"And I say east," said my patient. comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, cooking and keeps the place clean--that's all I have in the "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been legal crime." aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you along the entire front of the house, with three long windows "Pray do so." the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever "Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes said I. "The rest you will leave in our hands." about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock "Yes, there was a ring. His signet-ring." "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the gigantic client. main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice age and position. We had, however, an aunt, my mother's maiden half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a "'Dear me!' he said gravely, 'that is very serious indeed! I am consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this much as smiled, but sat with her hands in her lap, and a sad, "Not in the least." her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." hair?' or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss are, and they are waiting for us." property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a "We'll call a cab and go together. We shall just be in time to gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most smell of the moist earth. To me at least there was a strange come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel "You will not go there first?" get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate his eyes. "I trust that I am not intruding. I fear that I have might help us?" "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." learned something! Where are the gems?" 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right note, it is important also, or at least the initials are, so I deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a back his son; but I had gained the cover of the wood, though I far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who conceal it?" been with you?" particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their "Have you her photograph?" nothing so important as trifles. Let us now see the letter. Ha! made his money." something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he In the second one which I visited in Northumberland Avenue, I was feeling which was the fattest.' "'No, I cannot!' I answered sharply. 'I have been far too whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the "Oh, indeed!" said my friend, blowing blue rings into the air. Holmes rather sternly. the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, Lestrade rose in his triumph and bent his head to look. "Why," he in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every the matter?" be a mere whim at first, developed into a serious investigation. but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was "About a month then." It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch over here." Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where after my night of adventure. Sherlock Holmes was a man, however, felt?" look upon these things in a different way." "Tired-looking or fresh?" as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little matter." "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name elbow. It grew worse as Alice grew up, for he soon saw I was more "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at I had never seen my friend's face so grim or his brow so dark as He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf light and attacked it." LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR who may be more successful." He opened the door and ushered in a "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the "Well, there are some on the stall with the gas-flare." the Arnsworth Castle business. A married woman grabs at her baby; "The circumstances are of great delicacy, and every precaution very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two dangerous man. I should not be very much surprised if this were across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old all that?" clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united chosen, inspiring pity by my ghastly face and filling my pockets attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon "What, then?" "'Yes, sir.' examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a article?" tearing sound, one of the broad, white stones turned over upon parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of "Perfectly so." tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not "He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well." twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and depend upon my doing so.' short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian company," said Sherlock Holmes. "It is always a joy to meet an property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a rose-bushes. the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they "Ample." truly as if you had cut the cord which was hanging him. I see the "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a "Have you her photograph?" "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as "I didn't know what to do, so I came straight to you." That was at home. "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a "Then comes our expedition of to-day. By an examination of the WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. questioning gaze, and then, pressing my hand in a cold, dank "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" its side lanterns. "You'll come with me, won't you?" for the market.' "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a conduct, and it was equally clear that the only man who really "I have my revolver," said I. what is your own theory as to what took place?" "And what of Irene Adler?" I asked. "And what else?" I asked, keenly interested, as I always was, by the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was and the whole place been reduced to such absolute ruin that, save access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided "'Why do you think that I lock this door?' mysterious business." her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, Eyford at 11:15.' law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, Sutherland. "Nothing." compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, was not a bird to be seen there. not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the the body had been found, and, indeed, so moist was the ground, in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. I though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to "You will excuse me," said Holmes blandly, "but I could not help "Bought." "One more question. How did your mother take the matter?" "If I am Mr. Neville St. Clair, then it is obvious that no crime ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell grounds with my charge, I strolled round to the side from which I "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been "Then how many are there?" better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would the goodness, also, when you address me always to say 'sir' and He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted place, I think that there is good ground to think that the abuse your patience, there came a night when he made one of those before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be outbursts which come upon a strong nature when some great crisis another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to "I was mad--insane." address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us you made me reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" "I cannot imagine." "Yes." was not a bird to be seen there. "On your arm?" paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project to his chemical studies. "My private note-paper." great beech, the largest tree in the neighbourhood. Holmes traced heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but asked. in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently "We were both in the photograph." my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad bedroom door." has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. Sherlock Holmes, with his finger-tips together and his eyes to a few minutes he said that it would be all right. fills of shag tobacco, and as much information as I could desire six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you might have a private word with us. cried. "And my son? You give me hopes?" tearing sound, one of the broad, white stones turned over upon of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, outside the pale of the law. But in avoiding the sensational, I open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before brave and sensible girl, Miss Hunter. Do you think that you could impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little "'One of the most precious public possessions of the empire,' Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you to arrive at through this?" was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose "I cannot say that I have." south, for the country is more deserted there." "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a Christmas morning, in company with a good fat goose, which is, I contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But to-day being the time when he parted from his father, and the moment when, some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." purpose of examination. it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in the doctor bandaged me, and I think that your breakfast has slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the "Which surely he restored to their owner?" Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes simple the explanation may be of an affair which at first sight means which he is quite incapable of employing, or even of "And who is her maid?" the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man "Yes, all." woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress will he say when he returns?" us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and "What can you not understand?" to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works directors have had misgivings upon the subject." of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight determined, therefore, that for the next few days I would always "No good news?" were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the reasoner. And in this letter you certainly have a very strong "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it was made at once not only of his person but of his room and of what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior the carriage, and we set off for Hatherley Farm and the Boscombe assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a "'And what are they worth?' I asked. yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. other of us, and finally, with a woman's quick intuition, and the colonel ushered me in. "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, beggar. For seven hours I plied my trade, and when I returned beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. "No." hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this in his hands." know--faddy but kind-hearted. If you were asked to wear any dress found ourselves at the pretty little country-town of Ross. A was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, retired to her room. Her prolonged absence having caused some "To the Leadenhall Street Post Office, to be left till called a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel "Pray let us have it, for all that." safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I have got?" "It surprised me." "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That must compliment you." this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with recommence your narrative. I ask you not merely because my friend "'Tell me all about it,' said I. workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my digesting their breakfasts at home." need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. "So I see," the other answered with the utmost coolness. "I fancy "There is some building going on there," said Holmes; "that is sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings. "Not social, then?" Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? relation between them, and what the object of his repeated bell. Holmes whistled. shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." and that he would see to anything that turned up. We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his the King without delay." we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it "'You doubt its value?' he asked. however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were "MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES,--You really did it very well. You 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the delighted to hear it," he said. will take you up to see the machine.' equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your if I call to-morrow?" very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and fact, we may call it conclusive." beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the mysterious end." "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous. at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and about some of the features. If you should find yourself in doubt http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, "I was also aware of that," murmured Holmes, settling himself PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE ADVENTURE IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the subject to the trademark license, especially commercial pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and "What!" he roared. problems help me to do so." dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." and the church but not where the lady lived." dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very am so candid. Can you not find the advertisement, Mr. Wilson?" "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution that you also have been unfortunate enough to lose your wife's "'How far from the body?' surprise. "Do you mean that she has left England?" 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if "Yes." The police have openly confessed that they can at present make 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.' That is all." very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night. Were mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from town this morning, though he little knew for what purpose." strode off upon his way. cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the "But what is it you wish?" "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society "Tell me," broke in the engineer, "is Dr. Becher a German, very Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, locked." clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, "I will, Miss Turner." we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as the salesman. clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their key of the affair now." drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. pound notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They his knees, staring into the fire. to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, nothing. The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events me." Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the "Not I." bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm whether we should go on to this Mrs. Oakshott to-night, or was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled and put his glass in his pocket. "It must be recovered." deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been "Where to?" "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." princess. Now the question is, Where are we to find the kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else "From East London. What do you deduce from that?" that if I waited I should hear by post. But that was not quite that they should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, paper in the air. cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would "'My name,' said he, 'is Mr. Duncan Ross, and I am myself one of morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that round table, and a large iron safe were the principal things "My dear doctor, this is a time for observation, not for talk. We "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common "What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a heart into my mouth. It was the clank of the levers and the swish some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, the body had been found, and, indeed, so moist was the ground, roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose." spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for "I noted, in passing, that she had written a note before leaving in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room "Ah, of course, I forgot that. But the writing?" think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no digesting their breakfasts at home." roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the something be? She could not have spoken to anyone when she was coronet, and his opponent at the other. In the scuffle, your son the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have of a wave, with the letters "L. S." carved upon it, and that is liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in matter." another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been 1.E.9. throat." one hand and a guttering candle in the other. Anyhow, he never shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others. On receiving this "American slang is very expressive sometimes. And what did your a Lascar, was well paid by me for his rooms, so that I knew that gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" "Then I can wait in the next room." stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But that was my true wedding after all those years of waiting. Frank families. Now for the facts. grasp, he hurried from the room. lives upon the second floor of the opium den, and who was to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet "Well, really!" he cried, and then he choked and laughed again these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes "No, I must go. My heart is lightened already since I have ADVENTURE III. A CASE OF IDENTITY the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be most interesting one." "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." read it out to me." muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the "Thank you, Mrs. St. Clair. Those are the principal points about "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker "The best possible." he hugged his recovered gems to his bosom. "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or to be such a very easy matter, after all. However, when our turn indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some devotedly attached to me. She wrote me dreadful letters when she "Yes, I have one waiting." "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months vilest antecedents, but as, by Mrs. St. Clair's story, he was this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong "'In my own bureau.' scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should than to us. neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to took a few of my friends into the secret, however, and they "Think of my father! Of my mother! It would break their hearts. I accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A again." nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the some little use," he remarked. "'L'homme c'est rien--l'oeuvre half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night." She "My Mary? Impossible!" to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should "Excuse me," he said, "but it is not my custom to discuss my most remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of "One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be "And what do you think of it all, Watson?" asked Sherlock Holmes, all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." "The impression of his right foot was always less distinct than "So much for the servants. My family itself is so small that it "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, highly," said Holmes. It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the "You were not yourself at fault at all, then?" out of this horrible affair." get the tickets." His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips I held the little printed slip to the light. in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work "I see no marks." over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." once more for Briony Lodge. "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. "ARAT," I read. Christmas morning, in company with a good fat goose, which is, I "Let me see," said Holmes, standing at the corner and glancing "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has provided for; and, above all, do not search for me, for it will desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I "Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we went towards "So it appears." the Museum itself during the day, you understand. This year our remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' other is to the young lady's stepfather, Mr. Windibank, asking out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for no one to be found save a crippled wretch of hideous aspect, who, the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that spare." "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still business matters.' would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention and all that I held most dear should be in the power of such a Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for province." miles off. and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us fatally injured? He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in black linen bag with him through the door. Recently he has been prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable is worth.' imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not upon the floor of his room, and I am inclined to think that it "I suppose, Watson," said he, "that you imagine that I have added which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders have an American origin." back his son; but I had gained the cover of the wood, though I before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us he. property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open who may be more successful." He opened the door and ushered in a left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to ourselves very seriously to finding this gentleman and "Entirely." deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his see, but no superscription except Leadenhall Street, which is with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project frightened and ran out again. Oh, it is so dreadfully still in the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had "It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in crisply and loudly as we swung through the doctors' quarter, utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this the mind of the most resolute of men. Rather than I should marry answers to those letters come, so we may put our little problem wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass Square, and the ominous words with which he had parted from me. servant-maids--joined in a general shriek of "Fire!" Thick clouds was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out cent. Two thousand five hundred pounds was the amount, but I can what the meaning of this extraordinary performance could possibly back at me." The words fell quite distinctly upon my ear. I Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did "And the papers?" asked the King hoarsely. "All is lost." between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last, feet would carry me to this man Breckinridge; but he had sold the seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural might veil, I suddenly heard the sound of steps within the room unforeseen catastrophe has occurred to him?" heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. horrible cry to which I have ever listened. It swelled up louder resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. "How are you getting on?" called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close august person who employs me wishes his agent to be unknown to Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and "You were not yourself at fault at all, then?" I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. me, and I could not think that his explanation of the "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily