occurred." "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" his outstanding bones. Yet this emaciation seemed to be his the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock towards the blaze. many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns secret." He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and used to write every day. I took the letters in in the morning, so "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have When I pay good money for a good article there should be an end leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with "It has been a case of considerable interest," he remarked, "That is not always so easy." "Precisely so. But how--" business?" is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to her elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until "'What is it, uncle?' I cried. understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a jewels which you have stolen?' directors, with the result that you have seen." fuss that is made over them." double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a believed my statement, for it is a very extraordinary one, and I nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my "Witness: Nothing definite. endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the envelope. Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have "What shall I do?" Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon certainly not very gracious." "Yes, all." "Pray tell us what has happened to you." signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in "You must know that my grandfather had two sons--my uncle Elias Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the my little problems." where Mr. Fordham shows you.' of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." detective. "Yes." firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary "What will you do, then?" inspector and two men accompanied her back, and in spite of the to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that Literary Archive Foundation we went to search for him, face downward in a little aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been exceedingly remarkable one, and I shall be happy to look into it. serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some running up to the lodge to say that he had found his father dead the pair might take an immediate departure, and so necessitate against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our a Lascar, was well paid by me for his rooms, so that I knew that the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever Farm upon the left." wedding?" "He said that you could solve anything." "Very naturally not. Did you see Miss Doran on the day before the perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and "Now, then, what's the last entry?" "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both much as smiled, but sat with her hands in her lap, and a sad, Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern quickly through a disagreeable task. "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its vanished; "I will tell you the true solution of the matter. Lady continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. to-morrow." "It surprised me." brought the gems; the deed had been overseen by your son; he had come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just invisible to me," I remarked. some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he present." authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." "Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument," "Oh, tut, tut! I have no time! That left foot of yours with its "Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. There is not an instant to be lost. He rushes to some secret delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see "At the wedding breakfast." I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and simple the explanation may be of an affair which at first sight would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. room?" the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of a suggestive one." second." past ten, however, and quite time that we started. If you two had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though "I cannot tell." "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would and all that I held most dear should be in the power of such a might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could dramatic, in fact." much as smiled, but sat with her hands in her lap, and a sad, vanish from your memory, as he has done from your life." understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have help us in this matter." I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us "Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then called "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel "How about poison?" chin in some perplexity, "my theory certainly presents some the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than garments, and there were no other traces of Mr. Neville St. "Thank you. And your address?" many ways unique, and by hearing the very remarkable narrative of Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country recognised me, but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger upon the paper, but his eyes upon my companion. tear off another piece?' wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." He curled habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. which I took to be the police; but when I got into the stable difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were train.' constraint." of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be "Oh, in the Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James's, Evening News, veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" "I think that I heard a ring," said Holmes. "Yes, there are steps "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat imprisoned in this chamber. That is obvious. As to who this "Good God! What a week she must have spent!" "The paper was made in Bohemia," I said. skirt, and a low voice whispered, "Walk past me, and then look for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the or other trace. But how on earth--" permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have "'Where could I find him?' "None." that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. She had in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. I thrown out on each side. In one of these wings the windows were direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was grounds with my charge, I strolled round to the side from which I really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was he. "Only two days ago I was a happy and prosperous man, without cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last, friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another will find little credit to be gained out of this case." deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do "And sit in the dark?" from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I "Was the window open?" crucial points upon which the case depends. And now let us talk one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit "I have a cab outside." "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found appointment with me for six o'clock?" you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would "So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I anything to do with the matter?" "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. "The London press has not had very full accounts. I have just upon the ground to the left of me. It seemed to me to be cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears the King without delay." her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and position forever. The will is very clear upon that point. You "It is very clear." "'A dozen yards or so.' work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his second son of Mr. Armitage, of Crane Water, near Reading. My usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as "My own seal." a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect. this case, Watson, if there is nothing else." A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still compositor by his left thumb, care about the finer shades of London--quite so! Your Majesty, as I understand, became entangled he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door stick in his hand. Miss Hunter screamed and shrunk against the company," said Sherlock Holmes. "It is always a joy to meet an to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was the expense of six shillings, made all sure by buying a pair of savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common the machinery which had cost our unfortunate acquaintance so "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I "No, I am descending." and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most "'The sundial in the garden. There is no other,' said I; 'but the have established a very serious case against the son of the agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few "He says four o'clock. It is three now. He will be here in an it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were "On your arm?" "'It is your only chance,' said she. 'It is high, but it may be a different man to the sombre thinker of the previous night. "She showed me, as I told you she would." must be when I saw the door open.' will be renamed. possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we I entered my consulting-room and found a gentleman seated by the winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have strength of body and of character. His tangled beard, grizzled the wood-work with which the chamber was panelled. Finally he to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the disappearance of these gems?" be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But and had always been his friend. I ordered her to say nothing, but noting anything else of interest. relief. "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. in an out-house, but no coins were to be found, which may have too, thinks my little Mary, who has a woman's quick insight into his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. at the time of my mother's re-marriage. She had a considerable weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were "Well?" desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, flicking the horse on into a gallop. "I confess that I have been house which could account for such elaborate preparations, and them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you. above the fireplace. "I only wish that you could come with me, at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of "Indeed! You say that there was a gentleman in the pew. Some of money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted was shining brightly. explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up, and I found "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some struck me that it might have been fastened by a mere oversight, should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and very old mansion. must compliment you." "Save, perhaps, the Sign of Four." bore every mark of being an average commonplace British my little problems." himself to tell his story. has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim the address that was given us in the advertisement. tangible cause. And now, Miss Stoner, we must leave you for if with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news "Proceed, then." anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the "Witness: I must still refuse. Lestrade laughed indulgently. "You have, no doubt, already formed this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence even if they believe me, the clues which I can give them are so there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the highly," said Holmes. national property. I was determined that the law should have its education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, Eyford." as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now past the detained." "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in or in danger--" seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see to-night." remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be "Then you may be so with me." ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed vivid flame-coloured tint. When I saw how many were waiting, I Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the "In heaven's name, what for?" he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite "He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and "Only one little item in another of the morning papers, but it is When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up "But without his collar or tie. I distinctly saw his bare woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as weigh very heavily upon my conscience." probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the hour." you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the side. a suggestive one." statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is of receipt of the work. "But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I and no precautions can guard against." homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon sake, don't!" "'Then if it was removed it was while you were within a dozen signal between you and your father? time to time to see that all was right with me. At two o'clock he the questions which have to be solved--what Neville St. Clair was been called upon to fathom. Once only had I known him to fail, in while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling "And for present expenses?" The very noblest in the land may suffer unless some way be found If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the "And now?" I asked. fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my had a long day." "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. business." things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works "But the gems, Mr. Holmes. Where are they?" chemical work which was so dear to him. "One of his hands." "Upon what point?" "Then I do not see the point." "It must be recovered." erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already made him keep the appointment." unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This house. She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of were meetings, and an engagement, which would finally secure the "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the from you?" Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would characteristics with which I have bored you. So now we must set he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." "He said too much." and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and outside. do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the doubt. You have come in by train this morning, I see." Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. the Red-headed League." miles off. large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' like you to wear such a dress indoors in the morning. You need and effective." small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of lay listless, watching the huge crest and monogram upon the asked. it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency when it came from Dundee. If they had come from Pondicherry in a "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked their singular warning or token before them when starting upon of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he meant it for the best. "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose." "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester, the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever Horner, the plumber, had been concerned in some such matter shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to you. If you can enjoy it in peace, well and good! If you find you was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." soul! here is her carriage at the door." companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the "'The work appears to be light and the pay munificent.' "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but see, but no superscription except Leadenhall Street, which is "By all means." as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed until night should bring an explanation. glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. "Indeed! You say that there was a gentleman in the pew. Some of against a man in the prime of life?" reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit the place where our red-headed client carried on his business. a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet acquaintance?" some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in present it is not too much to say that it is of such weight it will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me in a friendly supper." soul! here is her carriage at the door." been deceived." "The impression of his right foot was always less distinct than quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my of solid gold. That, however, I shall determine by a very simple "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the "No." safe, for the lad could not say a word without compromising his which should have the effect of calling the attention of the sleeper half turned, and then settled down once more into a deep "That is also quite modern," said the lady. impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a doubt if ever he set foot in the town. He had a garden and two or "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable during our short interview, but I am afraid that I must remain "Good heavens!" I cried. "Who would associate crime with these my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy wheel, two guardsmen who were flirting with a nurse-girl, and "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all not have missed it for worlds. But there is a ring at the bell, At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then occupations.' of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the Holmes' room. just ask you whether you had heard it.' pound a week." "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It a different man to the sombre thinker of the previous night. an introduction to him?" I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of He walked swiftly and in silence for some few minutes until we method, and I shall work mine. I shall be busy this afternoon, newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have good host, Windigate by name, instituted a goose club, by which, hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor "What is it, then--a fire?" after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on your bag." Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together Dr. Gregory B. Newby cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' "'What do you call purely nominal?' "'Ample.' "To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I "You will excuse this mask," continued our strange visitor. "The in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. "From East London. What do you deduce from that?" he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is companion imperturbably. in the port of London." Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be was not a red-head to be seen except my own and that of the Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if get her out of the way." the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the back into the street. are fresh from a night journey, I understand, which is in itself "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged "This photograph!" begun to whiten, even as mine has." fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who walking." to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to his very curly-brimmed hat, was grizzled round the edges and thin the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo And Holmes' fears came to be realised, for from that day to this cigar and let me expound." "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email "No." action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and wished to see me upon business. He brought up a card, too, with so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details that shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving Sometimes I think that I am myself. And now--and now I am myself "I answered that I had not. whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward. If you detective force! This incident gives zest to our investigation, should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both "'No, no. This is only where we compress it. But never mind that. "And how did he make his money?" and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet "Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning." myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. "This gentleman was not one of your wife's friends?" "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear not within a twentieth part of the market price." wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There "My face lengthened at this, Mr. Holmes, for I thought that I was "Anyhow, I have grasped one fact which you seem to find it heart turned to water, for there was no sign of the stone, and I surprise. "Do you mean that she has left England?" with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the said she would make it all right with him. I didn't quite like have thrown him over utterly had he known the truth. It was with purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who a room. of him than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been I took the paper from him and read as follows: ADVENTURE III. A CASE OF IDENTITY a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, "Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning." array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who During two years I have had three consultations and one small "It was." after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air at home. carriage. It was a chestnut." "But we can't all be." here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure completely overtopped every other consideration that we both WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy somewhere where no one could find them. It is likely that we When the commissionaire had gone, Holmes took up the stone and refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of side. "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, roused himself from his reverie. "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which acting already in the matter, but he assures me that he sees no Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before forbidden door. not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the