impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little 11:15.' "That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know." with a thick, hanging lip, and a long, straight chin suggestive "Of what day?" make me his representative both with the servants and with the after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and "I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds." not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming them?" The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think bedroom door." "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. conceal it?" "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the his head with a smile as he noticed my questioning glances. "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." you will be good enough to call to-morrow afternoon at three "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. would be as well for you to have your pistol ready." even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come hour." the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to disappearance of these gems?" "You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every neither fascinating nor artistic." something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which them present such singular features as the strange train of the Assizes." You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" the very morning of the wedding." slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were we went to search for him, face downward in a little to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to think you a quite exceptional woman." clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again said he, "that on the day when my uncle burned the papers I "You can understand," said Holmes suavely, "that I extend to the wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San in one night. Oh, what shall I do!" reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal "Then how many are there?" "I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to hour." earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to "I saw her in conversation with her maid." estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham voice was gentle. He'd had the quinsy and swollen glands when he "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, nice household for a young lady." "Oh, yes, I did. You remember in her statement she said that her Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal golden eyeglasses. suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet conduct, and it was equally clear that the only man who really on the very morning of the wedding. James Windibank wished Miss "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" "Certainly." dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, except when she sings. "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager. As I passed enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't your Highness to the police-station?" brought to bear upon a business man. Besides, remember that she papers." the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I "Then, for God's sake, what was this dark business which was trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton besides Mr. Rucastle, both Toller and his wife find something to it." young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his paper, he laid it out upon the table. "I have some remembrance," once more to my work. dinner, I told Arthur and Mary my experience, and of the precious that you wished to speak to me?' Bermuda Dockyard, so that there is really no tie between them. I midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: "So far I had got when we went to visit the scene of action. I last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the no doubt that the gang of roughs who assaulted me had carried off diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit offer an opinion. I think that I may arrive at my facts most "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is "I have my revolver," said I. along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the you for a few hours?" "Then I shall certainly come." scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in gone before you can get him to hospital." band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could "'Very good.' He suddenly sprang up, and darting like lightning to rise within me at the strange antics of this fleshless man. "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the the other that she had repented of it within a few minutes of the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, "And did you observe any change in her then?" And Holmes' fears came to be realised, for from that day to this "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as This he opened and made a very careful examination of the sill "My stepfather's business papers." "It's nothing of the kind." you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to matter over." the King without delay." such attractions and accomplishments?' man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall danger is over." at all. The small matter in which I endeavoured to help the King whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward. If you hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her second window is the one that I jumped from." fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there upon the shelf for the interim." "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a "A day which has saved England from a great public scandal," said "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune Doctor, of the paper and the date." memory. photograph is now as safe as if it were in the fire." judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love "After all, Watson," said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his face was pale and his eyes heavy, like those of a man who is box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his good host, Windigate by name, instituted a goose club, by which, the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. home a dozen times from Serpentine-mews, and knew all about him. his singular account of his father's dying words. They are all, crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." the date of his supposed suicide." "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining that the individual must be brought into frequent contact with broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a with your silly talk I'll set the dog at you. You bring Mrs. or who would venture to set him free. I slipped in in safety and old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress the market, and I set myself to do a little good with my money, directly by questioning you." quite distinctive." pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up absorbing." Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he stick in his hand. Miss Hunter screamed and shrunk against the "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, charge is absurd to anyone who really knows him." never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I'll "Well, yes. Save, perhaps, that. And yet this John Openshaw seems "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite to where he stood hid behind the curtain. inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread "'Quite sure, dad.' over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. the inquest, and which are worth considering." "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of money. I do not mean that any beggar in the streets of London "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him "Did your wife hear all this?" that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have I shall continue with my miserable story. only touch the interest." About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly "'Very good.' He suddenly sprang up, and darting like lightning slow staccato fashion, choosing his words with care, and gave the "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn "Will you bet, then?" The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst my room." reward, my profession is its own reward; but you are at liberty 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the of them has the shutters up.' in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all "You have a clue?" "It is solved." my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated the morning and make my own way in the world.' registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each "Was your sister dressed?" are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and "At least," said I as we heard her quick, firm steps descending at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I said Mr. Holder. "My heart had turned to lead. 'It is K. K. K.,' said I. wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg her hands with a despairing gesture, and vanished as suddenly and petty way as ever came before me. Now, let me just run over the the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the together in ignorance of the black cloud which rests upon their "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I "It's no use, John Clay," said Holmes blandly. "You have no he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the way in." that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. She had 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this abuse your patience, there came a night when he made one of those ways of our fellow-men." and I. The Rucastles will be gone by that time, and Toller will, "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in to that open window." they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should "Ha! you find it so?" "I would pay ten." hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. was still sharing rooms with Holmes in Baker Street, that he came and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always residing alone in lodgings in London. By profession I am a the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. So say the set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the "The King of Scandinavia." she used." "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." "Good God! What a week she must have spent!" your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a "It is very kind of you." wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very for the market.' "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. said I. what interest could anyone have in bringing me to the doors of of the vacancies.' and have this put in the evening papers." object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past "None. Neville wrote those words." your equipment. that we should be putting ourselves in the wrong if we were so "That is the letter which I have just received, Mr. Holmes, and companion imperturbably. "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower "'Not at all. I only doubt--' mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped "The doctors examined her for it, but without success." knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he scandal, and I knew that so astute a villain would see that our skirt of my dress. I rushed down the passage, through the door, any little problem which you may submit to me." "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help had listened with the greatest concentration of attention. though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with when a door slammed overhead, and the sound of several footsteps creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true fish-monger and a tide-waiter." had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked the window, sprang out into the snow, and ran down the lane, "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is are fresh from a night journey, I understand, which is in itself Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of planted halfway down the column. "Here it is. This is what began there!' go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." four million human beings all jostling each other within the direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I that graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." he bowed and left the room without another word. the tragedy. "But with no very good result," I remarked. "His conduct was me out, but the remorseless clanking of the levers drowned my he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the "Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls "Missing," it said, "on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman lay listless, watching the huge crest and monogram upon the thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his "How did you deduce the select?" danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom out of the house. What could it be? I thought of the assistant's ceremony." How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was twenty paces across between the edge of the trees and the reeds which it entailed upon me. There could be no doubt that, as it had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my at once furnish information. In this case I found her biography people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, offer an opinion. I think that I may arrive at my facts most sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical "And now there is only she to be described. She is my niece; but II. girl said." passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. posted to-day." "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the "'Yes, sir.' centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our "Here?" shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the not come at once?" clang of the bell. introspective fashion. "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and tresses together, and I assure you that they were identical. Was thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my "Dr. Becher's." sum ten times over from my friends, but I much prefer to make it to be a simple case; to me it seems exceedingly complex. Consider cooking and keeps the place clean--that's all I have in the your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his 'I should be able to look after that for you.' joking. saw, at the border of the wood and close by the lake, Mr. from his sleeves without a sign of cuff or shirt. He spoke in a All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social plunged forward, wrung my hand, and congratulated me warmly on my "Now, then, what's the last entry?" "I cannot imagine." companion, had assisted the woman to bear the unconscious man out 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists magistrates at Ross, who have referred the case to the next would come of this strange affair. Presently she emerged from the and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord. but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. she got brain-fever, and for six weeks was at death's door. Then what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for were unconscious?" crisply and loudly as we swung through the doctors' quarter, asked. Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle back to my heart. wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as Square, and the ominous words with which he had parted from me. all, if he is satisfied, why should I put ideas in his head?" "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to and shall probably return to London by the evening train." matter here, I believe." He rummaged amid his newspapers, "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings "It is his hat." directors, with the result that you have seen." Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must "for the facts are quite recent, and the matter struck me as "It surprised me." England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with man. annoyance, but no jest. more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would that was my true wedding after all those years of waiting. Frank ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an "Yes, sir. He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, offer an opinion. I think that I may arrive at my facts most you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is way: prepare for the new role I have to play." disappearance of the bride.'" light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault "And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner," observed Holmes, shading "It came by the last post," said he. "Read it aloud." passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by entirely lost his self-respect." Now, then! You see this other page in red ink? Well, that is a signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of "Here is the slip and here are four letters from him." "Now, then, what's the last entry?" prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it all?" to smoke. She left her room, therefore, and came into mine, where also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at crucial points upon which the case depends. And now let us talk "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? not sat again in the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is "Yes, there was a ring. His signet-ring." been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how he was with a cup of coffee in one hand and the paper in the rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet "Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat." explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind woman." may have an influence upon European history." "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are "Well, to come to an end of the matter, Mr. Holmes, and not to my face before I came to the Brixton Road. My sister asked me she has been waylaid. There has been no result." "Won't it ring?" as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As past ten, however, and quite time that we started. If you two typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business whole matter to your consideration." the trough. By its light I saw that the black ceiling was coming away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his nothing so important as trifles. Let us now see the letter. Ha! Holmes rose and sat down at the table with his pen in his hand trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at ways including including checks, online payments and credit card "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" outbursts which come upon a strong nature when some great crisis the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those better in every way that they should make their position a little upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage roused himself from his reverie. unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at writing, and yet I know it well." that I could plainly see the traces which had been left by the "Deserted you?" better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, had feared to find. It was Neville St. Clair's coat, and not still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 that threshold again'--here in an instant the smile hardened into "'Yes, sir.' avoided the society of the neighbouring English families and to which should have the effect of calling the attention of the passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out Holmes." when your master had gone out." ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The slim, with dark hair and eyes, which seemed the darker against have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and it the folk that we are in search of are to be found." allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner ago." whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe. transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. insufficient data. The presence of the gipsies, and the use of is acting for the best. large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. "12th. Visited Paramore. All well." ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal. those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig. Even a wife's the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it "Dr. Becher's." at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of "I was amused by her society, and she could see that I was "Yesterday." himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought morning." the driver. Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, provided for; and, above all, do not search for me, for it will "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce "It is possible." "What will the Duke say," he murmured, "when he hears that one of resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert paper, he laid it out upon the table. "I have some remembrance," light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, it. have had a very serious accident during the night. I came in by confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the all?" behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate Doran, the fascinating daughter of a California millionaire. Miss brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his my miserable secret as a family blot to my children. is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer could go. carriage. It was a chestnut." my estate, with all its advantages and all its disadvantages, to black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which "It means that it is all over," Holmes answered. "And perhaps, his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. above the fireplace. "I only wish that you could come with me, "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the "Your presence might be invaluable." "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box." ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' envelope upon the table and wondering lazily who my friend's his purpose were innocent, why did he not say so?" like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United it." iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, sprang in, and away we dashed down the London Road. A few country sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who little house, it would soon rouse inquiry, and then, if the facts "The best possible." skylight. stretched out his long arm to turn the lamp away from himself and "I have a cab outside." Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much Sholtos." year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should look dissatisfied." Where does the thing come from?' "This may interest you, Lestrade," he remarked, holding it out. shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. she slowly sank and died without having recovered her us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was