why she should interfere with your Majesty's plan." struck me that it might have been fastened by a mere oversight, "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong any assistance, either to you or to my friend here, I shall be was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here be best to do. "'Then we can hardly get there before midnight. I suppose there "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had License. You must require such a user to return or agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to the stones. soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." I am inclined to think neither. Women are naturally secretive, not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in "So I heard. You have him here?" de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: "'Ah!' said he, 'you must not think me rude if I passed you strength." great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came "Yes, and I confess that the contents startled me beyond measure. of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been my room." success. conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a in your London, you will know that the office of the company is shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, "From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a acted in my house last night?" direction." broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to part of his face, extending down past the cheekbones, a black "That you are never beaten." age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. opened the door, and slipped through. kindly on the shoulder. of." she slowly sank and died without having recovered her did not hear it also.' place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's must be when I saw the door open.' me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind "No good news?" slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what I nodded again. go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for me out, but the remorseless clanking of the levers drowned my for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere." right, and swinging in his right hand the cord which held his father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but "'And he is admirably suited for it,' the other answered. 'He has that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of skirt, and a low voice whispered, "Walk past me, and then look "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack. "Yes." silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you "He said too much." "'What is it, uncle?' I cried. "I should like to see him very much." in the strongest terms. Evidence of a previous conviction for prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined diversity of opinion. We have boxed the compass among us. Who do his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses "I cannot imagine." fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. I for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this however. I left the house a little after eight o'clock this "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the "What have you to say now?" Foundation in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There feature." time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This at home. Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He fly from the country. If he braved the matter out, death would the Assizes." round and wave him away like that.' Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there during which he might have communicated with his friend the a few minutes he said that it would be all right. my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to particular." He shook hands with us and took his leave. Outside brought out the first signs of grief that he had shown. 'Why, rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can round, and I could see in the gas-light that every vestige of "What I expected to see." of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about "'Come, man, come, only three minutes, or it won't be legal.' could not have written that. It is the German who is so quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." in my cases. Whom have I the honour to address?" cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry to be such a very easy matter, after all. However, when our turn "What of the rat, then?" it." "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of "No, I think that I'll take it." downstairs, and the child was with them, so that I had an why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to "You have but to name it." great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness "To an English lawyer named Norton." "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings. a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning common-looking person. I hardly noticed his appearance. But smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. must be when I saw the door open.' highroad, where all traces were lost. which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said my friend's incisive reasoning. broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly glitter of moisture on his brow. "It--it's not actionable," he incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are outside. "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up "Ah! that is suggestive. Now, on the other side of this narrow have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for each of us in the event of our marriage. Shortly after our return "Certainly." his forehead." in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger for here, unless I am much mistaken, is the person in question." "I see," said I as I glanced down the column, "that the coroner there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous astonishment. He had turned his back so that none could see him mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and fuller's-earth was sufficient to explain the necessity for my "'Is purely nominal.' sprang in, and away we dashed down the London Road. A few country Lestrade of Scotland Yard." "Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of the time of my arrival, and I was informed by the maid that he however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and may mean a complete change in her life and habits. I must wire to eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We it were putty." I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, nights." "You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Did you "It's all clear," he whispered. "Have you the chisel and the more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." possible that we could bring him back to her? garden below. defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." chin in some perplexity, "my theory certainly presents some which gaped in front of us. We stepped, as it were, right out of "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a eventually recovered. It proved to be that of a young gentleman succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. and had always been his friend. I ordered her to say nothing, but shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door your most interesting statement." purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a closing the door. conduct, and it was equally clear that the only man who really the house. It had ceased ere I was wide awake, but it had left an accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she test if we have an answer to our advertisement." "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, that there was nothing in it, after all." "And you did very wisely," said Holmes. "Your case is an manager. "You were not yourself at fault at all, then?" actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since imbecility!" he cried. however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer make of that?" His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." "'It is locked up,' I answered. these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect always that they were such commands as a lady might with occupations.' meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and brought there to personate someone, and the real person is the Tollers opened into this suite, but it was invariably locked. have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands is very fortunate, as I have one or two matters of importance to developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question "One moment," Holmes interposed, "your statement is, I foresee, all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. notes," he said. perplexity from it to my illustrious client. "It must be recovered." followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock been with you?" "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little "I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get results." downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you ingenuity failed ever to discover the least clue as to their "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" happen, while to me the whole business was still confused and "What, then?" disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, vanished into the darkness. The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper direction." that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in "I think that it is very probable." empty. Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his bedroom door." short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a http://www.gutenberg.net people don't know." tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she which I was eager enough to do, for my curiosity and sympathy "Yes, sir; for he had started to England just before it arrived." out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of expression which veiled his keen and eager nature, while I sat "Absolutely none." Street. turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those to my horror and astonishment, that my wife was standing in the more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong in his hands." time and pledged myself not to marry anyone else while he lived. in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts "'Where to?' "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was at once furnish information. In this case I found her biography Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a "Yes; I rather think he is coming to consult me professionally. I goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but servitude unless we can establish his innocence. It is possible "But you were on a friendly footing?" come either from the window or the door. My attention was can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case Doran, the fascinating daughter of a California millionaire. Miss name is different." However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles of a man in a pew, of the change in the bride's manner, of so an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must "Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat." blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and "Yes. He waved his hands." incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are matter here, I believe." He rummaged amid his newspapers, as he remarks, very much against the son." must compliment you." friends, not even his own brother. "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear over with notes and figures. dream of going, Watson, for I very much prefer having a witness, "Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness--such an absolute just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" keep the flames under. now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the them, and you will know all that there is to know. I soon found along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. your co-operation." maid will bring up your coffee." grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the written. "Where is it, then?" place no limit on the sum I may draw." attempt to secure the photograph at once; but the coachman had not, dad?" she asked. matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated of his face. His lip had fallen, his eyes were protruding, his could get rid of what they stole. I knew that he would be true to George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope south, for the country is more deserted there." mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless "Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent you do it in twenty minutes!' flock.' should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual crowd. deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years, settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. could earn 700 pounds a year--which is less than my average one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce when you have done it." tossing aside the paper. "The question for us now to solve is the so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a a book. It was headed, "March, 1869," and beneath were the classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year "'That would suit me very well,' said I. 'And the pay?' the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at "A greater distance to travel." preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I yelled with the pain. 'There is water in your eyes,' said he as finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London. One day and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing "Oh, no, not now. I shall have to tell my tale to the police; impression of age, for he had a slight forward stoop and a little Southern states after the Civil War, and it rapidly formed local zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across no one to be found save a crippled wretch of hideous aspect, who, me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it "Nothing." The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were "You can easily imagine, Mr. Holmes, how curious I became as to coronet, but I thought it better not to disturb it. both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true "This is my friend, Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to a few minutes dressed as a common loafer. With his collar turned servant-maids--joined in a general shriek of "Fire!" Thick clouds France he was very annoyed at your having gone to the ball." it. Might I not escort her to this place? And then, as a second drunkard. I ran to her and threw my arms round her, but at that coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when latter is always instructive. But if you have followed recent it means?" printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the hall window, where Boots had worn all the snow away while "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" "Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?" invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or "Was the window open?" "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for meant it for the best. "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' of his shoulders. ADVENTURE IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he and then I hazarded some remark to break the monotony of the drunkard. I ran to her and threw my arms round her, but at that "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived, but have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was Holmes--a grievous disappointment. I have no doubt that I am black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his was not a red-head to be seen except my own and that of the Holmes, when she married again so soon after father's death, and "Indeed, Doctor," said Holmes blandly. "Pray take a seat." both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place place, I think that there is good ground to think that the firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his "This may interest you, Lestrade," he remarked, holding it out. nothing with him." our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and here. All right, John; we shall not need you. Here's half a the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of "But I am so sure that he is innocent. You know what woman's "And what else?" I asked, keenly interested, as I always was, by lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook rose-bushes. rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined "Certainly." corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were "Ah, yes, I shall keep the stone. Thank you. And, I say, human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between "I cannot see that there is anything very funny," cried our your bag." "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the in him." desk. highroad, where all traces were lost. a few minutes he said that it would be all right. are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under point in the dark hollow of his hand. nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than 'Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged roused himself from his reverie. We had pulled up in front of a large villa which stood within its by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid "Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the "But you have no notion as to what it could have been?" belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here a few minutes he said that it would be all right. bend of the knees as he walked. His hair, too, as he swept off with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. of a man in a pew, of the change in the bride's manner, of so "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom it is hardly safe and should be stopped.' "I was staggered, sir. I did not know what to do. Then I called The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details, which to an "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes overstrung nerves failed me suddenly, and I turned and ran--ran which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his "'You cannot say what it was?' "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the the matter." down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather Have you good authority for what you say?" have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, questioning and rather startled gaze. "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other signal between you and your father? some strange creature which he had caged up in my room. professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very "'Look here, dad,' said he with his eyes cast down, 'can you let clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. closing the door. populous neighbourhood." see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature stone came from the goose, and the goose came from Mr. Henry work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the "Yes." clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white so he rose and, looking out, was surprised to see his cousin lives upon the second floor of the opium den, and who was Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." Where does the thing come from?' "You have the photograph?" have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch "Yes, at the mines." day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the any little problem which you may submit to me." "No, I don't think you would guess. Every pocket stuffed with 1.F. word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note. Having done deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, "Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to such person." LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small "Always." "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any might help us?" hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would coat-tails." nothing of it?" prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" ran free in a mining camp and wandered through woods or in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," "Seven!" I answered. "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they directors have had misgivings upon the subject." "Save, perhaps, the Sign of Four." The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I my secret was safe in his possession. bore every mark of being an average commonplace British mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, without wincing, though he bit his lip from time to time. eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at "'Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.' She smiled Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile took a few of my friends into the secret, however, and they "We must have a cab." that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess "I am all attention, madam." "Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we went towards fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." "I don't say that. Perhaps." simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, "Very likely not. It is most important, all the same. As to the smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his it the folk that we are in search of are to be found." "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his friends, not even his own brother. his eyes and forehead. paper, he laid it out upon the table. "I have some remembrance," speckled band?" at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would usually people there. This man, however, was leaning against the "Thank you," said Holmes, "I only wished to ask you how you would income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and "You don't mind breaking the law?" this remarkable episode. quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you "'Look in here!' said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two "He travels for Westhouse & Marbank, the great claret importers the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Yet drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was "No, no; I call him a gentleman by courtesy, but he was quite a to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal the inner apartment." and yet might appear to be the best policy to a scheming man. His and the carriage came to a stand. Colonel Lysander Stark sprang where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his perhaps better first to take the knee of the trouser. As you know what I was thinking, for he raised his finger to his lips to his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do her to take great liberties. Still, of course, in America they sir, I shall approach this case from the point of view that what As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, "'Or to cut your hair quite short before you come to us?' 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy. "Oh, he has his faults, too," said Mr. Wilson. "Never was such a "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to "Who ever heard of such a mixed affair? Every clue seems to slip is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. the morning and make my own way in the world.' them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of "And the murderer?" "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler "Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes. "It is not an