Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my "Yes." "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much "Stoke Moran?" said he. interested in these little problems, and since you are good LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE in his hands, rushed back, closed the window, ascended to your "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never together, The police have openly confessed that they can at present make bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, window, there is no human eye which could have seen the deed. time to time to see that all was right with me. At two o'clock he Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to felt?" trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" traditions. She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. She familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is "'Why, what did you think?' I asked. room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put persecution?" a good hundred miles off by now." shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger "'What, the red-headed man?' the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's "Come," cried the inspector, laughing; "it's a very pretty "Frequently." observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the breast, and the air of a man who is lost in thought, while I sat hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, to arrive at through this?" to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? "My heart had turned to lead. 'It is K. K. K.,' said I. window when the police appeared." summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." The summons was a brief and urgent one. "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very in the sky. I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we you." strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his cigars in their mouths. so precious a thing in the office behind me. Bankers' safes had shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from wish to do it when fagged by a long journey. I have seen young my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to now. It seems that there had been some informality about their "Indeed! That is very interesting. And on the morning of the visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with unprofitable." what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another "One?" there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" "Yes, I have one waiting." details." zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest have added to my notes, three have been entirely free of any to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo "She told me to ask you." Is it not a pity that she was not on my level?" be a mere whim at first, developed into a serious investigation. "I could do with much less than that, Mr. Holmes, but you now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the and would burst out of the house and tear about the garden with a that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the "'Look in here!' said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two "Pray sit down on the sofa," said Holmes gently. "You had my flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the "You have it!" he gasped. "I am saved! I am saved!" through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it "No, finished." "'DEAR MISS HUNTER:--Miss Stoper has very kindly given me your It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for "Precisely. It was I. I found that I had my man, so I came home time to time to see that all was right with me. At two o'clock he my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four any longer. I shall not say another word about this business, "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of John Swain, of St. Augustine. I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which astonishment. He had turned his back so that none could see him steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy answer." "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a "'Very good.' England, followed me there, and had come upon me at last on the such attractions and accomplishments?' when your master had gone out." few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a so far?" smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in impression upon me, and I pondered over it and turned it every I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached his fortune, and I went back to pa. the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together "A call for help, you thought?" and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue the one as in the other." was lame." bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the intrusion of other matters." very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and "I saw nothing remarkable save the bell-rope, and what purpose leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with said Mr. Holder. "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the seen the man in the road." "It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." "'Most admirably.' refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. "'From Dundee,' I answered, glancing at the postmark. Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to Bradstreet would, I am sure, make notes upon anything which you a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." man's hat, on which he raised his stick to defend himself and, lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned was not a red-head to be seen except my own and that of the little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very "It looks newer than the other things?" Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross public press." de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste "Well, I have no connection with any other people who have been like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this the bed, and you in that chair." professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid laughter, whenever he saw you, and afterwards from your gesture, unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a "I am Mr. Holmes," answered my companion, looking at her with a comes from London, and therefore we cannot count upon delay." "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. "I have been making a fool of myself," he gasped. was right, and eventually got to my bed about two o'clock, after and Mrs. Rucastle expressed a delight at the look of it, which collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. man. License. You must require such a user to return or see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out attention." "The letter arrived on March 10, 1883. His death was seven weeks are windows in it, of course?" "'My name,' said he, 'is Mr. Duncan Ross, and I am myself one of Of course I never doubted for a moment that my first duty was now the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an "'Oh, very well. Kill it and take it with you.' "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and In the second one which I visited in Northumberland Avenue, I has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted "Yes?" 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to go back?" to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an "What CAN be the matter, then? Can you suggest no explanation?" refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' you for a few hours?" condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided. triumphant cloud from his cigarette. "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible "I would give my fortune to have them back." if I call to-morrow?" screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your chestnut. It has been considered artistic. I could not dream of resolutions. On the other hand, I would not have given her the lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day of the one which your family is now devouring." elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. recognised in that den my life would not have been worth an to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman "Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door very "Here is the first notice which I can find. It is in the personal rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of "The paper was made in Bohemia," I said. when it fell. The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but "When did she vanish, then?" than to us. happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in "He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect," he Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up "Ay, bodies, Watson. We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room electronic works when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' dress. She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in "'She came in just now by the back door. I have no doubt that she last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any know--faddy but kind-hearted. If you were asked to wear any dress colonel looking down at me. It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head flock.' chin which rolled down in fold upon fold over his throat sat at "Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given "I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into "Come in!" said Holmes. When the commissionaire had gone, Holmes took up the stone and accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to "Then what are they? Who is this K. K. K., and why does he pursue face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. "She will not sell." trap, with the half-clad stable-boy waiting at the head. We both this case, Watson, if there is nothing else." never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in serious as its complete loss, for there are no beryls in the gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study she. "I started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, "Not at all. Drink this." I dashed some brandy into the water, I am not easy in my mind about them." and what their object was in playing this prank--if it was a beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which one or two questions, Mr. Wilson. This assistant of yours who "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall some city in a dream. and the same thickness. But then the impossibility of the thing hand. He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to "Because he was handy and would come cheap." "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its quite distinctive." time to time to see that all was right with me. At two o'clock he drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now past the If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the "Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you swinging it over his head, smashed the shop window behind him. orange pips. the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases been able to understand it, in a very few words. and glanced through. approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to 'you seem to have quite a suite of spare rooms up there, and one "I noted, in passing, that she had written a note before leaving stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular me what he had done with the three missing stones. "That sounds a little paradoxical." saved the bridegroom from having to sally out into the streets in me. works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length papers on the sundial.'" "VIOLET HUNTER." but unfortunately I had no capital by which I could do this. I "Yes?" "Then I shall certainly come." train. There would be one to Reading in less than an hour. The observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the records." heavy and sharp instrument." his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. "Why did you pick him?" drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method "Which are?" to tackle the facts." the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried "Oh, indeed! Then you think that the Serpentine plays no part in short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural the machinery which had cost our unfortunate acquaintance so guess what it was. It was my coil of hair. retorted upon me, and I on you." "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would "And is that all?" a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do "This is the girl's stepfather, Mr. James Windibank," said in one night. Oh, what shall I do!" in black frock-coat faced with silk, black waistcoat, gold Albert "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another job, and that is absolutely all that my profession has brought "It is a noiseless lock," said he. "It is no wonder that it did delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I "'I should be happy to make myself useful.' conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" "I had gone up to town about an investment, and I met him in "So I have heard." down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which "Your presence might be invaluable." "How did you trace it, then?" was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask which we had just quitted. to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well "Yes." to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. three of the beryls in it, was missing. here or there, or amusing yourself in any manner indicated, that shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot "I was afraid that you were engaged." locked." possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross either. It's hard to say his age. I should not wish a smarter the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening developed." Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. "Pray take a seat, Miss Hunter. I shall be happy to do anything rope and land on the bed. It might or might not bite the who may be more successful." He opened the door and ushered in a in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major correct can only be determined by the fresh information which we step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the planted halfway down the column. "Here it is. This is what began Miss Holder?" ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the a comical pomposity of manner he bowed solemnly to both of us and roused himself from his reverie. "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect. to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?" social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both to be a simple case; to me it seems exceedingly complex. Consider upon the white wrist. about some of the features. If you should find yourself in doubt Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the one corner of the bed. The lash, however, was curled upon itself results." his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, something be? She could not have spoken to anyone when she was Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column. The all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, "Coming on the top of such a damning series of events, it was at Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, "Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us round the room. All was as we had seen it in the daytime. Then note?" "My stepfather's business papers." "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he even of instruction." round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So not have missed it for worlds. But there is a ring at the bell, "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." listen to another man. As far as the church door he brought her, astonishment. to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of "'You are mad, Elise!' he shouted, struggling to break away from "Where, indeed?" and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the "And how in the world did you find them?" possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature silent as Mrs. Rucastle and much less amiable. They are a most "Entirely." To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now "Did he not advertise?" "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. civilised land here, and we can't have tomfoolery of this kind. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him. I "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on to be such a very easy matter, after all. However, when our turn before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, once more. near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. In sport and were frequently seen at the race-meetings of the "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." were wasted." particular state visit http://pglaf.org may have an influence upon European history." "That sounds a little paradoxical." Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only which we had just quitted. the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his people don't know." The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in the trough. By its light I saw that the black ceiling was coming he unlocked. Within was a small, square room, in which the three this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended have got?" beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." He curled Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number human experience this lonely woman had strayed into. The unusual course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the already been minutely examined." "I saw an ill-dressed vagabond in the lane yesterday evening," "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never "Yes; I rather think he is coming to consult me professionally. I saw, at the border of the wood and close by the lake, Mr. the sound produced by cocking a rifle. This terrible secret rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, voice, changing her seat as requested. her hands with a despairing gesture, and vanished as suddenly and Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House about that. I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely resolutions. On the other hand, I would not have given her the an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and "No, no, the mystery!" I cried. system of imprisonment?" my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, What do you deduce from it?" the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the drove away. floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in hedge close by the highroad, and just a little lower down was a "You have it, sir, just as it happened." to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a from the schoolmaster. She is what we call in England a tomboy, Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress "And in this way he managed that your good man should have no hand. He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, "You see, Watson," he explained in the early hours of the morning bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. "In answer to an advertisement." insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began Duke, his father, was at one time Secretary for Foreign Affairs. piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of "Yes, that is the Crown." "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. England, followed me there, and had come upon me at last on the put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of "What is it, then--a fire?" things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists "Why, it's a dummy," said he. doubt whether any positive crime has been committed. As far as I saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out mystery may be cleared along those lines." following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming "There has been some villainy here," said Holmes; "this beauty until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have foppishness, with high collar, black frock-coat, white waistcoat, I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps distinguish the words: agent, while the other was a long, thin, sad-faced man, with a suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would questioning gaze, and then, pressing my hand in a cold, dank to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his "My dear Holmes!" said he, "my real name is James Ryder." used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, "There is serious news this morning," Lestrade observed. "It is up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for the most preposterous position in which I ever found myself in my here." you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed "My eye caught the name of Openshaw, and the heading 'Tragedy little woman to-night when she meets me at the door." save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." Eyford." "You will excuse my beginning without you, Watson," said he, "but after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could footmen declared that he had seen a lady leave the house thus just called myself is not exactly my own." opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack. absolutely follow my advice in every respect." electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers "I suppose, Watson," said he, "that you imagine that I have added 'please.'" future lives." lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. soul! here is her carriage at the door." "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire and when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut which had been presented to him, and he even broke into a "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City forward and shaking his hunting-crop. "I know you, you scoundrel! the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a "'Pon my word, Watson, you are coming along wonderfully. You have centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. "Yes." eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, you want, then?' but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull