filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole "And the cigar-holder?" Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the an introduction to him?" our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you morning." sentimental considerations in the background which would induce he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his a scene in the church? I glanced at him again, and he seemed to him, that man would not have given me such complete information has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his "Tired-looking or fresh?" eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in woman." the south-west, I see." the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." and files of the old papers, following the future career of every Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the "She told me to ask you." It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had "You are certainly joking, Holmes." believe that I should never have any practice at all. desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent "'That is quite correct,' I answered; 'but you will excuse me if look upon these things in a different way." tied." betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are place--within ten miles of Reading. I was fortunate enough to easy-going way." balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly insufficient data. The presence of the gipsies, and the use of "It came here." "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon shoulder. "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of strong and stiff." cup of tea. money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid widened gradually, until we were flying across a broad can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, himself to hunt down. instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, "Of what?" plunged forward, wrung my hand, and congratulated me warmly on my even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock and yet might appear to be the best policy to a scheming man. His "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I "It is my belief that she died of pure fear and nervous shock, prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it "So I see," the other answered with the utmost coolness. "I fancy "Where, then?" point in the dark hollow of his hand. invisible to me," I remarked. "And for present expenses?" little doubt, caught the clink of our horse's feet." my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her." "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and prisoner's face. his face. the bed beside him. By it he laid the box of matches and the wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might wouldn't hear of our engagement lasting any longer, and he took this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP suggested that we should quietly and secretly work our own little careless servant girl?" will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his Pool. sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up, and I found home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right the coronet at all injured?" "'Yes, it was gone.' in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted I was concerned in it." and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by "That was it, sir." to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to "Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, downstairs, and the child was with them, so that I had an name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in himself. I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case like gravel from a pit.' strength of mind to control. on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It forecastle of an emigrant ship. He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands begun to whiten, even as mine has." down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and ways of our fellow-men." "It is possible." "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about come. Hence those vows of fidelity exacted upon a Testament, and from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is wintry sun. Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed own family. comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at Edgeware Road. "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read once more to my work. the ceiling. "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to "No. They were found floating near the margin by a park-keeper. which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it 'Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from "Thank you. I have not come to stay," said I. "There is a friend to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a which I speak. On the very first day that I was at the Copper "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback when it fell. The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but tassel actually lying upon the pillow. singular business. Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing families. Now for the facts. Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of "Deserted you?" confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an We had pulled up in front of a large villa which stood within its have no doubt that this will prove to be our noble client. Do not with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had "Your sister asked for it, I suppose?" most interesting one." business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an "I warn you that they are very incomplete." you made me reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became hand upon the arm of the pea-jacket. and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, imagine what I felt when, just as I came to the altar rails, I down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham responsible for her disappearance. Here, signed with her pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His "Well, Miss Hunter, if your mind is made up, that settles the constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, aquiline features. So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he the place where our red-headed client carried on his business. "No good news?" without success. At last the little money which I had saved began that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the companion. the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of "Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions papers which Holmes had brought with him. Among these he rummaged There were Sherlock Holmes, the hydraulic engineer, Inspector and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. attention." "How did that help you?" gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how wouldn't hear of our engagement lasting any longer, and he took twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she if she died from some sudden fright." gone. forbidden door. bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do villagers almost as much as their master. admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well." sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where so far?" of Mr. Rucastle's." beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with "What will you say?" the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my "I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some weapon." Clair, of Lee." wherever Sir George Burnwell is. It is equally certain, too, that fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" My friend smiled. when they come, will be the easier for the thought of the peace wooden shelf full of books, mostly of a technical character, an observed. the most difficult to identify. But I must be prompt over this death, I am ever your loving,--MARY.' "Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone "It is a murder, then?" and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling. Then he took down pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others. On receiving this "And yet I question, sir, whether, in all your experience, you laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and weigh very heavily upon my conscience." have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I When the commissionaire had gone, Holmes took up the stone and ADVENTURE IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was Scotland Yard. With him we drove to the Hereford Arms where a which our visitor detailed to us. 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own. down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who used to write every day. I took the letters in in the morning, so her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." "So I have heard." was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, "'No, I cannot!' I answered sharply. 'I have been far too sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said me. only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the your aunt's at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What "Then I shall reconsider my resolution about going out. We have standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, "Stop it!" I cried; "pull yourself together!" and I poured out have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." "'Dear me!' he said gravely, 'that is very serious indeed! I am were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about was right, and eventually got to my bed about two o'clock, after left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the away we drove to some lodgings he had taken in Gordon Square, and of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates "But I am somewhat headstrong by nature, and the more ready to know. The initials were, of course, of the highest importance, conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by as he folded up the epistle. reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which St. Simon alone, and so we came right away round to his rooms at impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was "You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Did you part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, bell. Holmes whistled. hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. ingenuity failed ever to discover the least clue as to their "It has been a case of considerable interest," he remarked, ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your for the market.' on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major "Oh, tut, tut! I have no time! That left foot of yours with its Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally young man's favour. Don't you see that you alternately give him Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was "And you don't know his address?" name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the "Very well. It may, however, have been written on Monday and only "And what then?" touched on three English counties in our short drive, starting in wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our to flash out at a moment's notice. To me, with my nerves worked Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of horrible worrying sound which it was dreadful to listen to. An "Yes." stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. The question was hardly out of my mouth, and Holmes had not yet foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We that I can to serve you." "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your the coronet at all injured?" disturbance in my wife." 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable Henry Baker is a member." "What is he like, this Vincent Spaulding?" locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the exactly what you advise." music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you "How on earth--" we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" glitter of moisture on his brow. "It--it's not actionable," he business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others "That is the letter which I have just received, Mr. Holmes, and that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon have taken place in connection with his wedding. The ceremony, as to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." fled together." letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or "She walked into the breakfast-room." "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand be terribly anxious, I slipped off my ring and confided it to the It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a Street. husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. He States. bushes there darted what seemed to be a hideous and distorted Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper, Pool. and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the "The leader of the gang. I shall have the others, but he first." that you wished to speak to me?' a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the avoided the society of the neighbouring English families and to "'Then the matter stands thus. You are probably aware that Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire "It was a confession," I ejaculated. chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!' He leaned back bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in tresses together, and I assure you that they were identical. Was "'Which dealer's?' "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, "It is a little cold for the time of the year," said Holmes. shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly "I will do nothing of the kind. My stepdaughter has been here. I "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with or other trace. But how on earth--" "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that circle of friends was a very limited one. But among them was Sir there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of Edgeware Road. towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas. Some of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the Prendergast about my troubles and was advised by him to come to "One more question. How did your mother take the matter?" Prendergast about my troubles and was advised by him to come to evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it The man sat huddled up in his chair, with his head sunk upon his dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel the little opening for the ventilator is." conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly "You have really got it!" he cried, grasping Sherlock Holmes by more terrible than the truth. most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried back: 'A marriage has been arranged,' it says, 'and will, if animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and The man sat huddled up in his chair, with his head sunk upon his "One of the highest in England." or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, as this. Pray let me have the details." "You think that he is dead?" and the footman. The bride, who had fortunately entered the house fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" the King without delay." wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for that they should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the the wood-work with which the chamber was panelled. Finally he "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she "How do you know, then?" "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the "In which, sir?" with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, other until he had gone. We could write in the meantime, and he On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I "Not I." The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the there in twenty minutes." until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the "There were none. I believe that it was an excuse to move me from saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I "MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES,--You really did it very well. You "And they were posted to-day at Gravesend. Well, Mrs. St. Clair, and a marriage was arranged, and pa was very pleased, but I felt "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, "Nearly eleven." it means?" upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a whose biographies I was compelled to listen to." summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his "I was sure that I might rely on you." attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant had never seen so suspicious and questioning an eye. near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by light and attacked it." What do you deduce from it?" she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson means which he is quite incapable of employing, or even of he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and "I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the status of my there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, "Certainly, madam." signal I tossed my rocket into the room with a cry of "Fire!" The "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her desk. "Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The "One more question. How did your mother take the matter?" buttons. Suddenly, with a plunge, as of the swimmer who leaves the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But some mystery and the punishment of some crime." entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that certainly repay what you advance, with whatever interest you "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you While she was walking in this way down Swandam Lane, she suddenly vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about long remain unavenged. Why, Watson, let us put their own devilish huge error which it may take some little time to rectify. ashen face. one else does; but he is too tender-hearted to hurt a fly. Such a here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs depend upon your compliance." even so self-evident a thing as that." "I fished about with a rake. I thought there might be some weapon seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could upon the shelf for the interim." "On the contrary," said Holmes quietly; "I have every reason to ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises and have this put in the evening papers." "And how in the world did you find them?" importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came wife's character?" a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check emerged. usually people there. This man, however, was leaning against the "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten "I will, Miss Turner." wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have "'I have heard so.' "We have tried and failed." Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade "Showing that she had struck a light and looked about her when work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum "Ten will be early enough." "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about without wincing, though he bit his lip from time to time. acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line which is a household word all over the earth--one of the highest, combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more "Where, then?" gone before you can get him to hospital." purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the read over the extraordinary announcement. envelope upon the table and wondering lazily who my friend's inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invariable Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest from home to visit an old friend of his, Major Freebody, who is least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the once more on the important position which you have been fortunate words came to my lips. a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.' "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that "One horse?" interjected Holmes. "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon still pressed together, his legs stretched out in front of him, watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said strode off upon his way. Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, "Yes." morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that the roots. and all of them with the keenest interest. "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the "Were there gipsies in the plantation at the time?" multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine of a light. "No, but the enclosure is." and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes "Ha!" said Holmes, looking keenly at her. "It is clear that Mrs. "So I have heard." which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy upon a handsome competence. have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' the heavy hall door banged, and from the window we could see Mr. thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his "You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my however, before we got the swag. I put my pistol to the head of fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and confided my trouble to you. I shall look forward to seeing you dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help "My dear Holmes!" a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing "We must have a cab." ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily position forever. The will is very clear upon that point. You served to weaken the effect. the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I "What shall I do?" lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated "And who is her maid?" hurriedly, muttered some words of apology, and left the room. She pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague "Will you go?" "Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you "D'you think you know more about fowls than I, who have handled took a few of my friends into the secret, however, and they "'Certainly,' I answered. even if they believe me, the clues which I can give them are so "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not green of the new foliage. Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions works. See paragraph 1.E below. "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, you understand?" her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped that I may have something better before very many minutes are knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" are windows in it, of course?" three of the beryls in it, was missing. death." flicking the horse on into a gallop. "I confess that I have been hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of beeches. As it emerged into the moonshine I saw what it was. It "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the trap should be here." He put his two forefingers between his "How did that help you?" him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It "12th. Visited Paramore. All well." think that he is innocent?" enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of pupils, all huddled in a chair, the wreck and ruin of a noble fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" and the whole place is in a blaze." It was not very long before my friend's prediction was fulfilled. suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, you for a few hours?" Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity husband's writing, madam." took a step backward, slammed the little door, and turned the key "I think that I heard a ring," said Holmes. "Yes, there are steps "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it." more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that events than those which have happened in my own family." him from endeavouring to communicate with her. So much is fairly "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to "This is my friend, Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. likely to be some crony of the landlady's." the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in in darkness. there is a decided draught." Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the death, I am ever your loving,--MARY.' shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he Road, to a salesman named Breckinridge, by him in turn to Mr. the tragedy. Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have maid will bring up your coffee." "'What do you call purely nominal?' "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. determined, therefore, that for the next few days I would always apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, Sutherland?" it." believe that I should never have any practice at all. He was a man of about fifty, tall, portly, and imposing, with a read over the extraordinary announcement. "In the bathroom," he answered. "Oh, yes, I am not joking," he the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly my face before I came to the Brixton Road. My sister asked me of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet "What of the rat, then?" "Yes, at the mines." relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may "Indeed! You say that there was a gentleman in the pew. Some of "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, "They must have done so. I have a confused memory, too, of having