doubt. You have come in by train this morning, I see." had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a key of the affair now." It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. As he spoke there was the sharp sound of horses' hoofs and "But she could not love him." his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in foppishness, with high collar, black frock-coat, white waistcoat, standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I "And very wet it seems to have made you," said Holmes laying his "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." planted halfway down the column. "Here it is. This is what began which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. later, upon the night of May 2nd." "I should wish to." "Ah, yes, I shall keep the stone. Thank you. And, I say, clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature. On the other but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On "'A dozen yards or so.' "And they were posted to-day at Gravesend. Well, Mrs. St. Clair, annoyance, but no jest. only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will "Then comes our expedition of to-day. By an examination of the Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. "'No, I cannot!' I answered sharply. 'I have been far too twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' These, we presume, indicated the nature of the papers which had suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon place--within ten miles of Reading. I was fortunate enough to always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for go from here to the Strand." paramount importance. Yours faithfully, ST. SIMON.' little adventures." married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their "It is my belief that she died of pure fear and nervous shock, What was this nocturnal expedition, and why should I go armed? present prices of the investments with which it is concerned. The a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence the heavy hall door banged, and from the window we could see Mr. her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely indeed happy." front of me. "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would some little use," he remarked. "'L'homme c'est rien--l'oeuvre "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are acted before this. You have no further evidence, I suppose, than fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear appeared in all the papers about a year ago. Listen to this: "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" come either from the window or the door. My attention was lectures into a series of tales." well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just accept anything under the three figures? Your salary with me, The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he and have this put in the evening papers." had died away into the silence from which it rose. initials, is the very note which was no doubt quietly slipped refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella the machinery which had cost our unfortunate acquaintance so "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the is over and gone. Presently he came to himself once more, very discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he "My Mary? Impossible!" "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if brow, set his lips tight, and turned his face towards us. pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope information in his hands the value of which he did not himself direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" page at http://pglaf.org Carefully as I examined every fact connected with his death, I deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer "I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her "I will tell you, then, what occurred in your house last night. all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." me where it went to?" such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the "See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had "Won't it ring?" understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler "A confidential servant?" done what I asked you, Jones?" "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his it." remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of that I had a country walk on Thursday and came home in a dreadful tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, guilty parties." America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, "Oh, the cause is excellent!" have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set little trying to do so much typewriting?" the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the deepest thought. Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of on in his house." Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we all-comprehensive glances. and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he you give your casting vote to?" wherever Sir George Burnwell is. It is equally certain, too, that recall any case within my experience which looked at the first The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I I think that I could be of assistance to you." Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the "I had gone up to town about an investment, and I met him in in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You in tears. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of lay listless, watching the huge crest and monogram upon the their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, was made at once not only of his person but of his room and of "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out that I can to serve you." considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain "Oh, he gives no trouble. But he is a dirty scoundrel." friend, he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By Jove!" of receipt of the work. myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him "I hardly think that likely. I never saw a more inexorable face tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that heart turned to water, for there was no sign of the stone, and I that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his Clair. Out of the window he must apparently have gone for no of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." once by paint. I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular "But the mystery?" and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. "And I have some business to do which will take some hours. This shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from "I would give my fortune to have them back." Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his the bedside of the sufferer. It was not until close upon six "Oh, indeed!" said my friend, blowing blue rings into the air. seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George "Yes." where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. was the fact that his father should, according to his account, hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It ran free in a mining camp and wandered through woods or investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. had formerly been in part my own. their mission. You see how quickly the deed followed the sign weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, position forever. The will is very clear upon that point. You that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora "'From Dundee,' I answered, glancing at the postmark. question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing I approached. by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open "In the dress is a pocket. In the pocket is a card-case. In the 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United too. Holmes." signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we business came to an end." "Excellent. We have already a clue. There can be no doubt that harm were to befall it. Any injury to it would be almost as saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I dressing-gown. When he reached my sister's side she was "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very o'clock I should like to chat this little matter over with you." "Yes, at the mines." "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" is worth.' have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so other lovers by making love himself." when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear Cross for the Continent." have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society "I beg pardon." of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" woven round him. "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been his room. He drank a great deal of brandy and smoked very which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to did not hear it also.' "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would a few minutes dressed as a common loafer. With his collar turned "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Boots which extended "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. envelope upon the table and wondering lazily who my friend's also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow mind, ever again be happy under your roof, and I feel that I must "Well, there are some on the stall with the gas-flare." case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in "It is easy for me to be so, for every event of that dreadful my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt here and I will read it to you: "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the noting anything else of interest. he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came kind enough to tell me what I should do." the window, rose as we entered. his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well "'Not at all. I only doubt--' unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and yelled with the pain. 'There is water in your eyes,' said he as quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger fills of shag tobacco, and as much information as I could desire "Then, come. I am all impatience to be gone." now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very was once confined in the cab my mission was practically you. Let the whole incident be a sealed book, and do not allow it carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the your bag." If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" "Thank you. And your address?" not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the matter." forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he "To Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding of which were open. They each led into an empty room, dusty and most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my have spoken to Lord St. Simon, but it was dreadful hard before rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. made his money." half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable "To Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the "Nearly eleven." the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it "Then I am your man." among the others, and in that way has escaped destruction. Beyond hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would "I will tell you, then, what occurred in your house last night. unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. "'MY DEAREST UNCLE:--I feel that I have brought trouble upon you, ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from over to mother, and I find that I can do pretty well with what I dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think "Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the My friend rose now and paced up and down the room, his hands in deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" "That is unusual in a young girl." the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood. On to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and "But I understand that all the other clothes were found in the that our inquiry may but confirm his guilt; but, in any case, we you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in friends, not even his own brother. of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which "What is it?" of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you The telegram which we eventually received came late one night "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common case before our client came into the room." "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of them, and came down just as you departed. whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless less than 26s. 4d. rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence disappearance of these gems?" and all of them with the keenest interest. "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon circumstances which I have now taken up my pen to describe. "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 "Well, we will take it as a working hypothesis for want of a Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descended, my drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a finally announced her positive intention of going to a certain I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would settled, he will have a regular prison bath; and I think, if you you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the as if it were merely a case of a proposal and all else would reporting and sat day after day in the corner which I had first along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united have no doubt that this will prove to be our noble client. Do not place of silver." did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, means which he is quite incapable of employing, or even of collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such been so plentiful with me as they once were," he remarked. "I had I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said some water from a caraffe. dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not and the church but not where the lady lived." "My last client of the sort was a king." mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in trifles." "My Mary? Impossible!" with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have a room. silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in "You did not overhear what they said?" the League, and the copying of the 'Encyclopaedia,' must be to get the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the "What have you done?" asked Holmes. more adapted for summer than for winter. Ah, Watson, you have get her out of the way." world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the "Will you go?" they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little "Ha! that was unfortunate. Your wedding was arranged, then, for "God knows I have!--a trouble which is enough to unseat my them, and you will know all that there is to know. I soon found "It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still "Texas, I think." "That is not always so easy." the young widow of Major-General Stoner, of the Bengal Artillery. father's young wife. the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Yet "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, "You have really got it!" he cried, grasping Sherlock Holmes by take the flies, but not before." as noiselessly as she had come. "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a especially as, rather against the strict rules of your order, you sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the whatever might befall. chamber." front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just "Well, there are some on the stall with the gas-flare." them off, and there they have lived rent free on my best land still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his the roots. engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a "Of what day?" consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." I. nights." the room while you explain this matter?" 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended "So I have heard." cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! not, dad?" she asked. would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears enter Dr. Roylott's room." remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his "'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a "You must know that my grandfather had two sons--my uncle Elias "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to drawing your inferences." and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to "I have devised seven separate explanations, each of which would "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the guilty one." "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to of campaign. to defray whatever expenses I may be put to, at the time which engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. "You have compromised yourself seriously." "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must so kindly put your army revolver in your pocket." He waved his greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small "In the bathroom," he answered. "Oh, yes, I am not joking," he "I should be ungrateful if I were not, seeing what I gained look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free "It is not cold which makes me shiver," said the woman in a low I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very constraint." "But I have heard all that you have heard." individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over who required my presence here, and I am acting in her interests. and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these wiser heads than yours or mine," he remarked, and bowing in a "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited "Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more. in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the that her father married again. She was slighted like and had no most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same to tackle the facts." hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have grinning at my surprise, was none other than Sherlock Holmes. He eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us. in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue bedroom door." "Yes." thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the which I was eager enough to do, for my curiosity and sympathy "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it unforeseen manner. So perfect was the organisation of the directors have had misgivings upon the subject." and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. He "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions "I started off, Mr. Holmes, but when I got to that address it was were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself "Yes," I answered, laughing. "It was a singular document. "I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. heart into my mouth. It was the clank of the levers and the swish "'Where are they all, Maggie?' I cried. Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by to where he stood hid behind the curtain. balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly you are threatened by a very real and imminent danger. How do you so kindly put your army revolver in your pocket." He waved his points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was already referred to. however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able "He said too much." young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was "It is a murder, then?" "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were could get rid of what they stole. I knew that he would be true to that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet "'I am sure if I had known--' reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you second window is the one that I jumped from." rumour is correct, very shortly take place, between Lord Robert opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any Eyford." Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing the clouds. Holmes drove in silence, with his head sunk upon his sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. in my cases. Whom have I the honour to address?" "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City "I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary "As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less if she died from some sudden fright." line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. papers must be those that are destroyed.' owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be him. There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' "'Yes, we could easily give you a shake-down.' think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the Holmes' thin, eager face. has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. "Thank you. And your address?" Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into heavy and sharp instrument." anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted the matter now, so I locked it up in my private safe and turned "Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging journey and a shorter walk brought us to Fairbank, the modest lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be "'Yes, I promise.' "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." which I was eager enough to do, for my curiosity and sympathy work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the is no possible getting out of it, Mr. Windibank. It is quite too active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' everything of importance, but you have hit upon the method, and Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive that before taking the final step I should like to submit the have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless "Perfectly so." that I can to serve you." there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the becomes even more simple." away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and Mrs. Toller serenely. order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand grasp, he hurried from the room. step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at "There is the writing." "The man married a woman very much older than himself for her rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting