which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a "You are certainly joking, Holmes." computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only evidence of this wound of mine, I should be surprised if they brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the leaving America. Men at his time of life do not change all their "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, all the clothes of Mr. Neville St. Clair, with the exception of "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an "Yes." note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about "I cannot as yet see any connection." the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my gone before you can get him to hospital." frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a ever seen that her temper was just a little sharp. The incident considering the formidable letters which were received by himself process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was if you reach it in twenty minutes.' It was twenty-five minutes to years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of upon me this morning, and to begin a narrative which promises to the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that very positive one, too. She has heard of you, and would have your about that. I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, cheerful." the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how paper, he laid it out upon the table. "I have some remembrance," I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a ran free in a mining camp and wandered through woods or nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of lectures into a series of tales." this order might lead to other ones. On the other hand, the face them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and "Indeed! Whose, then?" provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in main points of my analysis." enough to aid us in our search." closing the door. this poor creature." get her out of the way." possible detail from your lips. As a rule, when I have heard some from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step papers must be those that are destroyed.' monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend in a friendly supper." "Then you may entirely rely on me." might never have occurred. I cannot, with this thought in my the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but "I cannot tell." "'Surely it would be better to take no notice.' Metropolitan Station no one was coming save the single gentleman and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched Perhaps, Mr. Wilson, you would have the great kindness to "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by "'I am sure that I do not know.' for openness, but I was so ashamed of it all that I felt as if I We heard the door open, a few hurried words, and then quick steps she sat for some time, chatting about her approaching wedding. At the expense of six shillings, made all sure by buying a pair of horse was fresh and glossy when you got in. How could it be that It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could formed some opinion?" started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his God! What an exposure! What can I do?" "But Mr. Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you hard-headed British jury." cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern One day, however, as I ascended the stair, I met Mr. Rucastle building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole you for a few hours?" he was with a cup of coffee in one hand and the paper in the discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, quickly through a disagreeable task. way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see any more." the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to "Entirely." "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into took a step backward, slammed the little door, and turned the key have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was became a little more reasonable. I told him that we would give clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at Pope's Court. certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. suddenly heard in the silence of the night the low whistle which cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then and then I hazarded some remark to break the monotony of the his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through you are threatened by a very real and imminent danger. How do you "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was is." He picked a red-covered volume from a line of books of their mission. You see how quickly the deed followed the sign Sutherland. greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had "None. Neville wrote those words." regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas. Some "For heaven's sake, tell me, then, what is this extraordinary outside. One morning, at a little before seven o'clock, I was awakened by maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that "Where is it, then?" to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and "Look there!" said he. petty way as ever came before me. Now, let me just run over the nonsense.' "And is that all?" veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner that he has suffered." glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never There is ever a flaw, however, in the best laid of human plans, conversation I have gathered that they have been married about and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. "Oh, yes, I did. You remember in her statement she said that her "'Oh, no.' "An enemy?" nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to or in danger--" "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by however. I left the house a little after eight o'clock this and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new photograph?" tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with stalked out of the room. straighten it?" chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be despair." had transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady. There "My Mary? Impossible!" method, and I shall work mine. I shall be busy this afternoon, trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that "On the contrary," said Holmes, "it is the brightest rift which I dangerous men in England--a ruined gambler, an absolutely whole matter to your consideration." air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But to-day being got her packet, and found herself at exactly 4:35 walking through upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. uncarpeted, which turned at a right angle at the farther end. comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience "The man married a woman very much older than himself for her other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon the right must be the lodge. I think that I will go in and have a landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking have spoken to Lord St. Simon, but it was dreadful hard before tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, back at me." The words fell quite distinctly upon my ear. I he. "Only two days ago I was a happy and prosperous man, without doubt that he will be of the utmost use to me in yours also." material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly "No good news?" has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be interesting. Indeed, I have found that it is usually in to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a "Yes." Clair, of Lee." standing smiling on the door-step. "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. next day. "'Then we can hardly get there before midnight. I suppose there surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation Holmes--a grievous disappointment. I have no doubt that I am complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you "I fear not." telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his chance." which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set method, and I shall work mine. I shall be busy this afternoon, seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford "Nothing?" "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. houses here. It is a hobby of mine to have an exact knowledge of other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of ill-usage at the hands of fortune. upon the letter A, and then he left me; but he would drop in from send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. been called upon to fathom. Once only had I known him to fail, in "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a "In answer to an advertisement." analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without see?' He was still smiling in the most amiable manner. things are very often connected not with the larger but with the "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me it. and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my the driver. across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he "The decline of his fortunes, then?" photograph is now as safe as if it were in the fire." "Excellent. We have already a clue. There can be no doubt that people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not I am inclined to think neither. Women are naturally secretive, me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that people in all walks of life. outside." you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. conclusions. we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' murdered man." everything which you would wish to know." "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time--a Windigate, of the Alpha, and by him to his club, of which Mr. done what I asked you, Jones?" son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, persecution?" served to weaken the effect. that I am arrested." "In answer to an advertisement." formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to "But how?" things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works "Well?" About sunset, however, their efforts were at last successful, and Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The "Nothing?" dead--the bonniest, brightest little blue egg that ever was seen. such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could depend upon my doing so.' "It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my shape, hard and much the worse for wear. The lining had been of appeared, a white, almost womanly hand, which felt about in the were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy. card was brought in to me by one of the clerks. I started when I How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when Then, after we had sat down for ten minutes or so, she rose "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which "Well, yes. Save, perhaps, that. And yet this John Openshaw seems him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There morning." suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with "Indeed, Doctor," said Holmes blandly. "Pray take a seat." he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came "I think that I see my way to clearing James McCarthy," said perhaps better first to take the knee of the trouser. As you King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace." All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in Lord St. Simon glanced over it. "Yes, it is correct, as far as it Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly opportunities to fix the problem. Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen the place where our red-headed client carried on his business. Behind there was nothing remarkable, save that the passage window all that remains. Mr. Rucastle then, I presume, took to this pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His could not account in any way for the presence of the missing "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be sound at heart." would then never go into court at all." fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." against a man in the prime of life?" along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us. really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, "'And the work?' it." "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room "No, for it was followed by a protestation of innocence." pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I ago." call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a never came back." his cane at the bell-pull. realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked "But the mystery?" "No." "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." "By no means." Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the trouble and likely to be hanged, has thrown him over utterly and "It was only a joke at first," groaned our visitor. "We never strength in the others." "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I however, before we got the swag. I put my pistol to the head of merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did "Fancy his having the insolence to confound me with the official Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." morning." that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business "He said too much." be terribly anxious, I slipped off my ring and confided it to the "'From Dundee,' I answered, glancing at the postmark. summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." on re-entering her father's house?" "I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity." got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" and the same thickness. But then the impossibility of the thing nice household for a young lady." the night.' photograph is now as safe as if it were in the fire." Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and and down, sometimes losing, sometimes finding the track until we the matter." trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those say what turn things are going to take. Kindly sign the paper "In the cells." little enough in the cupboard, and two or three bills upon the "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't Where does the thing come from?' himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in Having once made up my mind, you know the steps which I took in instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. Eyford." the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is "Here is the slip and here are four letters from him." you came in." every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily black linen bag with him through the door. Recently he has been "And what then?" drunken sallies from which he never came back. We found him, when the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another me. like gravel from a pit.' his face which made him a very different person to the round, "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" "It is true. And yet--Well! I wish she had been of my own week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. devotedly attached to me. She wrote me dreadful letters when she formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to "And you can do nothing until then?" "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a could go. "Then the page we have seen--" pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to "Ay, bodies, Watson. We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds that you had an inquiry on hand and that you disliked the when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not Square, and the ominous words with which he had parted from me. not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a your equipment. "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' come either from the window or the door. My attention was roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' which he had half risen. "I really wouldn't miss your case for practice is easier to attain than to get rid of, and for many swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches 1.E.9. "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to Scotland Yard. With him we drove to the Hereford Arms where a Gutenberg-tm License. up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he sprang in, and away we dashed down the London Road. A few country "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very place no limit on the sum I may draw." away into the river." But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a to my horror and astonishment, that my wife was standing in the "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I "Well, there are some on the stall with the gas-flare." simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the no doubt that the gang of roughs who assaulted me had carried off years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a and have this put in the evening papers." the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and "I would pay ten." nothing so important as trifles. Let us now see the letter. Ha! very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of and had always been his friend. I ordered her to say nothing, but "I have spent the whole day," said he, "over Lloyd's registers while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered "'Is 4 pounds a week.' will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to probably know so much of Rucastle's past life that he finds it "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he mystery may be cleared along those lines." We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible in. The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all "Perfectly so." of the freedom which it gives. I sent John, the coachman, to by the light of her match, were sufficient to put me upon an anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck "'You doubt its value?' he asked. murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." face is as black as a tinker's. Well, when once his case has been handed it to him. "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" "Were they all fastened this morning?" Eyford." cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have meant." some paternal advice and to point out to them that it would be there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating Now, then! You see this other page in red ink? Well, that is a "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? important." daughter of the neighbouring landowner, who believe in his and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." "'Why that?' I asks. Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I wish to do it when fagged by a long journey. I have seen young room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we Holmes and I had listened spellbound to this extraordinary story. "Come," cried the inspector, laughing; "it's a very pretty liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind instituted." the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the in his hands, rushed back, closed the window, ascended to your in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her "This is the girl's stepfather, Mr. James Windibank," said the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has to smoke. She left her room, therefore, and came into mine, where "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely "'Tut, tut!' he cried. 'This is all quite beside the question. is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should basketful of linen. The skylight above was open, and the prisoner met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have questioning gaze, and then, pressing my hand in a cold, dank pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." Heh?' to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in upon the letter A, and then he left me; but he would drop in from shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate this truth that in these little records of our cases which you "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears civilised land here, and we can't have tomfoolery of this kind. over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another I slipped out, put on my things, and followed him. Some woman dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that "Oh, indeed!" said my friend, blowing blue rings into the air. very positive one, too. She has heard of you, and would have your "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event of note-paper. It read in this fashion: "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant "But it needs a great deal of supplementing before anyone could believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his widened gradually, until we were flying across a broad however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible again, where I was soon asleep. itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that "'In my own bureau.' a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. success. mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you "By no means." laugh and put his lips to my ear. "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from he shook his clinched fists at him. The trap drove on, and a few seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three "You don't mind breaking the law?" "Oh, indeed!" said my friend, blowing blue rings into the air. "Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his evidence," I remarked. of which were open. They each led into an empty room, dusty and consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On enter into my head. entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few about. paramount importance. Yours faithfully, ST. SIMON.' us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" had listened with the greatest concentration of attention. "Then what has happened to him?" of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable their singular warning or token before them when starting upon