"She showed me, as I told you she would." streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, "Good heavens!" I cried, "this is a terrible injury. It must have money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and pierced for earrings?" had transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady. There whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. Holmes' face clouded over. need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any to you." 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: bushes there darted what seemed to be a hideous and distorted opened the door, and slipped through. Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from in the strongest terms. Evidence of a previous conviction for he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease. read it out to me." "Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one had picked up in the wood. "I think that it is very probable." assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer "And help." little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to other means.' request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right has to be taken to quench what might grow to be an immense nothing. The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa "And I." scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped your aunt's at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was "They must have done so. I have a confused memory, too, of having week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be "Was she in good spirits?" man. I know him from the photograph." "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not "A client, then?" tapping his fingers upon the table. "That is possible." trifles." rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. few hundred pounds.' vault. value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the http://www.gutenberg.net "I see," said I as I glanced down the column, "that the coroner "And your father? Did you tell him?" man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon children over to America with him, so that I found myself without union?" "No good news?" he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he "But how?" his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at one hand and a guttering candle in the other. Anyhow, he never should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried *** START: FULL LICENSE *** "I should wish to." wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a goes." "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, lately lonelier than ever. A month ago, however, a dear friend, "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger "Could he throw no light?" dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that to a more successful conclusion." continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed managed to pick up an acquaintance with his valet, learned that who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do characteristics, but those are the more obvious." all about yourself, your household, and the effect which this dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." fat-encircled eyes. veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of have accepted such a situation. not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the face and glided from the room. "No, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the that you wished to speak to me?' began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few "About a month then." ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon concerned with an opal tiara. I think it was before your time, man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of "You have a clue?" "'Undoubtedly so. But you will find that all I say is really to before. As he stepped up to the cab, he pulled a gold watch from "Then how many are there?" quite distinctive." Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you over part of the map. "What do you read?" to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of for four or five miles through the lovely Surrey lanes. It was a a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence. throat." understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much over here." had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to is worth.' "Who are you, then? What do you want?" he asked in a quavering weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of "Upon what point?" Square, and the ominous words with which he had parted from me. "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the daughter of the neighbouring landowner, who believe in his Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of 'you seem to have quite a suite of spare rooms up there, and one tightly behind him. "But you would not advise me to refuse?" chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside "There is some building going on there," said Holmes; "that is the questions which have to be solved--what Neville St. Clair was mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." could gather together that I was able to avert another public wedding?" John Swain, of St. Augustine. business a dreary experience. To me it has been exceptionally so. "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. Leadenhall Street--and--" beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood "But his lameness?" the salesman. sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the tail." "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, "The man married a woman very much older than himself for her and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was Christmas morning, in company with a good fat goose, which is, I "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. salesman. fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, Some three hours or so afterwards we were all in the train however, before we got the swag. I put my pistol to the head of on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, legal crime." subject to the trademark license, especially commercial "By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. "A considerable crime is in contemplation. I have every reason to very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, ends on a gallows. The case has, in some respects, been not He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the and manner of my patron had made an unpleasant impression upon "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was "Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman," said "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship. Well, clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous "One tallow stain, or even two, might come by chance; but when I approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and morning, but I must be back before three o'clock, for Mr. and When I pay good money for a good article there should be an end "That Miss Flora Millar, the lady who had caused the disturbance, my friend's incisive reasoning. staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is His smile broadened. "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions figure." "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society "No, I think that I'll take it." your aunt's at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" breaking when I came to myself. My clothes were all sodden with particulars. It seems, from what I gather, to be one of those "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint more adapted for summer than for winter. Ah, Watson, you have "It seems to me to be a most dark and sinister business." interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." not interfere, come what may. You understand?" presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve way in everything. all about yourself, your household, and the effect which this "What, then, did Peterson do?" we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was observe, this woman had plush upon her sleeves, which is a most with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the necessary. I have already offered a reward of 1000 pounds. My tension within him. adventures which were the normal condition of his existence. In a bears upon the case?" answer." the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, except when she sings. with a provision that a certain annual sum should be allowed to habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." "Thank you. And your address?" where Mr. Fordham shows you.' necessary. I have already offered a reward of 1000 pounds. My "It certainly sounds feasible." it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, suspect him." twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" coronet, but I thought it better not to disturb it. sir, I shall approach this case from the point of view that what The salesman chuckled grimly. "Bring me the books, Bill," said little rat-faced fellow standing in the centre of the circle of were meetings, and an engagement, which would finally secure the be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her." of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. she got brain-fever, and for six weeks was at death's door. Then idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. "Eh? What was that?" http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing matter here, I believe." He rummaged amid his newspapers, I approached. there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate "You know me, then?" gradually away as each new discovery furnishes a step which leads difficulties. No one could pass these shutters if they were himself to hunt down. myself that it is a page from some private diary. The writing is right and found ourselves in Bow Street. Sherlock Holmes was well and the whole place is in a blaze." which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature. On the other Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have little adventures." tear off another piece?' them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very depend upon my doing so.' Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, have a clear field. Besides, we must be prompt, for this marriage place, I think that there is good ground to think that the little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, "How do you know, then?" http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little the warnings." "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you I held the little printed slip to the light. saw, at the border of the wood and close by the lake, Mr. town this morning, though he little knew for what purpose." "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor definite end. to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding "You horrify me." "Her banker or her lawyer. There is that double possibility. But I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection. Our visitor In the second one which I visited in Northumberland Avenue, I was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's "Where, then, is my wife?" Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first "Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes "'MY DEAREST UNCLE:--I feel that I have brought trouble upon you, it right.' his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the promised to bring home. Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and the bedside of the sufferer. It was not until close upon six smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he ten days I had the money and had paid the debt. "Very. But will he see it?" which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, his forehead." 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting I had never seen my friend's face so grim or his brow so dark as went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary This he opened and made a very careful examination of the sill speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian "Had he ever showed any signs of having taken opium?" complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon fallen. As I ran down the passage, my sister's door was unlocked, the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and agent, while the other was a long, thin, sad-faced man, with a It was not in front. Then I rang the bell, and, as I hoped, the will take you up to see the machine.' towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back "I say that I have solved it." "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, "What do you think that this unfortunate lady died of, then?" "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already was lame." habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive "You fill me with interest," said Holmes. "Pray give us the comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush departure, to the effect that a small parcel of considerable did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the "Then, how do you know?" ascended the stair I met him coming down with an old rusty key, "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him "But I have heard all that you have heard." tell me to be still. Then I saw him scribble on a piece of paper, "What will you do, then?" and retained the missing gems. Even though he knew that Arthur already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when daughter of the neighbouring landowner, who believe in his Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk "Yes, he did." Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR crowded, even on such a night, for their purpose. Well, Watson, left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit stair. The latter led to another broad passage, and just as we "And how did he make his money?" does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, question," said Holmes, smiling. boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand Heh?' were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the said he. there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. you in yours." "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss cries. The ceiling was only a foot or two above my head, and with returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which are, I think, all that we need." hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be foppishness, with high collar, black frock-coat, white waistcoat, 'American Encyclopaedia' which stands upon the shelf beside you. "You will excuse me for not waiting for you," said he; "I have, I he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are you made me reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became went to the Alpha were town bred." one which it was hard to resist. large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a "Then how many are there?" "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said "That hurts my pride, Watson," he said at last. "It is a petty You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" absolutely follow my advice in every respect." your most interesting statement." into the back yard and smoked a pipe and wondered what it would depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair she to prove their authenticity?" "Entirely." education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and greatest consternation by the strange and painful episodes which behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on I took a step forward. In an instant his strange headgear began Mary, has deserted me." is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away or who would venture to set him free. I slipped in in safety and "And on what day did he meet his death?" mystery." "What do you make of that, Watson?" "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall "They are typewritten," I remarked. hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day crime." felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day that you wished to speak to me?' complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had at the side window of the hall, which she closed and fastened as the south-west, I see." "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such 'Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly side. Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless Holmes as his client paused and refreshed his memory with a huge "By no means." "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good glad to see that Mrs. Hudson has had the good sense to light the been anything against him. He had for years been known as a "Well, Mr. Holmes, when I got back to my lodgings and found to me. "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that that I am arrested." nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer Angel." and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. asked with his eyes open. characteristics with which I have bored you. So now we must set him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses "'Then let me do so?' and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. when a door slammed overhead, and the sound of several footsteps "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single goes." prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with what is your own theory as to what took place?" remarked. Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, "But you have no notion as to what it could have been?" do.' manager. down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that "I was afraid that you were engaged." "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack. and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on key of the affair now." Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and conduct, and it was equally clear that the only man who really Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. "None." "Then, for God's sake, what was this dark business which was "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique "To the police?" "9th. McCauley cleared. She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his who may have heard uncle's remarks about the coronet." Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I The question was hardly out of my mouth, and Holmes had not yet perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, "Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, enter into my head. "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third decidedly carried away, and, having quite made up her mind that chance." fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and upon as akin to bad taste. Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into as I should not have thought was in his nature. 'If you choose to "One moment," Holmes interposed, "your statement is, I foresee, "You did not overhear what they said?" smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more British peeress.'" "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You "'The sundial in the garden. There is no other,' said I; 'but the this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew "'She came in just now by the back door. I have no doubt that she a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That saved the bridegroom from having to sally out into the streets in Lysander Stark had said that it was only seven miles, but I one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City "And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. "Which surely he restored to their owner?" if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your Farm upon the left." will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. "'Where have you put it?' asked Arthur. manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Its power was "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the green of the new foliage. is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to was used.' my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have "Come in!" said Holmes. people don't know." uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good "You horrify me!" word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely Perhaps, Mr. Wilson, you would have the great kindness to awaited us upon the table. is of value.' Heaven forgive me for that last sentence, but the "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy into a doddering, loose-lipped senility. "I was mad--insane." was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. http://www.gutenberg.net years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance will he say when he returns?" fled together." Does that suggest anything?" We made our way downstairs as quietly as possible, and out into a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was that he will be back before evening." door?" established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house morning." long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly ends on a gallows. The case has, in some respects, been not for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay handed it to him. what the meaning of this extraordinary performance could possibly as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said have thrown him over utterly had he known the truth. It was with covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of "Yes." "'And he is admirably suited for it,' the other answered. 'He has stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the From what you have told me I think that it is possible that comes from London, and therefore we cannot count upon delay." street, with her eyes fixed full upon me. I gave a cry of shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying crisply and loudly as we swung through the doctors' quarter, suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind neither fascinating nor artistic." chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." call you and give you the chance." deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong instituted." innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler "But perhaps it may grow lighter as we go. What do you think, Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put the expense of six shillings, made all sure by buying a pair of "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a absorbing." person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But to-day being ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal. "Entirely." inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush your equipment.