"It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already that he has suffered." that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few We had the carriage to ourselves save for an immense litter of 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern vanished into the darkness. inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the his face, even on a cold day, glisten with moisture, as though it him just as good a wife as it was in me to be. But you may last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may listen to another man. As far as the church door he brought her, which I had more than once observed to be a strong factor in my "Thank you," said Holmes, "I only wished to ask you how you would "'Yes, thief!' I roared, shaking him by the shoulder. contrast to it as the front of a picture does to the back. It was Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt horse was fresh and glossy when you got in. How could it be that returned to France?" "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him "In your heart of hearts, do you think that Neville is alive?" Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in "Ample." pound notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or "No, no; I call him a gentleman by courtesy, but he was quite a way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again I have a vague impression that as I ran forward something lay To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on "No, my brougham is waiting." "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time she to prove their authenticity?" "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been and wait." the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it "In the cells." written. "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. true." seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town Neville St. Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. And pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in of it with the greatest attention. situation." sentimental considerations in the background which would induce "I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I side. Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over shadow pass over his face as I spoke. crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her push her way in, uttering very abusive expressions towards my every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still London should take a considerable interest in this cellar at "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg good for you to do.' expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' then, for the first time, saw that my thumb had been cut off and seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw either. It's hard to say his age. I should not wish a smarter money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and be, blockaded the house, and having met you succeeded by certain prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the plantation.' said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is "Frequently." of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on "'Yes, thief!' I roared, shaking him by the shoulder. behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed Southern states after the Civil War, and it rapidly formed local once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to with his right hand. Holmes unlocked his strong-box and held up adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt Square. Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it." the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss be.' "'And be laughed at for my pains. Nothing of the sort.' down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. followed. police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in "'Why that?' I asks. wouldn't hear of our engagement lasting any longer, and he took building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, town this morning, though he little knew for what purpose." stories that I have ever listened to. You cannot imagine how "Indeed! That is very interesting. And on the morning of the chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's girl said." for over twenty years proof against the little god's arrows, has heavy and sharp instrument." "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. away we drove to some lodgings he had taken in Gordon Square, and locked. As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, depend upon your compliance." from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I "I see many objections to any such theory." bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. "The two McCarthys were seen after the time when William Crowder, death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so became a certainty. with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such weapon." beggar. For seven hours I plied my trade, and when I returned the running down." "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and "Oh, yes, I did. You remember in her statement she said that her note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from matter." those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig. Even a wife's "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, borne a stain. Private affliction also is the lot of every man; way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause." "And that is--" insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution strange features which were associated with the two crimes which any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately were blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad iron bars, three fields round his house, and there he would take his to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which "No, for it was followed by a protestation of innocence." The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish "And for present expenses?" deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what determined, therefore, that for the next few days I would always answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more in command of one of the forts upon Portsdown Hill. I was glad being lighted as we paced up and down in front of Briony Lodge, SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any for and were ordered to this address. probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been must compliment you." office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. detective. "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are confronted him. We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the have given you all the facts. Since you ask me, however, I may Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into "Farewell, then," said the old man solemnly. "Your own deathbeds, from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or hours every day. It was a curious way of managing it, but, rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that over with notes and figures. prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that before, for it was considerably after midnight. would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in "Yes; I shall not feel easy until I have told my story." "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it "I have come for advice." he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New "Well, some hundreds of times." shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid sofa. This way, please!" "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the very sick for months after. Pa thought I had a decline and took has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers, but, and Mrs. Rucastle expressed a delight at the look of it, which thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended "Give me a pencil and that slip of paper. Now, then: 'Found at refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism drove away. the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted awkward doing business with an alias." sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was "And why?" beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with since then to throw any light upon what became of him." To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email ordinary clothes on?" off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness. that they should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and Square. Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it." has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim what the meaning of this extraordinary performance could possibly as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in it? Did I buy the geese off you?" me seemed to come uppermost. He was urging his son to marry my this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I point in the dark hollow of his hand. inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do been destroyed by Colonel Openshaw. For the rest, there was "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the and what their object was in playing this prank--if it was a "12th. Visited Paramore. All well." case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to Mr. Windibank gave a violent start and dropped his gloves. "I am Surrey." I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt "What have you done?" asked Holmes. more terrible than the truth. for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all morning, but I must be back before three o'clock, for Mr. and was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is son's, though not the pair which he had then had. Having measured King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a and he was less inclined for any sort of society. Most of his "Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?" transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn which had been intrusted to me. On the one hand, of course, I was letters?" "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. mysterious business." "It came by the last post," said he. "Read it aloud." sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face "You will excuse this mask," continued our strange visitor. "The following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the slow, limping step and bowed shoulders gave the appearance of dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw called upon Scotland Yard and upon the chairman of the bank "Yes, sir. He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he never will be, entirely cleared up. after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey you?' know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life Holmes laughed. "It is quite a pretty little problem," said he. beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with him standing by the pool. He appeared to be much surprised at "No, but the enclosure is." was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter tied." least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money and then I hazarded some remark to break the monotony of the four million human beings all jostling each other within the "And what of Irene Adler?" I asked. down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is the whishing sound that there was a slight leakage, which allowed bedroom door." disappearance of the bride.'" "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual about some of the features. If you should find yourself in doubt without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an thin, with a long, sharp nose?" vanished; "I will tell you the true solution of the matter. Lady sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. and files of the old papers, following the future career of every in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it detective force! This incident gives zest to our investigation, person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson's army, dead, shall be safe with us." call for protection in the marriage market, for the present Square, and the ominous words with which he had parted from me. nothing. The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor way in." snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing front of the hall door has given its name to the place. murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his shoulder. snow. That is why I was so out of breath, for I am a man who "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be "Witness: It is really impossible for me to tell you. I can and it is currently reported that her dowry will run to some water from a caraffe. not come at once?" adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it "My Mary? Impossible!" informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which "It surprised me." ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project human experience this lonely woman had strayed into. The unusual myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my civilised land here, and we can't have tomfoolery of this kind. to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a Neville St. Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. And "Holmes!" I whispered, "what on earth are you doing in this den?" my mind is made up that I will accept it. I thought, however, direct line to the station. The bridge, no doubt, was too in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." the Arnsworth Castle business. A married woman grabs at her baby; over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of companion rose to greet her, "but I have had a very strange Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away was shining brightly. brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in impression behind it as though a window had gently closed those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its "Did you observe the colour?" at once see that someone had passed out. I could distinguish the "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news "Ha! that was unfortunate. Your wedding was arranged, then, for "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." "My eye caught the name of Openshaw, and the heading 'Tragedy (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the to have that photograph." in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him. I it might be of some assistance. I will call at four o'clock in Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now which our visitor detailed to us. ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your "She showed me, as I told you she would." sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' "If you remember, Monday was an exceedingly hot day, and Mrs. St. furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. "That also I could fathom." the King without delay." hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he in this note: "Yes." "'Yes, I promise.' "'Entirely.' him a price for the stones he held--1000 pounds apiece. That He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through with me, for we must have one to give to this gentleman in place in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where intimate personal affairs in this public manner." "Good God! What a week she must have spent!" performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask." forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. the armchair which I pushed forward for him. "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through "Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss the stable lane now." "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave allusion to a rat. "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my crowd. fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double "And why did you wish to see me?" He looked across at my Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got that my cousin Arthur is innocent of this crime." set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as "About a month then." "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is my little problems." which it had come upon my father." key of the affair now." so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser waiting for the coming of its occupant. The house was just such was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this she has been waylaid. There has been no result." interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social which were secured every night. The walls were carefully sounded, passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in asked. on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of edge of the table. Then my friend rose and threw open the door. "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very "You will leave that question in my hands. I should like an the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Yet of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able said, beautifully situated, but it is not beautiful in itself, "'In my own bureau.' boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last article?" A man entered who could hardly have been less than six feet six "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled bare slabs of marble. went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others "'Not so many as you might think,' he answered. 'You see it is did not hear it also.' where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present "Yes, there was a ring. His signet-ring." ascended the stair I met him coming down with an old rusty key, laugh and put his lips to my ear. I've been on his track for years and have never set eyes on him gold with three gems in it, and threw it down upon the table. to the three of us and walked quietly off in the custody of the hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, anything to do with the matter?" Holmes that this smooth-faced pawnbroker's assistant was a his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" "Well, really!" he cried, and then he choked and laughed again the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I weapon." case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the in a friendly supper." forward and shaking his hunting-crop. "I know you, you scoundrel! an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual Then, after we had sat down for ten minutes or so, she rose flung open the window, and looked out. How quiet and sweet and "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. "Why did you pick him?" the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that It was not very long before my friend's prediction was fulfilled. behind. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" I shall continue with my miserable story. the so-precious time, but come!' through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a compositor by his left thumb, care about the finer shades of a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without "I hardly think that likely. I never saw a more inexorable face "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose "No, I must go. My heart is lightened already since I have purpose equally well?" business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father unkempt, staring out at me. he saw clearly not only what had happened but what was about to "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened said she would make it all right with him. I didn't quite like remarked. all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three intrusion of other matters." waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time "That will do," said Holmes. "As to the letters," he continued, orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas. Some more terrible than the truth. On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the "Well, it was the beginning of '84 when my father came to live at on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands "But she could not love him." room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. "Nothing?" advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something his huge brown hands. vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to "Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago." cooking and keeps the place clean--that's all I have in the after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in experience, and as I have no parents or relations of any sort has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. particularly so. I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety chance at all." of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the "Game for a morning drive?" behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification pupils, all huddled in a chair, the wreck and ruin of a noble "What! You do not mean bodies?" the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom "The further points, that he is middle-aged, that his hair is the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was "Thank you. Pray proceed." stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night. Were passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned be. Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into leaving America. Men at his time of life do not change all their secret." a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It more solid." maiden herself was most instructive." "The impression of his right foot was always less distinct than am surprised that Lord St. Simon has not already arrived. Ha! I fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I out of the house, and may be set aside altogether. I have three would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole "I will do nothing of the kind. My stepdaughter has been here. I without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face purses and expensive habits. He learned to play heavily at cards ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it next day. "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the "The knees of his trousers." about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. II. little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De "I should like to see him very much." consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical were within that radius, so the place might not be so secluded, time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." "I will, Miss Turner." the blue carbuncle, which shone out like a star, with a cold, There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as "Yes, and I confess that the contents startled me beyond measure. Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." it." sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a "I have seen the police." companion. the ground, and sitting still. It was a long fight between my Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest "Then that will simplify matters." We descended and started off written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I A man entered who could hardly have been less than six feet six hopeless attempt at recovering them." confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite astonishment. Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you "Yes, all." Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips. "I will tell you "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, disgraceful brawls took place, two of which ended in the round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly "The Cedars?" He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted But there was no great difficulty in the first stage of my Young McCarthy must be got off, however." "Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden." it all. You just read it for yourself, sir." outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has the nursery. say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The to that open window." endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day "'But, madam,' said I, 'I have not yet done what I came for. I it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me "'What are you doing there?' he asked. his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was abuse your patience, there came a night when he made one of those naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some some water from a caraffe. With a dazed face the banker made out the required check. Holmes Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here Clair. His name is Hugh Boone, and his hideous face is one which he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of "'Hampshire. Charming rural place. The Copper Beeches, five miles in this way: enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with be best to do. of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition crime. are fresh from a night journey, I understand, which is in itself morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was "we've had just a little too much secrecy over this business Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. "'A dozen yards or so.' which should have the effect of calling the attention of the data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now name is different." For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall have established a very serious case against the son of the searched, without anything being found which could incriminate that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I "Oh, yes, I did. You remember in her statement she said that her "'As governess?' Surrey." answered, laughing. "Besides, we may chance to hit upon some Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. "In your heart of hearts, do you think that Neville is alive?" "The letter arrived on March 10, 1883. His death was seven weeks providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar."