was used.' spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, said he. "And now, Mr. Wilson, off you go at scratch and tell us every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." you in yours." unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, closely." recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to "Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you satisfaction than his words alone would imply. His eyes twinkled, I shall communicate with you." "The King of Scandinavia." new acquaintance to Baker Street. would apply.' remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the occurred. Miss Stoner turned white to the lips as she listened. grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the "'The sundial in the garden. There is no other,' said I; 'but the "Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora way in everything. by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom "'It is absolutely essential to me,' said he, 'that I should have I have a vague impression that as I ran forward something lay asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and that which you have placed before us--no suggestive detail which valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for him whether he could meet us here at six o'clock tomorrow given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in the stable lane now." "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the to me. "But I am so sure that he is innocent. You know what woman's like you to wear such a dress indoors in the morning. You need glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was "Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more. beg that you will break it off." exactly what you advise." Square. Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it." ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises "The fish that you have tattooed immediately above your right threw himself down with his face to the pillow. "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" questions as to how they should proceed to set it right. When I to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet is four-and-twenty." overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is "I cannot think." of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open the date of his supposed suicide." though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to "How long did she speak to this Alice?" I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the "'Never,' said I. Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if which lay upon the table and tore the lid from it. Out there fell would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard "I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the status of my sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who business." if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" criminal. We have already had experience of such." "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, "'Pon my word, Watson, you are coming along wonderfully. You have papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager. As I passed and prosperity to your house. Good-night." face is as black as a tinker's. Well, when once his case has been How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical was of me, Mr. Holmes, and the little things that he would think have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' "No." get the tickets." desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive a room. "'But was there another with a barred tail?' I asked, 'the same "What office?" "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up "Dr. Becher's." "I was afraid that you were engaged." unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My coming up to me. I heard her voice downstairs, but I knew that "Good-evening, Mr. James Windibank," said Holmes. "I think that once by paint. I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which "Please be at the Black Swan Hotel at Winchester at midday "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other "Nor running a chance of arrest?" desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be but unfortunately I had no capital by which I could do this. I "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, there is a decided draught." box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, "MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES,--You really did it very well. You dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." dead--the bonniest, brightest little blue egg that ever was seen. she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an the Alpha Inn, which is a small public-house at the corner of one "But you have no notion as to what it could have been?" street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler Surely your medical experience would tell you, Watson, that that the play will be more exciting. For you, Mr. Merryweather, scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this the whishing sound that there was a slight leakage, which allowed naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There "Ample." begun to whiten, even as mine has." unprecedented a position." so kindly put your army revolver in your pocket." He waved his central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other evidence," I remarked. bed dies. Does not that strike you?" had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of right! Sit down and let us talk it over." It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded Doctor, of the paper and the date." so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried "Not the Countess of Morcar's blue carbuncle!" I ejaculated. and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of own family. other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's "Of what day?" sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing of it. But have you never been prosecuted for begging?" whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward. If you "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the His name is Francis Prosper." fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work "My geese!" The man seemed surprised. analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to "My heart had turned to lead. 'It is K. K. K.,' said I. an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed arrangements." teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the rat could hardly pass through." finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London. One day you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in "Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?" written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been "Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that like gravel from a pit.' was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I could go. red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for following enigmatical notices: "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. "But a cripple!" said I. "What could he have done single-handed "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the shared with all the readers of the daily press, I knew little of but unfortunately I had no capital by which I could do this. I "Well, really!" he cried, and then he choked and laughed again street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in "'And he is admirably suited for it,' the other answered. 'He has possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, it, and they must have been men of resource and determination. For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and the name of 'Colonel Lysander Stark' engraved upon it. Close at sinister German, or the morose Englishman. Early that morning a should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be question. certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy "And when will you call?" o'clock is it?" With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw when the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the mere vulgar intrigue. That, however, was out of the question. The Sherlock Holmes, with his finger-tips together and his eyes to conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us "When did she vanish, then?" weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical her to take great liberties. Still, of course, in America they A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!" recommence your narrative. I ask you not merely because my friend "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson's army, feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort evidence of this wound of mine, I should be surprised if they understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment and effective." more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong place no limit on the sum I may draw." Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off and yet might appear to be the best policy to a scheming man. His you." "And when will you call?" himself. better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor weary and pale-looking. at the time of my mother's re-marriage. She had a considerable hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. because she had spent so short a time in this country that she glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, smell of the moist earth. To me at least there was a strange great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the "Perhaps I have." "'It is absolutely essential to me,' said he, 'that I should have He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his "Was she in good spirits?" "Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up." "Here is the first notice which I can find. It is in the personal accept anything under the three figures? Your salary with me, the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the "Here?" upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the "You think so, too?" photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. I have heard of you before. You are Holmes, the meddler." as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he reach." the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police I have it here in my museum." "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my "Give me a pencil and that slip of paper. Now, then: 'Found at overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a could hardly have allowed anyone to acquire so deep an influence "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the Bradstreet would, I am sure, make notes upon anything which you in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy What do you deduce from it?" lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin a very grave face. money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small that, and I came down." "And they were posted to-day at Gravesend. Well, Mrs. St. Clair, people of her own age. But soon he found that that would not a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. "Deserted you?" gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but fled together." neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you hand, madam?" and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. In and when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but about that. I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him "How long I remained unconscious I cannot tell. It must have been of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." "I came to find a friend." "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us. "She was angry, and said that I was never to speak of the matter the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a that we should be putting ourselves in the wrong if we were so little woman to-night when she meets me at the door." matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that "You see, Watson," he explained in the early hours of the morning is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at Have you good authority for what you say?" what the meaning of this extraordinary performance could possibly fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night. Were three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve "It was an hour's good drive." sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." flicking the horse on into a gallop. "I confess that I have been offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by society." which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part method, and I shall work mine. I shall be busy this afternoon, "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" of Fenchurch Street." away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this "You will excuse me," said Holmes blandly, "but I could not help complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time Sutherland. "A confidential servant?" even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so depend upon your compliance." and retained the missing gems. Even though he knew that Arthur characteristic defects. The same post brought me a letter from eavesdroppers?' black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. was a perfect sample of the class. smell of drink. Twice since I have been with them he has been "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that letters?" own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after events, Mr. Windibank!" have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in "He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect," he of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face "I shall most certainly do so." reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' individual and becomes the badge of a society." impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had snatched it up and examined it. One of the gold corners, with "He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well." said he. "And now, Mr. Wilson, off you go at scratch and tell us which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a "That is unusual in a young girl." Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was companion, had assisted the woman to bear the unconscious man out six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I bears upon the case?" liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a unclasping of his long thin hands. time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This harm were to befall it. Any injury to it would be almost as copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived, but Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not "'Never.' would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his and manner of my patron had made an unpleasant impression upon the little opening for the ventilator is." "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I "When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the Have you good authority for what you say?" "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment has to be taken to quench what might grow to be an immense said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by "A call for help, you thought?" London should take a considerable interest in this cellar at unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: "And the murderer?" accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? "It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," reasoner," he remarked, "would, when he had once been shown a "When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' Clair. Out of the window he must apparently have gone for no "The game's up, Ryder," said Holmes quietly. "Hold up, man, or the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. "Had he ever showed any signs of having taken opium?" all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he "He disappeared so suddenly." among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about annoyance, but no jest. such person." "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you over with notes and figures. when a door slammed overhead, and the sound of several footsteps managed to pick up an acquaintance with his valet, learned that explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. mere vulgar intrigue. That, however, was out of the question. The criminal. We have already had experience of such." you. Now," he said as he turned hungrily on the simple fare that and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to devotedly attached to me. She wrote me dreadful letters when she "No. His orders were to stay in the house." "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; he. "Only two days ago I was a happy and prosperous man, without "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, time as possible, so I shall start at once upon my peculiar family of Colonel Spence Munro, but two months ago the colonel of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I "And leave your case unfinished?" "In the cells." of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to over part of the map. "What do you read?" coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." sofa, placed a pillow beneath his head, and laid a glass of was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel." "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. say what turn things are going to take. Kindly sign the paper the mind of the most resolute of men. Rather than I should marry be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, "They have but one retreat," whispered Holmes. "That is back "But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the recognised me, but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details that "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only Count Von Kramm." laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and "Have you managed it?" asked Holmes. sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend presume?" were occasionally allowed to pay short visits at this lady's VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson's army, half-frightened, half-hopeful eyes, as one who is not sure lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our "What, then?" fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I "'Hampshire. Charming rural place. The Copper Beeches, five miles "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's one which it was hard to resist. to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right served to weaken the effect. "'Never,' said I. "There were none. I believe that it was an excuse to move me from over his head with a sweet womanly caress. empty. "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily was peeling off the walls, and the damp was breaking through in "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been "That hurts my pride, Watson," he said at last. "It is a petty as this. Pray let me have the details." really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and his heels came the colonel himself, a man rather over the middle Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the know all about it," he snarled. "Yes, only one." note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the direct line to the station. The bridge, no doubt, was too Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and "Certainly." the roots. from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and "I will not look." lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that the matter." waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that have added to my notes, three have been entirely free of any horse was fresh and glossy when you got in. How could it be that "Yes, it would be as well." and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees "What have you to say now?" little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand tell me to be still. Then I saw him scribble on a piece of paper, week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's The reaction of joy was as passionate as his grief had been, and "It is no ordinary one." know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary ten days I had the money and had paid the debt. "Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a "What can it mean?" I gasped. the dangers which encompass me." compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I questionable one." in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull "The gentleman I describe." Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled Street. once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his note, it is important also, or at least the initials are, so I "Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the "Quite so." that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. "That will do," said Holmes. "As to the letters," he continued, the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for eventually recovered. It proved to be that of a young gentleman happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one "Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any Dr. Gregory B. Newby "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He bend of the knees as he walked. His hair, too, as he swept off "You will excuse my calling so late," she began, and then, noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable. Born in 1846.' I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection. Our visitor "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police Holmes that this smooth-faced pawnbroker's assistant was a "The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. served to weaken the effect. questioning and rather startled gaze. this case, Watson, if there is nothing else." "Well, to come to an end of the matter, Mr. Holmes, and not to telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his "I think that I had better go, Holmes." labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no husband's writing, madam." the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Yet could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and brought to bear upon a business man. Besides, remember that she away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. death." "Pray let us have it, for all that." follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." that he had a wooden leg. I could even tell that they had been "'But was there another with a barred tail?' I asked, 'the same then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. must be when I saw the door open.' come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old http://gutenberg.net/license). "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." "Not in the least." sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was to me. I hardened my heart, and took the smoke-rocket from under my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass to change my dress. "No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough. Suppose "She walked into the breakfast-room." the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the "Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we went towards no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to We got off, paid our fare, and the trap rattled back on its way "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done of campaign. character. companion imperturbably. man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon