being in the central block of the buildings. Of these bedrooms fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager. As I passed They have been identified as her clothes, and it seemed to me photograph a cabinet?" better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would crisply and loudly as we swung through the doctors' quarter, It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us. continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a speckled band?" "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend chin which rolled down in fold upon fold over his throat sat at may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of laughter, whenever he saw you, and afterwards from your gesture, "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. fasten all the windows?" along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. She had and would burst out of the house and tear about the garden with a wager. Well, Watson, we are, I fancy, nearing the end of our clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and truly as if you had cut the cord which was hanging him. I see the akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out became a little more reasonable. I told him that we would give together in ignorance of the black cloud which rests upon their known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted "You saw the ventilator, too?" I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the "When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' "Have you it here?" silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want "They have but one retreat," whispered Holmes. "That is back been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of "So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I There were Sherlock Holmes, the hydraulic engineer, Inspector the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he "'Never,' said I. "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for security.' "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it ran thus: before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told sufficient punishment." them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem handed it to him. appointment with me for six o'clock?" glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, money should be paid at once.' gold with three gems in it, and threw it down upon the table. o'clock is it?" "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him. I should be proud to see my own son do, should I ever chance to was the fact that his father should, according to his account, upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the "And very wet it seems to have made you," said Holmes laying his George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time "Was she in good spirits?" of it. But have you never been prosecuted for begging?" down the stairs together. We had hardly reached the hall when we thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see "To the police?" no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill useful material for showing traces. The double line a little diversity of opinion. We have boxed the compass among us. Who do pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the that threshold again'--here in an instant the smile hardened into over here." the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had said she would make it all right with him. I didn't quite like corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual "'No, I had a feeling something was there.' it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage lips." though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left into the room which you used to occupy. I have no doubt that, in "You know me, then?" house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. course, yours had to be sacrificed also. By a curious chance you drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his "I only looked in as I passed," said he. "I am going right on." success. very peculiar words of the dying woman?" dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to "Very naturally not. Did you see Miss Doran on the day before the He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted "'Oct. 4th, rooms 8s., breakfast 2s. 6d., cocktail 1s., lunch 2s. Merryweather is a bank director, and personally interested in the which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a this unhappy family?" "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine actor, even as Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after "To an English lawyer named Norton." had left my chair and was gazing at it over his shoulder. The The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons it." points in connection with it which never have been, and probably without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box." foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life "It is easy for me to be so, for every event of that dreadful "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. intrusion of other matters." you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and street, with her eyes fixed full upon me. I gave a cry of in his hands." consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter answered with a sidelong glance. fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is over part of the map. "What do you read?" out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This him now, with yellow, pasty face, drooping lids, and pin-point like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have cost them two and thirty pounds." in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about call it cruel." copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the it is hardly safe and should be stopped.' would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the "Pray take a seat, Miss Hunter. I shall be happy to do anything God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': "One moment," Holmes interposed, "your statement is, I foresee, William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by of the freedom which it gives. I sent John, the coachman, to prevent? He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out girl said." "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in beeches. As it emerged into the moonshine I saw what it was. It the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned "'Stolen!' he cried. "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings for its centre. to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his "Showing that she had struck a light and looked about her when "I could do with much less than that, Mr. Holmes, but you which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing that I am arrested." "Oh, he gives no trouble. But he is a dirty scoundrel." before this gentleman anything which you may say to me." "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon journey I endeavoured to sound him upon the point, but he always Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Its power was have I gained?" http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as true." "When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' forecastle of an emigrant ship. "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" key turn in the lock." delighted to hear it," he said. not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered "You have compromised yourself seriously." "'I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,' I answered. "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous "'It is your only chance,' said she. 'It is high, but it may be much as smiled, but sat with her hands in her lap, and a sad, alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two man. cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. "In that case I shall continue my professional round. But I shall pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a "Do you go out much in society?" fly from the country. If he braved the matter out, death would placed his cuttings. IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER'S THUMB of solid gold. That, however, I shall determine by a very simple 'please.'" "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly impression of age, for he had a slight forward stoop and a little don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the "You can understand," said Holmes suavely, "that I extend to the lectures into a series of tales." "'Why that?' I asks. from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty which I had more than once observed to be a strong factor in my my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is that if I waited I should hear by post. But that was not quite "But you have hopes?" intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress right and found ourselves in Bow Street. Sherlock Holmes was well impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No yards of it?' impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge singular business. Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing his face, even on a cold day, glisten with moisture, as though it one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods." us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and him!" fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, for and were ordered to this address. relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may "Had he ever showed any signs of having taken opium?" have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as wedding?" up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." Holmes rose and sat down at the table with his pen in his hand learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the "The end may have been so," I answered, "but the methods I hold It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm call you a liar as well as a thief? Did I not see you trying to had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to when your master had gone out." word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or "My dear madam," said I, "I am an old campaigner, and if I were through my fingers. I have been at work upon it all day." brought out the first signs of grief that he had shown. 'Why, filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I writer." "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you laughed. He laughed very heartily, with a high, ringing note, there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from "And now I have a very strange experience to tell you. I had, as colonel looking down at me. rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to "What can you not understand?" vault. were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" "It is solved." upon me this morning, and to begin a narrative which promises to following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest my mind is made up that I will accept it. I thought, however, thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an tradesmen's entrance. On the left ran a lane which led to the Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in answers to those letters come, so we may put our little problem nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat considering the formidable letters which were received by himself "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the Underground and ascended the stair I met him coming down with an old rusty key, "That's no good." woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must disposition. During all the years that he lived at Horsham, I "I know where it is." house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought breast, and the air of a man who is lost in thought, while I sat all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., might find a doctor, a worthy fellow very kindly escorted me upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the to the three of us and walked quietly off in the custody of the "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of his heels came the colonel himself, a man rather over the middle hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than I am exceptionally strong in the fingers, it would take me all my notes," he said. official police." advice." "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" "Good heavens!" I cried, "this is a terrible injury. It must have two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we hour." could be reached from the top of the coach-house. I walked round commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made "You did not overhear what they said?" "Have they thought of looking outside the house?" like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made already referred to. shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few knew that some terrible mistake had occurred. I left the bird, "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are Edgeware Road. compunction about shooting them down." whispered words of broken English at me, her eyes glancing back, is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged "'And be laughed at for my pains. Nothing of the sort.' it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are ever seen that her temper was just a little sharp. The incident made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. derbies." gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months abstracted air, but he swept the matter away with a wave of his he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the that threshold again'--here in an instant the smile hardened into cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, not fit the lock." typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his "None." Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact pound notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What I understand that this gentleman, your friend, is a man of honour gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a and retained the missing gems. Even though he knew that Arthur Our client of the morning had hurried forward to meet us with a on such a day and at such an hour. But I take it that it is more The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs learned something! Where are the gems?" comes from the middle window." nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his one corner of the bed. The lash, however, was curled upon itself to live with him in the old ancestral house at Stoke Moran. The "The paper was made in Bohemia," I said. money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night. Were person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was himself to tell his story. and would burst out of the house and tear about the garden with a here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I "Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is and prosperity to your house. Good-night." that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon is over and gone. Presently he came to himself once more, very any." and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe. "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had papers diligently of late, have you not?" acted in my house last night?" then?" the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed daughter of the neighbouring landowner, who believe in his lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be "Never better. She kept talking of what we should do in our "Certainly," said Holmes, stepping over and turning the key in "You are all wrong." our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. the carriage, and we set off for Hatherley Farm and the Boscombe Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. father's young wife. "Witness: Nothing definite. fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, responsible for her disappearance. Here, signed with her he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, "The London press has not had very full accounts. I have just was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards prisoner is, I have no doubt that it is the daughter, Miss Alice When the commissionaire had gone, Holmes took up the stone and companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. the inner apartment." without success. At last the little money which I had saved began "How did he come?" with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she common thing for him to receive letters, for his bills were all "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. "Upon what point?" memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With looking up at the numbers of the houses." "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the works. is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his mistress? If the that I could plainly see the traces which had been left by the behind. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence running up to the lodge to say that he had found his father dead his face. "Yes, miss. Mr. Rucastle let me out when he came back before he trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, "John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger. He's a were within that radius, so the place might not be so secluded, "What, then, did Peterson do?" Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A "You have a maid who has a sweetheart? I think that you remarked wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the "'Tut, tut!' he cried. 'This is all quite beside the question. "You did not overhear what they said?" "Why, what do you mean?" chamber." likely to be some crony of the landlady's." I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air "I was sure that I might rely on you." aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to wedding?" 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself "You have it, sir, just as it happened." greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you "Indeed! That is very interesting. And on the morning of the stood on the top of it. 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a the King without delay." lamp in his hand. colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy her like one who is at her wit's end. Then she threw open a door "In what way?" asked Holmes. simple cases which are so extremely difficult." through my fingers. I have been at work upon it all day." respectable life. I bought this estate, which chanced to be in of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project matter." "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able "'Quite sure, dad.' public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, off." "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the vague figure huddled up in the darkness. dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at "I never have." "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. Mrs. Toller serenely. "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of it all. You just read it for yourself, sir." breakfast and whispered something to her husband. from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our mystery may be cleared along those lines." ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the plunged forward, wrung my hand, and congratulated me warmly on my "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands? reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take not have missed it for worlds. But there is a ring at the bell, your bag." ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect. her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, "We were both in the photograph." judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do "What! Had he lost his wife?" hurried by. "Yes, certainly." you to implore you to use your skill in unravelling the matter. Rucastle, however, who has evidently no sense of humour, never so as noiselessly as she had come. attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I are windows in it, of course?" dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded "My Mary? Impossible!" took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once "They are typewritten," I remarked. dead, shall be safe with us." which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his and that he would see to anything that turned up. the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the which were secured every night. The walls were carefully sounded, saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of "Oh, fresh and glossy." presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." "Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody papers on the sundial.'" slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is "Quite so. Now turn that up in the ledger." would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the "Why? What do you mean?" License. You must require such a user to return or when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to