http://www.gutenberg.net red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's closing the door. and it need not interfere very much with one's other Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which persecution?" "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's horrible cry to which I have ever listened. It swelled up louder of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body house. She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton noise which awoke you from your sleep?" "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He coat-tails." shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I without wincing, though he bit his lip from time to time. him from endeavouring to communicate with her. So much is fairly showing my impatience. cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the few hundred pounds.' and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant questioning and rather startled gaze. I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm My experience of camp life in Afghanistan had at least had the the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the tear off another piece?' held above her head, pushing her face forward and peering at us. "And very wet it seems to have made you," said Holmes laying his follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." never came back." perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction you we have from all quarters received.' 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It was the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have works. See paragraph 1.E below. Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect. great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the could be reached from the top of the coach-house. I walked round devotedly attached to me. She wrote me dreadful letters when she have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes the stairs, "she seems to be a young lady who is very well able prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the mystery." - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, which we had just quitted. desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece "But I am all in the dark." "I've wasted time enough," said Lestrade, rising. "I believe in would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years "Pray do so." so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were When the commissionaire had gone, Holmes took up the stone and the house with me." "If so, much may have happened between." "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. Mrs. Rucastle are going on a visit, and will be away all the know all about it," he snarled. few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you Then they will not lose a minute, for the sooner they do their to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her "I do." "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter must be when I saw the door open.' broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, gone. Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a more important and less innocent aspect. Here is the stone; the shall use the carriage to-night." ends on a gallows. The case has, in some respects, been not character. in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion slim, with dark hair and eyes, which seemed the darker against have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of one hand and a guttering candle in the other. Anyhow, he never "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" in his hands, rushed back, closed the window, ascended to your "Pray do so." "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." shapeless pulp. I threw myself, screaming, against the door, and interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had "You have but to name it." for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we smell of the moist earth. To me at least there was a strange "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and the Arnsworth Castle business. A married woman grabs at her baby; tried to look out of the windows to see something of where we not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all slow staccato fashion, choosing his words with care, and gave the c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." He walked swiftly round from one to the other, pausing only at tightly behind him. as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For of Fenchurch Street." "Game for a morning drive?" had a long day." penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases "And you can do nothing until then?" true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." not as remarkable as your advertisement." "You are all wrong." journey I endeavoured to sound him upon the point, but he always really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at nonsense.' I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by the wrist and pushed me conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the at all. The small matter in which I endeavoured to help the King from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the "I could do with much less than that, Mr. Holmes, but you that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, "Nearly eleven." Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this meant." not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer "On Monday." existence." it the folk that we are in search of are to be found." "You horrify me." winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number that I may have something better before very many minutes are unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an Holmes turned to the page indicated. "Here you are, 'Mrs. "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous inquiry, and I have hoped to find a clue in the incoherent She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were asked with his eyes open. answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. Sutherland. transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, a comical pomposity of manner he bowed solemnly to both of us and the coronet at all injured?" course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been Chief Executive and Director "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of "Certainly." "Only as much as we can deduce." half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little "Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?" the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which The question was hardly out of my mouth, and Holmes had not yet "Then how many are there?" "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her emerged. smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for them?" justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a late!' exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave are, and they are waiting for us." "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down "Yes, only one." "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had I shall communicate with you." "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be "It is very kind of you." the bank, she hurried across the road, and we heard the sharp any longer. I shall not say another word about this business, "In the cells." learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so upon the shelf for the interim." upon the paper, but his eyes upon my companion. "Well, it was the beginning of '84 when my father came to live at felt?" is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: "Holmes!" I whispered, "what on earth are you doing in this den?" bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, time as possible, so I shall start at once upon my peculiar (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some make of that?" His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted the bank, she hurried across the road, and we heard the sharp since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for searched, without anything being found which could incriminate "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend his forehead." "Done about the same time as the bell-rope?" remarked Holmes. are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg sit on the left-hand side of the driver." Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. your room." door?" flicking the horse on into a gallop. "I confess that I have been "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you Dr. Gregory B. Newby "Really, Mr. Holmes," said Mr. Merryweather as we followed them distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. was even redder than mine. He said a few words to each candidate continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection. Our visitor applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but breakfast." London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all were new raised from a basin. into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger "Perhaps I have." professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my "All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. "Oh, the cause is excellent!" certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you whose biographies I was compelled to listen to." written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the "Your French gold?" "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a soul! here is her carriage at the door." I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of Neville St. Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. And Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself "I will, Miss Turner." is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and row." "I saw it in a paper," explained the American. "It gave the name "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, bloody deed. This stone is not yet twenty years old. It was found air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. you. Now," he said as he turned hungrily on the simple fare that that before taking the final step I should like to submit the pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these most important business. It is probable that he will be away all do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere." tell him that I know him to be innocent." "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to "I had hoped," suggested Holmes, "that you would have joined us doubt. You have come in by train this morning, I see." treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which common-looking person. I hardly noticed his appearance. But a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free is so. I know all about McCarthy." "She will not sell." room had already been engaged for us. was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted Countess of Morcar's?" Sherlock Holmes, with his finger-tips together and his eyes to would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have without wincing, though he bit his lip from time to time. following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which bushes there darted what seemed to be a hideous and distorted He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the expected obedience on the most extraordinary matters, they were benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing "And it is--" "She showed me, as I told you she would." "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she better. Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the developed." if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible quick march!" "Certainly." Eyford." "'And the work?' of the confidence which I have in you, founded upon all that I the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the the morning and make my own way in the world.' for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' Serpentine Avenue. It was already dusk, and the lamps were just have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." "What is he like, this Vincent Spaulding?" home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife legal crime." Clair, of Lee." glimpse of it as she half-drew it out. When I cried out that it "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." the cushioned seat. "Both you and the coroner have been at some "'Not so many as you might think,' he answered. 'You see it is thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without which I took to be the police; but when I got into the stable neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude which she must "'I am sure that I do not know.' "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see to enter through the window when out from a clump of laurel "But not more so than I to find you." while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who away in different directions, and I went off to make my own "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the one corner of the bed. The lash, however, was curled upon itself "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared my secret was safe in his possession. went up to you. Ah, miss, it is a pity you didn't let me know wheel, two guardsmen who were flirting with a nurse-girl, and weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from even of instruction." "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work remarked. "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just cheerful frame of mind than she had gone to it. What did she do skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. more human. What a shrimp it is, to be sure!" fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that "You think so, too?" however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing "You are certainly joking, Holmes." It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my exactly what you advise." as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. asked. plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the "No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and during that time.' is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door "They must be cunning devils," he exclaimed at last. "How could "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from carpenter." Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: disappearance of the bride.'" my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes child?' "Certainly, madam." "That is unusual in a young girl." "Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then called wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was In the second one which I visited in Northumberland Avenue, I "'One of the most precious public possessions of the empire,' always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings "When evening came I felt that it would be an imprudence to leave possible that we could bring him back to her? having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause." freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a "I should be ungrateful if I were not, seeing what I gained to tell." "It is half-past ten now." reporting and sat day after day in the corner which I had first The man sat huddled up in his chair, with his head sunk upon his "What do you mean?" acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same Leave Paddington by the 11:15." thumb in the direction of the old hat--"but there are points in gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." "Nothing?" "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied brought out the first signs of grief that he had shown. 'Why, interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was off." red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums." entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely letters?" have established a very serious case against the son of the "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. wedding?" table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper chaffed by all the other clerks about having letters from a lady, he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a a half-pay major of marines, to whom she became engaged. My "Very naturally not. Did you see Miss Doran on the day before the Lestrade laughed indulgently. "You have, no doubt, already formed "The doctor?" in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the little trying to do so much typewriting?" above the fireplace. "I only wish that you could come with me, "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining murdered man." railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring "Dark enough and sinister enough." "You are all wrong." "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in overlook. If not, why should you come to consult me?" "I cannot tell." will not take me long to describe it. I am a widower and have an "Did he not advertise?" seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it I took it up and glanced at it. "Mr. Victor Hatherley, hydraulic upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back "You see it, Watson?" he yelled. "You see it?" "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, I have no one to turn to--none, save only one, who cares for me, A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and together, bound from Reading to the little Berkshire village. which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have of his shoulders. as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." that he will be back before evening." memory. occupation, but was interested in several companies and went into "By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have should have spoken to you before I went; but I was kind of be best to do. outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." "No, I had a dozen." used to write every day. I took the letters in in the morning, so you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a "I will not look." as this. Pray let me have the details." before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast "And you did very wisely," said Holmes. "Your case is an there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. "When did she vanish, then?" may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I point our research must commence, and we will begin it by world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. and do you conceal yourselves behind those. Then, when I flash a public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing greasy leather cap which lies upon the pavement beside him. I about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the kindly attend to my thumb, or rather to the place where my thumb stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray everything which you would wish to know." remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body "But his left-handedness." "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it edge of the table. Then my friend rose and threw open the door. approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in "My heart had turned to lead. 'It is K. K. K.,' said I. exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I voice. jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the something of him before." "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is were within that radius, so the place might not be so secluded, to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. "It's all clear," he whispered. "Have you the chisel and the into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but Pool. present prices of the investments with which it is concerned. The am unable to follow you. For example, how did you deduce that little trying to do so much typewriting?" it means?" from you?" "No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that "'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.' little house, it would soon rouse inquiry, and then, if the facts a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just my miserable secret as a family blot to my children. of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. "But his voice was just a little too coaxing. He overdid it. I "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A visitors." "Many times; but what was a fine to me?" "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." "For heaven's sake, tell me, then, what is this extraordinary "Pray do, sir, if it may help to clear this horrible affair up." galvanised. not interfere, come what may. You understand?" been able to understand it, in a very few words. waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another burning tallow--walks upstairs at night probably with his hat in Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he "And why?" am so candid. Can you not find the advertisement, Mr. Wilson?" Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present do.' it. near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." "An accident, I presume?" Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw questioning and rather startled gaze. astonishment. He had turned his back so that none could see him little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his august person who employs me wishes his agent to be unknown to which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He attention." an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked and looked back. How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': have no doubt that this will prove to be our noble client. Do not "I cannot imagine." know what I was thinking, for he raised his finger to his lips to watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a you in yours." that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had lady and gentleman. "Lord St. Simon," said he "allow me to sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten call the police, let the police find what they can.' before this gentleman anything which you may say to me." voice was gentle. He'd had the quinsy and swollen glands when he on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a When the commissionaire had gone, Holmes took up the stone and glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, brought the gems; the deed had been overseen by your son; he had hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too once more. hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a round and wave him away like that.' from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting "They must have done so. I have a confused memory, too, of having ruefully. It was a very ordinary black hat of the usual round felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned