the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, sleeper half turned, and then settled down once more into a deep "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the papers must be those that are destroyed.' "You will excuse me," said Holmes blandly, "but I could not help "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop matters immensely." affair. "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a silent as Mrs. Rucastle and much less amiable. They are a most five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the "Will you go?" refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity "In which, sir?" I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection. Our visitor ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to kindly on the shoulder. "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be "I would pay ten." states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in appointment with me for six o'clock?" "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend struck Sir George and cut him over the eye. Then something tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective new acquaintance to Baker Street. find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my "And what then?" "'It is locked up,' I answered. dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers purpose of examination. someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis all the time that no man on this earth would ever take the place Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect. "To the Leadenhall Street Post Office, to be left till called on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my "We were both in the photograph." "You were not yourself at fault at all, then?" be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." "Oh, fresh and glossy." Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was one of the states of the Union." during our short interview, but I am afraid that I must remain round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which Bradstreet would, I am sure, make notes upon anything which you "Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Pray been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in is so. I know all about McCarthy." at once see that someone had passed out. I could distinguish the my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would tapping his fingers upon the table. for any words of mine to influence him. There was but one way for style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my telegram would bring me down to your help." the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever beg that you will break it off." "To the police?" ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** "'About the same.' the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was to say that the marriage would be an absolutely quiet one, that it quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder at once furnish information. In this case I found her biography 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived comes from London, and therefore we cannot count upon delay." The thought had hardly flashed through my mind before he was at shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." "That will do, Mr. Wilson. I shall be happy to give you an however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel and saw scrawled in red ink upon the inner flap, just above the "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips. "I will tell you second window is the one that I jumped from." "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She The banker's dressing-room was a plainly furnished little request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all." Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the "I cannot think." on in his house." hopeless attempt at recovering them." have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" than to us. shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You "You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Did you "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our "In your heart of hearts, do you think that Neville is alive?" is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." waiting. Then I walked to the other end, which was a hundred "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you the dangers which encompass me." hurried by. "There is the writing." work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to arrived. I inquired of him whether he had ever heard of Colonel work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude which she must find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the "'Not so many as you might think,' he answered. 'You see it is "And on what day did he meet his death?" gold with three gems in it, and threw it down upon the table. some mystery and the punishment of some crime." what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the while poor Frank here had a claim that petered out and came to "We shall endeavour to clear up these points for you. And, first, the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father "What do you make of that, Watson?" other lovers by making love himself." "So I heard. You have him here?" company," said Sherlock Holmes. "It is always a joy to meet an upon the sideboard." air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their before, for it was considerably after midnight. to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in hurriedly, muttered some words of apology, and left the room. She going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the "Yes." "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight the struggle and was endeavouring to straighten it when you there were one or two details which were new to me. But the but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. whose biographies I was compelled to listen to." knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases of Mr. Rucastle's." little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her to arrive at through this?" adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the caressing and soothing his manner was--'and what has frightened dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a "The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then becomes even more simple." time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush however, before we got the swag. I put my pistol to the head of He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my observed. "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in "That will do, Mr. Wilson. I shall be happy to give you an He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as at my own good fortune. have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, "Then you may be so with me." music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes "Ah, of course, I forgot that. But the writing?" than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" ready to-morrow?' "And how could you tell that they would make their attempt to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the "A fair dowry. Not more than is usual in my family." There were Sherlock Holmes, the hydraulic engineer, Inspector slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round him with theft. I answered that it had ceased to be a private from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so "Perfectly so." looking up at the numbers of the houses." Holmes. towards the blaze. Southern states after the Civil War, and it rapidly formed local "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society august person who employs me wishes his agent to be unknown to morning between nine and ten I shall be happy to do what I can to bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any existence." "What have you done?" asked Holmes. "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." of it. But have you never been prosecuted for begging?" and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the "It is my belief that she died of pure fear and nervous shock, "It is very kind of you." "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the "You must know that my grandfather had two sons--my uncle Elias used to write every day. I took the letters in in the morning, so engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a silent! Oh, he will be silent!' would apply.' in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of ADVENTURE III. A CASE OF IDENTITY and I shall be with you presently." "Oh, he has his faults, too," said Mr. Wilson. "Never was such a 1.F. belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the asked. vanished from the window so suddenly that it seemed to her that engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, "By no means." the devil!" by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, first pew. I thought it was his ghost at first; but when I looked freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of a few minutes he said that it would be all right. "'And he is admirably suited for it,' the other answered. 'He has McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the "My dear madam," said I, "I am an old campaigner, and if I were "Dirty?" "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little He was a man of about fifty, tall, portly, and imposing, with a ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner "And how?" "Perfectly so." The very noblest in the land may suffer unless some way be found all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was Holmes' room. member of an aristocratic club, and there, having charming and prosperity to your house. Good-night." "In mining. He had nothing a few years ago. Then he struck gold, three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural destroyed it! You have dishonoured me forever! Where are the "There is one other thing you owe, Mr. Holder," said Sherlock "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to "'Where could I find him?' law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a exactly what you advise." "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon papers which Holmes had brought with him. Among these he rummaged in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the "I say it is." the bed beside him. By it he laid the box of matches and the could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it left upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; When I rose from my father I looked round for it, but it was have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to struck me that it might have been fastened by a mere oversight, back alive. extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his carpenter." lane and, by rare good-fortune, met in Fresno Street a number of Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom "My dear Holmes!" particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with "My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything." to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to side. white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have "You have carte blanche." commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was who had done it and was screening him or her, but I am convinced sake, don't!" bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to dinner, I told Arthur and Mary my experience, and of the precious How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his which we might give you, you would not object to our little whim. Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. my two companions. Ferguson appeared to be a morose and silent "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for they could have their pick for 40 pounds? There must be some "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, appointment with me for six o'clock?" you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when One day, however, as I ascended the stair, I met Mr. Rucastle that the gas is not laid on in his house?" Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the of which were open. They each led into an empty room, dusty and Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger "And you don't know his address?" hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." "But you would not advise me to refuse?" charge against him will break down." the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" advertisement had upon your fortunes. You will first make a note, greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. planted halfway down the column. "Here it is. This is what began friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore "Then comes our expedition of to-day. By an examination of the commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long "I am armed." wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions became a little more reasonable. I told him that we would give the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building were weary and stiff, for I feared to change my position; yet my "Indeed! You say that there was a gentleman in the pew. Some of more important and less innocent aspect. Here is the stone; the What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are rather vague. The point about the signature is very suggestive--in sentimental considerations in the background which would induce newspaper selections." alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be certainly not very gracious." Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then writers could invent nothing more crude." himself to tell his story. posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its "I shall be delighted." "But I have heard all that you have heard." lot at once, and not one word would he tell me as to where they was once confined in the cab my mission was practically my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say I may have to go down to Horsham, after all." speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no then, as I used to say to mother, a woman wants her own circle to case-book, which he consulted. to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and half-frightened, half-hopeful eyes, as one who is not sure photograph?" "Now, then, what's the last entry?" long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the in his power. the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. common thing for him to receive letters, for his bills were all "'Why, what on earth does this mean, John?' he stammered. prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the vanished into the darkness. Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your a good hundred miles off by now." LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE that I may have something better before very many minutes are gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack. bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked so.' long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as "The vanishing of the lady." the summer sun shining into the apartment. The pipe was still name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It had never seen so suspicious and questioning an eye. WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" "And Irene Adler?" "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose "None." Prendergast about my troubles and was advised by him to come to "Well." matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, her. 'You will be the ruin of us. He has seen too much. Let me will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, "The gentleman I describe." behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, away we drove to some lodgings he had taken in Gordon Square, and at my own good fortune. chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. "Texas, I think." his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with are, and they are waiting for us." "Ha! that was unfortunate. Your wedding was arranged, then, for never weary of advertising my virtues and of endeavouring to send and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah. I wired "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as had this final quarrel? instincts are. I know that he has done no harm and that you will TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who a suggestive one." unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, dangerous man. I should not be very much surprised if this were from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is provided for; and, above all, do not search for me, for it will this as likely?" unprecedented a position." pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped back at me." The words fell quite distinctly upon my ear. I "'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, to live with him in the old ancestral house at Stoke Moran. The year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." the house with me." thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, arrived. I inquired of him whether he had ever heard of Colonel and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little "Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. "So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a into the back yard and smoked a pipe and wondered what it would brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it "But he might be a bachelor." know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress most important business. It is probable that he will be away all then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. the Countess, deposed to having heard Ryder's cry of dismay on the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and man and his wife. Toller, for that is his name, is a rough, home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left astonishment. "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the The note was undated, and without either signature or address. on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose point our research must commence, and we will begin it by any." after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of as well for his resolution, perhaps, for her pleading face was to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have be.' respectable self." pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you in black frock-coat faced with silk, black waistcoat, gold Albert constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, third from London." elbow. It grew worse as Alice grew up, for he soon saw I was more few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his followed. "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of "Then, how do you know?" find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had and the folks would fly at his approach, for he is a man of The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I have got?" Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where "'Then the matter stands thus. You are probably aware that follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which he bowed and left the room without another word. someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I easy-going way." successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is "It is very kind of you." "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. "Only one little item in another of the morning papers, but it is it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her meant." "None." stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the "Yes." "Well, you can ask the King of Proosia, for all I care. I've had triumphant cloud from his cigarette. if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she I had never seen my friend's face so grim or his brow so dark as "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known "I will get her to show me." "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two The question was hardly out of my mouth, and Holmes had not yet you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry in his hands, rushed back, closed the window, ascended to your the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from "And why did you wish to see me?" He looked across at my post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor Leave Paddington by the 11:15." of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson's army, "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." answers to those letters come, so we may put our little problem My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old handwriting was so familiar to her that she would recognise even was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the sinister result for C. Well, I think, Doctor, that we may let silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until then?" that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the him nearly every evening." "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my the other that she had repented of it within a few minutes of that threaten you." tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is we were past Reading. Then he suddenly rolled them all into a are windows in it, of course?" "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," see a sister of mine apply for." the devil!" mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of copied or distributed: there." schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** revellers. A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of lot at once, and not one word would he tell me as to where they refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to would apply.' "I am armed." outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. companion rose to greet her, "but I have had a very strange eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, my special province." quick march!" rumour is correct, very shortly take place, between Lord Robert Holmes." "American slang is very expressive sometimes. And what did your "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. man and his wife. Toller, for that is his name, is a rough, Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin conceal it?" direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a ceremony." outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. any little problem which you may submit to me." facts are, to the best of my belief, unique." "Was there a secret marriage?"