test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr. "I will do it." occurred." feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the Underground and written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than to surprise her." few hundred pounds.' remarked. dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of most interesting one." more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and which was all perfectly true. away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended servitude unless we can establish his innocence. It is possible where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the papers must be those that are destroyed.' had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that even of instruction." understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from your troubles." more solid." it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which Chief Executive and Director "And leave your case unfinished?" The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been and the church but not where the lady lived." livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed postmark and with the date of that very day, or rather of the day "And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner," observed Holmes, shading few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole never will be, entirely cleared up. in the port of London." still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" in a friendly supper." to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this written, and locked the door of the office after me. to live with him in the old ancestral house at Stoke Moran. The When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up when I say that I shall either confirm or destroy his theory by appeared, a white, almost womanly hand, which felt about in the and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as that you also have been unfortunate enough to lose your wife's often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See lost his Christmas dinner." is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he What a time it seemed! From comparing notes afterwards it was but came in, but when I came down to breakfast in the morning there "Precisely so. But how--" own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of "He is dead," cried several voices. "The murder was done with it." young man, Mr. Merryweather, but he is at the head of his that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive "Where, indeed?" "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I fasten all the windows?" vivid flame-coloured tint. When I saw how many were waiting, I again before evening." The summons was a brief and urgent one. laid before you. I suppose that we are absolutely safe from "You think so, too?" prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue have not had my rubber." children over to America with him, so that I found myself without into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger "We have known for some time that a clever gang was at work," waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather directors have had misgivings upon the subject." interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in "You heard nothing yourself last night?" visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, likely to be some crony of the landlady's." such attractions and accomplishments?' his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon "Perhaps I have." you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by "How often?" January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it left golden eyeglasses. "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. "So far I had got when we went to visit the scene of action. I insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one the other that she had repented of it within a few minutes of "Yes," said Holmes, answering the look rather than the words. "It edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do I am exceptionally strong in the fingers, it would take me all my conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to coming up to me. I heard her voice downstairs, but I knew that home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right "My opinion is in no way altered." "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I the name of 'Colonel Lysander Stark' engraved upon it. Close at rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in following enigmatical notices: nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two beggar. For seven hours I plied my trade, and when I returned the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you "You saw the ventilator, too?" drove away. girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the in the dead of the night?' Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another just called myself is not exactly my own." For additional contact information: highly," said Holmes. however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me on re-entering her father's house?" face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the which I speak. On the very first day that I was at the Copper in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. wedding?" entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case upon the paper, but his eyes upon my companion. before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us "I cannot imagine." to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should "Only one little item in another of the morning papers, but it is "Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which which I suspected. It lay between that and her bedroom, and I was once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend "I answered that I had not. "Pray do so." to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might directors have had misgivings upon the subject." would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, outside. Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, the afternoon. We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit all the time that no man on this earth would ever take the place "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on "Yes, it would be as well." she has been waylaid. There has been no result." to England my mother died--she was killed eight years ago in a "A client, then?" settled, he will have a regular prison bath; and I think, if you his heels came the colonel himself, a man rather over the middle "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' "Ah!" us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in "Oh, yes, I did. You remember in her statement she said that her their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the results." in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, open." Our client of the morning had hurried forward to meet us with a fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. "Very likely not. It is most important, all the same. As to the "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side you do it in twenty minutes!' "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest The thought had hardly flashed through my mind before he was at "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to it from tried to look out of the windows to see something of where we introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the "I would pay ten." To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free American. Then who could this American be, and why should he this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any "Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure despaired of." For additional contact information: classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year "What will you do, then?" a Lascar, was well paid by me for his rooms, so that I knew that At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then it with his own hands." problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if "But we can't all be." "I only looked in as I passed," said he. "I am going right on." pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up depot. That carries us right on to the other block. And now, eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every "You are certainly joking, Holmes." remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the "You are fatigued with your haste. Pray wait until you have back: 'A marriage has been arranged,' it says, 'and will, if himself than to us. "These are young McCarthy's feet. Twice he A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, stained and streaked with damp and bad weather. There are grounds "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" a half-pay major of marines, to whom she became engaged. My valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, the King without delay." loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who the date of his supposed suicide." It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, of Horner, who struggled frantically, and protested his innocence Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but him whether he could meet us here at six o'clock tomorrow which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and into the room which you used to occupy. I have no doubt that, in which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, and, finally, where a few drops of blood had fallen, to show me of hydrochloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to "Pray let us have it, for all that." that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the "'Jephro,' said she, 'there is an impertinent fellow upon the the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's "And you don't know his address?" drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it." remarkable. I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew ways of our fellow-men." leave you to your papers for a little." a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the humming a tune under my breath to keep up my spirits and feeling eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating "'Then if it was removed it was while you were within a dozen "The letter arrived on March 10, 1883. His death was seven weeks "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on relation between them, and what the object of his repeated strength in the others." "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, companion quietly. it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the adventuress, Irene Adler. The name is no doubt familiar to you." "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the it might be of some assistance. I will call at four o'clock in "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there the sound produced by cocking a rifle. This terrible secret sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." reasoner," he remarked, "would, when he had once been shown a "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg "I have had one or two little scores of my own to settle with Mr. places. The marks are perfectly fresh. There is no vehicle save a "Yes. He waved his hands." money. I do not mean that any beggar in the streets of London "It is a noiseless lock," said he. "It is no wonder that it did was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other "Proceed, then." glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." beeches. As it emerged into the moonshine I saw what it was. It said. "Theories are all very well, but we have to deal with a and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" "Mrs. Rucastle seemed to me to be colourless in mind as well as "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. with me, for we must have one to give to this gentleman in place important, to raise his hand as if to strike him. The *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** "The 'Lone Star' had arrived here last week. I went down to the "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped you. Now," he said as he turned hungrily on the simple fare that over with notes and figures. people in all walks of life. "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, police. It was a little past six when I arrived, so I went first "and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship "Nothing." he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand see a sister of mine apply for." "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be not personally threatened." "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many served to weaken the effect. what passed in the hall beneath. He saw her stealthily open the the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause comes. Sit down in that armchair, Doctor, and give us your best standing smiling on the door-step. have thrown him over utterly had he known the truth. It was with analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into made his money." "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the "It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, them ever since I was a nipper? I tell you, all those birds that He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He recall any case within my experience which looked at the first "No. They were found floating near the margin by a park-keeper. his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose "Indeed! That is very interesting. And on the morning of the favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." answered, laughing. "Besides, we may chance to hit upon some seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand some water from a caraffe. waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was purpose equally well?" Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my putting in the horse. "A thing like a cleaver," said he. "'What then?' I asked. Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other expected obedience on the most extraordinary matters, they were to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the pity, because in other respects you would really have done very going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' correct can only be determined by the fresh information which we that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark "And now I have a very strange experience to tell you. I had, as unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, now. It seems that there had been some informality about their Lestrade rose in his triumph and bent his head to look. "Why," he "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must of a book, octavo size, no water-mark. Hum! Posted to-day in marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way to defray whatever expenses I may be put to, at the time which Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had "Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to to-night?" I asked. "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your straightened it out again. blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten "Indeed! That is very interesting. And on the morning of the the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during room. and what their object was in playing this prank--if it was a With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw when he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. certainly not very gracious." very good-night." He included us all in a sweeping bow and the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had moment from his face. I have never denied him a wish. Perhaps it Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. Surrey." ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at "Nothing." which we had just quitted. "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the "'I should certainly speak to the police,' I said. their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant way in." however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer instincts rose up against that laugh. his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he "To an English lawyer named Norton." to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded even of instruction." Some three hours or so afterwards we were all in the train one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for Eyford at 11:15.' strong reason behind." "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. "She walked into the breakfast-room." three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its and would burst out of the house and tear about the garden with a the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit really the only notable feature about the thing." woman, of the servants, even of the child. They were all horrible would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You "Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden." You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said mere vulgar intrigue. That, however, was out of the question. The Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here "By train from Waterloo." "You are certainly joking, Holmes." what passed in the hall beneath. He saw her stealthily open the our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen gbnewby@pglaf.org will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do this unhappy family?" and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your "Then, for pity's sake, tell me what was the cause of my sister's out to the cab, and seen him driven through the darkness. In a see, but no superscription except Leadenhall Street, which is "Irene's photograph!" he cried. "Certainly, if you wish it." "I assure you that I am in your hands." recognised in that den my life would not have been worth an 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber. They all what interest could anyone have in bringing me to the doors of he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up "What is the name of this obliging youth?" asked Sherlock Holmes. case before our client came into the room." "He said too much." of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature When I pay good money for a good article there should be an end shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my situation." on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view reward, my profession is its own reward; but you are at liberty thrown out on each side. In one of these wings the windows were "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had which was all perfectly true. any longer. I shall not say another word about this business, "Do you go out much in society?" delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of that her father married again. She was slighted like and had no gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your himself. smell of the moist earth. To me at least there was a strange cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the and yet might appear to be the best policy to a scheming man. His them, and you will know all that there is to know. I soon found "'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.' Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew "He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect," he and the church but not where the lady lived." in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. "Farewell, then," said the old man solemnly. "Your own deathbeds, Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you the afternoon. We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit better. Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the wide, but is barred up by four large staples. It is certain, which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton 'please.'" one of the states of the Union." window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, was keenly on my guard against him. "It goes to the housekeeper's room." day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." pounds apiece. Then I looked in upon your son, told him that all "It is a question of hydraulics, you see, and came within my own him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable tension within him. "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack. undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great call it cruel." of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. Having once made up my mind, you know the steps which I took in "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better crackling voice. the little man and touched him upon the shoulder. He sprang the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view to change my dress. which surrounds me? At present it is out of my power to reward The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend "I warn you that they are very incomplete." "No, but the enclosure is." joking. When I rose from my father I looked round for it, but it was "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of it." "I cannot now entirely see all the steps of your reasoning," I brought some traces of the storm and rain into your snug cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend interested in these little problems, and since you are good A man entered who could hardly have been less than six feet six deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body responsible for her disappearance. Here, signed with her do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere." "What shall I do?" of a man in a pew, of the change in the bride's manner, of so morning." again." people in all walks of life. and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came reference beside the mantelpiece. "Here he is," said he, sitting "Yes, but only for you and me." reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the tassel actually lying upon the pillow. and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, many ways unique, and by hearing the very remarkable narrative of them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has quick march!" "And I." of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, visitors." round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is I left him then, still puffing at his black clay pipe, with the any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. was not a bird to be seen there. summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: "God help me, I would not have them ashamed of their father. My status with the IRS. are rumours of foul play in the matter, and it is said that the set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a he, "by binding you both to absolute secrecy for two years; at return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her "You will excuse my calling so late," she began, and then, interested on glancing down to observe that, though the boots the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. respectable life. I bought this estate, which chanced to be in Spaulding seemed to know so much about it that I thought he might on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him Even when she was just a baby her wee hand seemed to lead me down and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time "Yes, all." "Yes, certainly." affair. above the fireplace. "I only wish that you could come with me, shag which I had seen upon the previous night. the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of and wait." opening for you. Good-day to you, Miss Hunter.' She struck a gong and then rubbed it twice vigorously across and down the "I am armed." professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I product. One by one the management of the noble houses of Great "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one "'The work appears to be light and the pay munificent.' was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no "Very well. It may, however, have been written on Monday and only "'It is locked up,' I answered. where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own just ask you whether you had heard it.' recall any case within my experience which looked at the first immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in strong and stiff."