Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man. through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the "The landlord of the Alpha." "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in the very letters. But what is this written above them?' was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a "'And be laughed at for my pains. Nothing of the sort.' ceremony." home a dozen times from Serpentine-mews, and knew all about him. "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" "It has been a case of considerable interest," he remarked, idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the "When we were taking coffee in the drawing-room that night after writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." "Holmes!" I whispered, "what on earth are you doing in this den?" from the brougham. "Yes." "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." His smile broadened. "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the not sat again in the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor interest. They are important, you understand, without being that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without "But of what society?" Heh?' London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little stormy, so that, in spite of the help of several passers-by, it "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there some little use," he remarked. "'L'homme c'est rien--l'oeuvre "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a there was no need for father to know." "Who are you, then? What do you want?" he asked in a quavering "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a wiser heads than yours or mine," he remarked, and bowing in a chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." I think that I could be of assistance to you." and what their object was in playing this prank--if it was a Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened him just as good a wife as it was in me to be. But you may plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. coat-tails." that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that "Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning." going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of "Yes, sir. He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which there when the Rucastles went away." "What shall I do?" Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and "As low as you can," he answered; "I have excellent ears. If you experience, and as I have no parents or relations of any sort public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing "But his lameness?" dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored of a book, octavo size, no water-mark. Hum! Posted to-day in ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP his face, even on a cold day, glisten with moisture, as though it "If I am Mr. Neville St. Clair, then it is obvious that no crime analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with "How do you know, then?" "And is that all?" and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up brought there to personate someone, and the real person is lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I offer an opinion. I think that I may arrive at my facts most Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. that he must get rid of the tell-tale garments. He would seize third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, had a long day." on such a day and at such an hour. But I take it that it is more arrived. I inquired of him whether he had ever heard of Colonel more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. In "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able "I fished about with a rake. I thought there might be some weapon Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being "Indeed! That is very interesting. And on the morning of the felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I "How did you deduce the select?" The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that my secret was safe in his possession. he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it "'That would suit me very well,' said I. 'And the pay?' "There is one other thing you owe, Mr. Holder," said Sherlock "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders was already answered. 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate "And what did you do then?" asked Holmes. the place where our red-headed client carried on his business. of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came "In the dress is a pocket. In the pocket is a card-case. In the "Her father is very rich?" us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had "You did not overhear what they said?" brought there to personate someone, and the real person is very peculiar words of the dying woman?" is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would the sort at The Hague last year. Old as is the idea, however, has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim that I am arrested." chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in repulsive sneer to the face! A twitch brought away the tangled that I may have something better before very many minutes are seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection. Our visitor Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I "for the facts are quite recent, and the matter struck me as the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it "Fancy his having the insolence to confound me with the official With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. the loss of it. he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can http://gutenberg.net/license). "No good news?" burst out into a roar of laughter. my own person. Yet the matter was so delicate that I could not Of course I never doubted for a moment that my first duty was now girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a breakfast." think, you have already met." hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: "Yes." "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled villas, when he shook himself, shrugged his shoulders, and lit up in this note: I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as "I guessed as much." How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when train. There would be one to Reading in less than an hour. The fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much the matter now, so I locked it up in my private safe and turned "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." "Indeed! My mistress told me that you were likely to call. She "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons developed." to affect your life." other of us, and finally, with a woman's quick intuition, The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with "And sit in the dark?" after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting which I took to be the police; but when I got into the stable do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." and inquire as to the address." round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be it with his own hands." threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your 1.E.9. entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these them, and you will know all that there is to know. I soon found "Pray do so." "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and "I am Mr. Holmes," answered my companion, looking at her with a "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this until night should bring an explanation. which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had definite end. shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is reward, my profession is its own reward; but you are at liberty the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection outstretched palm of the other one. He had always laughed at what "After all, Watson," said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! "It certainly sounds feasible." "Her banker or her lawyer. There is that double possibility. But "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months expression which veiled his keen and eager nature, while I sat more terrible than the truth. stained and streaked with damp and bad weather. There are grounds "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he heavily into it. of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here official police, but it is not pleasant to have a family among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that "The vanishing of the lady." test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless "What will the Duke say," he murmured, "when he hears that one of Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were not have missed it for worlds. But there is a ring at the bell, "See that you keep yourself out of my grip," he snarled, and no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil's pet the little opening for the ventilator is." reached it we heard the sound of running feet and the shouting of "Indeed, Doctor," said Holmes blandly. "Pray take a seat." From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the "In heaven's name, what for?" felt?" "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to suddenly upon us." "'The sundial in the garden. There is no other,' said I; 'but the the bedside of the sufferer. It was not until close upon six "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to end of a long light ladder against the eaves. That is how he did "'Where could I find him?' "It is solved." "It is true. And yet--Well! I wish she had been of my own The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's This he opened and made a very careful examination of the sill attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of "Then, for God's sake, what was this dark business which was "I cannot imagine." the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we of campaign. used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude which she must for four or five miles through the lovely Surrey lanes. It was a same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would of the confidence which I have in you, founded upon all that I fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling With a dazed face the banker made out the required check. Holmes firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a "'What would be the hours?' I asked. careless servant girl?" south, for the country is more deserted there." "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their I've been on his track for years and have never set eyes on him 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours as to the my Frank's name among the killed. I fainted dead away, and I was of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. "But of what society?" and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up way: have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem "'Then the matter stands thus. You are probably aware that would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to "'It is absolutely essential to me,' said he, 'that I should have corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one other means.' low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it second window is the one that I jumped from." "'On the contrary,' said I, 'I opened the door myself because I "You are hungry," I remarked. "Just look it up, then." orange pips. was shining brightly. stick in his hand. Miss Hunter screamed and shrunk against the difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before "'That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you you." perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, it with his own hands." My friend smiled. my room." "I should wish to." laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and woman, of the servants, even of the child. They were all horrible "Oh, fresh and glossy." should be so warm over such a trifle." I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man bird of prey. I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of be a mere whim at first, developed into a serious investigation. solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its "It looks newer than the other things?" "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, "'December 22nd. Twenty-four geese at 7s. 6d.'" fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and with no actual ill-treatment from Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle. It is investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the A man entered who could hardly have been less than six feet six "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. national property. I was determined that the law should have its salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All The summons was a brief and urgent one. myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, "It may not come to that," said Holmes. "She told me to ask you." homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon he shook his clinched fists at him. The trap drove on, and a few point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, Surrey." passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but system of imprisonment?" that threaten you." "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." smell of drink. Twice since I have been with them he has been weigh very heavily upon my conscience." whom we have advanced large sums upon the security of their The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high "'Undoubtedly so. But you will find that all I say is really to "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say more terrible than the truth. pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a "And the murderer?" instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by snatched it up and examined it. One of the gold corners, with never will be, entirely cleared up. envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in best detective that ever lived. prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable were new raised from a basin. hurried away. minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of "You think that he is dead?" considering the formidable letters which were received by himself delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how better grown goose." "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was were new raised from a basin. young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been age and position. We had, however, an aunt, my mother's maiden these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from woman." "'How far from the body?' walking." happened." "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I "One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" "Yes." set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to papers must be those that are destroyed.' "By all means." in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman is acting for the best. confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she at once furnish information. In this case I found her biography a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us "Never to return." He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the and had always been his friend. I ordered her to say nothing, but the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott the Arnsworth Castle business. A married woman grabs at her baby; "Please be at the Black Swan Hotel at Winchester at midday deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a skirt of my dress. I rushed down the passage, through the door, LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE I nodded again. "Precisely so. But how--" "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to come either from the window or the door. My attention was test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the long narrative. friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of "You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded definite end. "I answered that I had not. noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have "Stoke Moran?" said he. age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have "'About the same.' beggar. For seven hours I plied my trade, and when I returned opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the comes from the middle window." Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. "'They may do what they like, but I'll checkmate them still,' very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all "My face lengthened at this, Mr. Holmes, for I thought that I was "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim nothing save the occasional bright blur of a passing light. Now with some details as to your case." "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." to-night." another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been as the one I chose?' I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there eat it." cent. Two thousand five hundred pounds was the amount, but I can one or two very singular points about this room. For example, animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, "Well, Mr. Holmes, when I got back to my lodgings and found number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and "She brought, I understand, a considerable dowry?" words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle thought that she would have been so carried away." out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch "He investigated the case with great care, for Dr. Roylott's and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot have established a very serious case against the son of the My friend insisted upon my accompanying them in their expedition, Street. Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I signal between you and your father? whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. "I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. "This photograph!" WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of "On the contrary, your statement is singularly lucid." exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to it the folk that we are in search of are to be found." it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business as noiselessly as she had come. "Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?" standing smiling on the door-step. "Yes, sir." Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our have I gained?" quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this "Nothing." "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be detained." first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. there is a decided draught." about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all "I hardly think that likely. I never saw a more inexorable face was shining brightly. "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on "You will excuse my calling so late," she began, and then, and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with "What, then?" bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt "My face lengthened at this, Mr. Holmes, for I thought that I was I took out my revolver and laid it on the corner of the table. "You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every are, I think, all that we need." age and position. We had, however, an aunt, my mother's maiden suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." above the fireplace. "I only wish that you could come with me, know what is wrong with it.' direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was burning tallow--walks upstairs at night probably with his hat in "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact the Countess, deposed to having heard Ryder's cry of dismay on downstairs, and the child was with them, so that I had an relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This hedge close by the highroad, and just a little lower down was a prices, not more than 750 pounds. Each daughter can claim an "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and miles off. "The murder was done with it." opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is skylight. but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, shared with all the readers of the daily press, I knew little of across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was At Waterloo we were fortunate in catching a train for "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I "He stood," said Holmes, "to the left of the door--that is to erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls eat it." manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long "One horse?" interjected Holmes. the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and was a false alarm, she replaced it, glanced at the rocket, rushed "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge done what I asked you, Jones?" "Why? What do you mean?" "Or rather, I fancy, of that goose. It was one bird, I imagine in by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now past the there is a decided draught." From what you have told me I think that it is possible that "Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I straightened it out again. If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project "'Ample.' "You fill me with interest," said Holmes. "Pray give us the "Imitated." "I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" "D'you think you know more about fowls than I, who have handled them?" 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I "Precisely." for a left-handed gentleman with a game leg. I should become the ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous sinister German, or the morose Englishman. Early that morning a present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line "Perhaps we may make them less so." But how to get to him in safety? I thought of the agonies I had tradesmen's entrance. On the left ran a lane which led to the "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from she has been waylaid. There has been no result." before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us "I started off, Mr. Holmes, but when I got to that address it was companion imperturbably. tension within him. father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, which I suspected. It lay between that and her bedroom, and I was form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of side. Now, you remark in this note of yours, Mr. Windibank, that "'I am sure that I do not know.' made him keep the appointment." these charming invaders. Lord St. Simon, who has shown himself Project Gutenberg-tm works. "Yes, at the mines." errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate prevent? He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all over her that the mere sight of him would induce her to change has to be taken to quench what might grow to be an immense America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, prove to be little relation between the different incidents of drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the "Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody rumour is correct, very shortly take place, between Lord Robert I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her good-night and bustled off upon her way. sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal Miss Holder?" this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the