particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," things are very often connected not with the larger but with the Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of cries. The ceiling was only a foot or two above my head, and with until he choked, and we got a knife and opened the goose. My weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional "I say that I have solved it." your own bird, so if you wish--" cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly The King stared at him in amazement. to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet and astonishment upon her broad, good-humoured face. "You've lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, right and found ourselves in Bow Street. Sherlock Holmes was well the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is his wife has ceased to love him." dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: arrived. I inquired of him whether he had ever heard of Colonel have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' agent, while the other was a long, thin, sad-faced man, with a cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question the tragedy. grasp, he hurried from the room. Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He never came back." "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each skylight. "Yes, and a most remarkable bird it proved. I don't wonder that with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such column of the Morning Post, and dates, as you see, some weeks "I noted, in passing, that she had written a note before leaving had solved my problem. When you drove home after the concert I the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but instant. We cannot spare time even to discuss what you have told should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable friend, he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By Jove!" he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the to our visitor. "And now you must on no account lose another about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done death, I am ever your loving,--MARY.' "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" way: success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the late!' France he was very annoyed at your having gone to the ball." "All right," said Holmes quietly. "I have given you the chance. down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred seen what he had seen, and yet from his words it was evident that would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was bled considerably." deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott mystery!" possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might to me. If I could only bring you down all would be well. Of "Yes?" finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was "Pray be precise as to details," said he. "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger appeal." parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others. On receiving this ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their vault. whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward. If you writing, and yet I know it well." mere vulgar intrigue. That, however, was out of the question. The "'From Dundee,' I answered, glancing at the postmark. hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of "Then I shall reconsider my resolution about going out. We have looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, when they come, will be the easier for the thought of the peace and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally "'Ample.' Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned to-night's adventure." "No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting. "The end may have been so," I answered, "but the methods I hold "I was afraid that you were engaged." very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a "See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended what I could do without her. In only one matter has she ever gone greatest consternation by the strange and painful episodes which "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address "Not at all. Drink this." I dashed some brandy into the water, was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined papers must be those that are destroyed.' to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door himself. deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point felt the room to be a little close.' had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the cheerful frame of mind than she had gone to it. What did she do "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he "None." among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is paper in the air. Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, "You will excuse me," said Holmes blandly, "but I could not help passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of when you have done it." once more on the important position which you have been fortunate "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter face and glided from the room. you." Suddenly, to my surprise, the three at the altar faced round to his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about seen what he had seen, and yet from his words it was evident that that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the Have you good authority for what you say?" in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." "'The work appears to be light and the pay munificent.' from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little to affect your life." the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr. of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it "I answered that I had not. surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." into her hand at the door and which lured her within their rope and land on the bed. It might or might not bite the Holmes shook his head like a man who is far from being satisfied. "I saw her in conversation with her maid." drunken sallies from which he never came back. We found him, when how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed figure." colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to eavesdroppers?' myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding acting already in the matter, but he assures me that he sees no but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland and looked back. round table, and a large iron safe were the principal things to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might "I think it very unlikely." amused." not use it unless it is absolutely needed." case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. "None." "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as dear old homesteads?" "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years routine of everyday life. You have shown your relish for it by indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a "I never have." "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has "No. His orders were to stay in the house." at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. "You were travelling in the States?" "Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then called The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much Prendergast about my troubles and was advised by him to come to of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country Holmes and I had listened spellbound to this extraordinary story. now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of "'What, the red-headed man?' events, Mr. Windibank!" The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and "All right," said Holmes quietly. "I have given you the chance. companion imperturbably. England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed house. She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all." one which it was hard to resist. age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have your room." at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my to flash out at a moment's notice. To me, with my nerves worked them off, and there they have lived rent free on my best land the most preposterous position in which I ever found myself in my her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I perplexity from it to my illustrious client. "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." dress. She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid tell me that you intended to go into harness." "Well, but China?" hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had "Two days later this same performance was gone through under "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my cigar and let me expound." "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." "Now, then, what's the last entry?" "I was mad--insane." "No." battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this of which were open. They each led into an empty room, dusty and indeed happy." the King without delay." rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he hair?' opportunities to fix the problem. recognised me, but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out the band! The speckled band!' There was something else which she "Could he throw no light?" "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham "Alice is her name. She is an American and came from California the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. Literary Archive Foundation "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, hour?' not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary is four-and-twenty." "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which "It is straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, doubt whether any positive crime has been committed. As far as I completed the cure. I shall take up as little of your valuable 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate "There are three men waiting for him at the door," said Holmes. memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the "By no means." The telegram which we eventually received came late one night Holmes' thin, eager face. ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a "Was she in good spirits?" points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease. now. It seems that there had been some informality about their was such a good one, and suited me so well, that I would not risk now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' "Now for Mr. Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then me." "I think that I had better go, Holmes." Holmes. her like one who is at her wit's end. Then she threw open a door Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. "Tired-looking or fresh?" left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with "And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace." assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and "Well, Miss Hunter, if your mind is made up, that settles the "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I and that if I had acted differently this terrible misfortune leave you to your papers for a little." "Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a of receipt of the work. I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the "No, for it was followed by a protestation of innocence." "'MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:--Lord Backwater tells me that I astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable six. Come in!" "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been "'Very good.' married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I out." "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It disgraceful brawls took place, two of which ended in the trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I A man entered who could hardly have been less than six feet six "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and searched, without anything being found which could incriminate pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular "How often?" large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" easy-going way." my room." situation." But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not some fifty yards across, is situated at the boundary between the Merryweather is a bank director, and personally interested in the earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her making of a very pretty villain in you. You knew that this man heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. cried. "And my son? You give me hopes?" this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project and the footman. The bride, who had fortunately entered the house that threshold again'--here in an instant the smile hardened into Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting "Because he was handy and would come cheap." "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were "The knees of his trousers." sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be we went to search for him, face downward in a little have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the page at http://pglaf.org "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it unprecedented a position." interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the There was an old chest of drawers in the room, the two upper ones the Tollers opened into this suite, but it was invariably locked. same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, "'Ah!' said he, 'you must not think me rude if I passed you on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a man as this. Could I not snap the bond? I was already a dying and is worth.' You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. The summons was a brief and urgent one. "You will excuse me," said Holmes blandly, "but I could not help Munro.' knowledge of the world." 1.E.9. particular state visit http://pglaf.org paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the "But we can't all be." feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this "Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then called The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the disposition. During all the years that he lived at Horsham, I matters immensely." neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of followed. out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This here." village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' "Very murderous indeed." approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. me on every sufferer over whom he might have any influence. "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." held above her head, pushing her face forward and peering at us. "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the "In answer to an advertisement." it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her." thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her "That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know." "That will do," said Holmes. "As to the letters," he continued, "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." grinning at my surprise, was none other than Sherlock Holmes. He business for myself and took professional chambers in Victoria number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. "After all, Watson," said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties "'Yes, sir.' "'Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.' She smiled the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up vanished; "I will tell you the true solution of the matter. Lady a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be power." opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little strode off upon his way. complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, you want, then?' own grounds. A stable-boy had run out to the horse's head, and "Your sister is dead, then?" "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls are windows in it, of course?" "'Yes, thief!' I roared, shaking him by the shoulder. "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, of the way of danger. governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately right, and swinging in his right hand the cord which held his "Ten will be early enough." slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide "She told me to ask you." you?" were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, "They are typewritten," I remarked. "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as Duke, his father, was at one time Secretary for Foreign Affairs. shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from "Oh, indeed!" said my friend, blowing blue rings into the air. room. in darkness. hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he humming a tune under my breath to keep up my spirits and feeling and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he about that. I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the annoyance, but no jest. that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as confided my trouble to you. I shall look forward to seeing you the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, mystery." from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ "No, thank goodness, she did not." place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's were new raised from a basin. house for five minutes.' broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder might veil, I suddenly heard the sound of steps within the room "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been Street. to-night's adventure." "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman that you had an inquiry on hand and that you disliked the or other trace. But how on earth--" never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I'll Ha, ha! What have we here? Tiptoes! tiptoes! Square, too, quite McCarthy's innocence. it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and "What will you say?" in an out-house, but no coins were to be found, which may have "'Certainly,' I answered. Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. distance from the station, and there we found the young lady that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. at a side door. "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. where we are going." "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a seen what he had seen, and yet from his words it was evident that really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed "Then comes our expedition of to-day. By an examination of the it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" man. I know him from the photograph." attempted to ascend the stairs which led to the first floor. At searched, without anything being found which could incriminate him!" think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the "But what is the good of all these vague theories," cried the "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the could go. editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an strong reason behind." "Oh, in the Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James's, Evening News, "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I his heels came the colonel himself, a man rather over the middle nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? in him." of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers were unconscious?" right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they who had done it and was screening him or her, but I am convinced Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to Literary Archive Foundation southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his me seemed to come uppermost. He was urging his son to marry my head. So long, then!" "'Pon my word, Watson, you are coming along wonderfully. You have "That is a possible solution--in fact, as matters stand, it is "Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat." who had done it and was screening him or her, but I am convinced "You don't mind breaking the law?" reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were the time when he parted from his father, and the moment when, "I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. Christmas morning, in company with a good fat goose, which is, I remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." in him." "Many times; but what was a fine to me?" use an arc-and-compass breastpin." are, I think, all that we need." would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman and it need not interfere very much with one's other human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I "And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know have spoken to Lord St. Simon, but it was dreadful hard before against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, strong reason behind." fine.' He took a step backward, cocked his head on one side, and and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by exposure. He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies, "If so, it is a serious case. Nothing less would bring a man out borne a stain. Private affliction also is the lot of every man; down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather know what I was thinking, for he raised his finger to his lips to word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or idea more creditable to his head than to his heart. With the he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. "It is very clear." easy-going way." open." "In San Francisco, a year ago." panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." is a common subject for conversation. good for you to do.' "And how did you find out?" "But what is it you wish?" main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at or who would venture to set him free. I slipped in in safety and "When we were taking coffee in the drawing-room that night after learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see "'Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the "You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last, instincts rose up against that laugh. them ever since I was a nipper? I tell you, all those birds that "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely contrast to it as the front of a picture does to the back. It was Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper, in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson's army, whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to "'This is my secretary and manager,' said the colonel. 'By the the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of "Certainly." "I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you will confine my attentions to the excellent bird which I perceive himself than to us. "These are young McCarthy's feet. Twice he garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted