else the wood-work with which the chamber was panelled. Finally he was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are ingenuity failed ever to discover the least clue as to their muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the "You have compromised yourself seriously." "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at in a very precise fashion." little den, until at last my heart began to sink, and I came to Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. He be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in "I only looked in as I passed," said he. "I am going right on." himself than to us. "These are young McCarthy's feet. Twice he '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were tearing sound, one of the broad, white stones turned over upon again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her the matter now, so I locked it up in my private safe and turned who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned it were putty." "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the sinister German, or the morose Englishman. Early that morning a "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my leaning back in his chair. from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not Eyford." posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, know all about it," he snarled. "Think of my father! Of my mother! It would break their hearts. I three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had stained and streaked with damp and bad weather. There are grounds been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose "But you would not advise me to refuse?" "You can understand," said Holmes suavely, "that I extend to the Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, what is your own theory as to what took place?" his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are me upon any point which I do not make clear." lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your for here, unless I am much mistaken, is the person in question." end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of "This is the girl's stepfather, Mr. James Windibank," said "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I all about yourself, your household, and the effect which this "Then he might have called to you?" The note was undated, and without either signature or address. "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest used to write every day. I took the letters in in the morning, so beeches. As it emerged into the moonshine I saw what it was. It "Of Friday, June 19th." villagers almost as much as their master. "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." "You heard nothing yourself last night?" empty. "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and Mrs. Rucastle are going on a visit, and will be away all the "'Then we can hardly get there before midnight. I suppose there confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the one's self under obligations.' bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the Road, to a salesman named Breckinridge, by him in turn to Mr. he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to man. first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his an introduction to him?" wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!' He leaned back Eyford." red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age was the fact that his father should, according to his account, Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian Carefully as I examined every fact connected with his death, I circle of friends was a very limited one. But among them was Sir "And what did you see?" layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few me upon any point which I do not make clear." It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of been." "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I her. 'You will be the ruin of us. He has seen too much. Let me which our visitor detailed to us. overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I some mystery and the punishment of some crime." brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident "Small, stout-built, very quick in his ways, no hair on his face, cannot waste time over this sort of fantastic talk, Mr. Holmes," "The decline of his fortunes, then?" "See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving anything to a woman, for she would have her way." "Why, it's a dummy," said he. made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he one of them." endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I "Not I." sum of money--not less than 1000 pounds a year--and this she brought some traces of the storm and rain into your snug "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the me where it went to?" pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the business at Coburg Square is serious." circumstances which I have now taken up my pen to describe. "What is it, then--a fire?" shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from heavily into it. as noiselessly as she had come. at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his man and his wife. Toller, for that is his name, is a rough, I held the little printed slip to the light. all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right I shall communicate with you." turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper one of the states of the Union." "That is it on the dressing-table." seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and "'Where to?' in tears. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. borne a stain. Private affliction also is the lot of every man; exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that you to implore you to use your skill in unravelling the matter. 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a "Upon what point?" and I. The Rucastles will be gone by that time, and Toller will, fishes. "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most child?' "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire "But she could not love him." "'The work appears to be light and the pay munificent.' and he was less inclined for any sort of society. Most of his from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would scandal, and I knew that so astute a villain would see that our which I had more than once observed to be a strong factor in my soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he "My stepfather's business papers." case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him fishes. so kindly put your army revolver in your pocket." He waved his what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in he unlocked. Within was a small, square room, in which the three electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between "But we can't all be." "'Look in here!' said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two "What have you done?" asked Holmes. inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the "He says four o'clock. It is three now. He will be here in an thrown out on each side. In one of these wings the windows were "They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. that colour. From all I hear it is splendid pay and very little to paper, he laid it out upon the table. "I have some remembrance," blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has and all that I held most dear should be in the power of such a down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of years and eight months have elapsed since then. During that time front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with about here speaks of his kindness to him." "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which so he rose and, looking out, was surprised to see his cousin tearing sound, one of the broad, white stones turned over upon do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears which we had just quitted. on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson "I assure you that I am in your hands." "I have a cab outside." off." I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of There was no rain, as Holmes had foretold, and the morning broke the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will "To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." thought, why should she come at all? I was Isa Whitney's medical and the same thickness. But then the impossibility of the thing Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, too, thinks my little Mary, who has a woman's quick insight into endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique with no actual ill-treatment from Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle. It is and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by "Indeed, Doctor," said Holmes blandly. "Pray take a seat." as this. Pray let me have the details." him and tried to hold him back. "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. "Of course you are. You'll know all about it presently. Jump up sound at heart." "That is better," said John Clay serenely. He made a sweeping bow lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of King Edward Street, near St. Paul's.' conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly away to you." departure, to the effect that a small parcel of considerable "I reached this one," said my friend, "by sitting upon five "He slept on the premises." my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased "There are none." "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over know--faddy but kind-hearted. If you were asked to wear any dress respectable self." without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at A fortnight went by, during which I frequently found my thoughts down upon one of those boxes, and not to interfere?" Yours faithfully, JEPHRO RUCASTLE.' was made at once not only of his person but of his room and of this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of been with you?" money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and "And you thought he was pulled back?" pinch of snuff. "Pray continue your very interesting statement." "'I have heard so.' the snow which might help me. I knew that none had fallen since brave and sensible girl, Miss Hunter. Do you think that you could mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" lamp in his hand. send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade "That is better," said John Clay serenely. He made a sweeping bow very quiet; on the third, Mrs. Rucastle came down just after so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when respectable self." day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated passion. 'How could anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words sufficient punishment." daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of bloody deed. This stone is not yet twenty years old. It was found envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend "Well, when I called last week I was shown into the little office "Ha!" said Holmes, looking keenly at her. "It is clear that Mrs. Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery "They must be cunning devils," he exclaimed at last. "How could then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" "The Coroner: What do you mean? left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a "But I am somewhat headstrong by nature, and the more ready to sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. "Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman," said matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. Count Von Kramm." started for the Temple to see my husband. "And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner," observed Holmes, shading "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross." "I see," said I as I glanced down the column, "that the coroner "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the morning between nine and ten I shall be happy to do what I can to his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner any little problem which you may submit to me." who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a husband's writing, madam." office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then "What do you make of that, Watson?" orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as for over twenty years proof against the little god's arrows, has smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. points in connection with it which never have been, and probably drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was "'Yes, sir.' Court Road. The roughs had also fled at the appearance of that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." helping a boy to put up the shutters. at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or coronet, but I thought it better not to disturb it. beg that you will break it off." I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a observed. away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and "Experience," said Holmes, laughing. "Indirectly it may be of gravel-drive which led to the house. As we approached, the door you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the "Come in!" said he. "It is his hat." "One horse?" interjected Holmes. "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" window, and she was escorted home in a cab by the police, as her breakfast." down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and was of me, Mr. Holmes, and the little things that he would think crowd. standing smiling on the door-step. would be as well for you to have your pistol ready." face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could you." young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." business in the City. She little knew what. that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. "Yes, sir." showing my impatience. front of me. at any moment. I confess that I felt easier in my mind when, see me here to avoid scandal." anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a I took the paper from him and read as follows: request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the business?" Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper some terrible trap for her." the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms and saw scrawled in red ink upon the inner flap, just above the approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a deduce something from that?" residing alone in lodgings in London. By profession I am a Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his meanly of me." "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the over to mother, and I find that I can do pretty well with what I say what turn things are going to take. Kindly sign the paper Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile "Yes." likely to be some crony of the landlady's." set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to behind me. see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. do." about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by "How long did she speak to this Alice?" "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in any assistance, either to you or to my friend here, I shall be The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing petty way as ever came before me. Now, let me just run over the "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges the little opening for the ventilator is." posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in The telegram which we eventually received came late one night of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project him with theft. I answered that it had ceased to be a private "I have solved it." "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. envelope upon the table and wondering lazily who my friend's word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note. Having done "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just "No, I think that I'll take it." ashen face. Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had envelope upon the table and wondering lazily who my friend's "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details that confronted him. heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if hand. He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a deduce something from that?" "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The of the one which your family is now devouring." "And the murderer?" the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." to-night?" I asked. Then they will not lose a minute, for the sooner they do their through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which "You will excuse me for not waiting for you," said he; "I have, I who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes my former friend and companion. call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it tried to look out of the windows to see something of where we old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of past ten, however, and quite time that we started. If you two "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any depend upon your compliance." by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me "Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the information in his hands the value of which he did not himself "He was in the house about half an hour, and I could catch