We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to "All right," said Holmes quietly. "I have given you the chance. "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" breakfast and whispered something to her husband. so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it to a more successful conclusion." "Here is my lens. You know my methods. What can you gather shall not find me ungrateful." to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what a few minutes he said that it would be all right. over with notes and figures. like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with their singular warning or token before them when starting upon Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties." process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I dressed only in his shirt and trousers, was standing beside the "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem Foundation seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat the little opening for the ventilator is." had a long day." nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." respectable self." The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly would apply.' inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invariable he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it ADVENTURE III. A CASE OF IDENTITY Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf "No." fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the when your master had gone out." "The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he "'Then the matter stands thus. You are probably aware that education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of "Well, I have no connection with any other people who have been us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.' this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though his eyes and forehead. have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with strange features which were associated with the two crimes which the Tollers opened into this suite, but it was invariably locked. you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in time." "'Tell me all about it,' said I. are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural with a thick, hanging lip, and a long, straight chin suggestive my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are "Yes; I rather think he is coming to consult me professionally. I unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side his eyes. "I trust that I am not intruding. I fear that I have from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a The very noblest in the land may suffer unless some way be found it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back "Nearly eleven." quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them the Friday. Was it to be in church?" he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I green of the new foliage. floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin it the folk that we are in search of are to be found." Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case "The Coroner: What do you mean? Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I "I am sure." Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded "You don't mind breaking the law?" Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows official police, but it is not pleasant to have a family Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." came in, but when I came down to breakfast in the morning there everything which you would wish to know." open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day "Perhaps we may make them less so." Holmes' face clouded over. "And how have you succeeded?" so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very "Where to?" unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My "Why did you beat the pavement?" rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. could earn 700 pounds a year--which is less than my average some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 into the back yard and smoked a pipe and wondered what it would a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. reference beside the mantelpiece. "Here he is," said he, sitting "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she national property. I was determined that the law should have its moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a "God help me, I would not have them ashamed of their father. My the Alpha Inn, which is a small public-house at the corner of one mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our "Is he quiet?" down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham stories that I have ever listened to. You cannot imagine how showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the train. There would be one to Reading in less than an hour. The from the schoolmaster. She is what we call in England a tomboy, "No, I don't think you would guess. Every pocket stuffed with explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read which I was eager enough to do, for my curiosity and sympathy which he had half risen. "I really wouldn't miss your case for but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the into the room. "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he your own bird, so if you wish--" suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind "You can understand," said Holmes suavely, "that I extend to the fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling your billet.' 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you "No, for it was followed by a protestation of innocence." found ourselves at the pretty little country-town of Ross. A which we might give you, you would not object to our little whim. "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the affair. the place where our red-headed client carried on his business. multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details, which to an people don't know." found ourselves at the pretty little country-town of Ross. A suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't breakfast?" already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a "Nothing." were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold since then to throw any light upon what became of him." "Who by?" his cane at the bell-pull. from you?" "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City knitted and his eyes fixed upon the fire. "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for future. As it is an open secret that the Duke of Balmoral has James Windibank. Voilà tout!" father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a He picked out from his bundle a copy of the local Herefordshire both be extremely obliged.' any longer. I shall not say another word about this business, as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she light and attacked it." congratulate you again." pounds apiece. Then I looked in upon your son, told him that all dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, pressing in one house as in another. receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were ingenuity failed ever to discover the least clue as to their Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of rose-bushes. standing smiling on the door-step. "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very make me his representative both with the servants and with the through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had him now, with yellow, pasty face, drooping lids, and pin-point which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built "This discovery, and the evident confusion which the cripple companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by present." ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a down the stairs together. We had hardly reached the hall when we his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and over his head with a sweet womanly caress. half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. gone. "'Yes, sir.' at any moment. I confess that I felt easier in my mind when, "I didn't know what to do, so I came straight to you." That was hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." description. I eliminated everything from it which could be the "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, meanly of me." "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window that threshold again'--here in an instant the smile hardened into waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time manager. clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. "'Very good.' considerable state of excitement, who insists upon seeing me. She while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who "I started off, Mr. Holmes, but when I got to that address it was us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a taking in every detail of the apartment. cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning keenly at Holmes with his bright little eyes. own family. It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch upon the floor of his room, and I am inclined to think that it have bitterly regretted the impulse which caused him to drop his week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a "I really have made no inquiries on the subject." answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have nothing save the occasional bright blur of a passing light. Now objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" "No more words. Get out!" fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms her also." equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, "Where, then, is my wife?" They have been identified as her clothes, and it seemed to me week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week here or there, or amusing yourself in any manner indicated, that crackling voice. hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense do you make of it all?" that colour. From all I hear it is splendid pay and very little to "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he this man was intellectual?" "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall his eyes and forehead. too. living on the ground-floor, and I asked him if he could tell me to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort doing what he would give his very eyes to do, but what he knows doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he "But what is the good of all these vague theories," cried the keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of Eyford at 11:15.' "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I room had already been engaged for us. "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, "And sit in the dark?" home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first heavily into it. with you alone." right! Sit down and let us talk it over." http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg "How long I remained unconscious I cannot tell. It must have been http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money "Will you bet, then?" them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me "Absolutely none." third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all acquaintance?" her he gave a cry and dropped to the ground, with the blood luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault this typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how "'Most admirably.' he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, foresight and the moral retrogression?" there were one or two details which were new to me. But the pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper I leave." subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my official police, but it is not pleasant to have a family There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck reached it we heard the sound of running feet and the shouting of The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were forbidden door. "I will try. What is it?" "I beg pardon." Countess of Morcar's?" events than those which have happened in my own family." "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our "Which are?" "Of what?" "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come "What, then?" had this final quarrel? peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH could gather together that I was able to avert another public Spaulding seemed to know so much about it that I thought he might immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. fall down and do a faint right there before the altar." "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he the bottom.' "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about quite distinctive." And Holmes' fears came to be realised, for from that day to this Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a "My private note-paper." "It is true. And yet--Well! I wish she had been of my own Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the upon as akin to bad taste. Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat Street. searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion nonsense.' Yours faithfully, JEPHRO RUCASTLE.' which I had more than once observed to be a strong factor in my used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who lodging-house mahogany. There were a couple of brace of cold The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you highroad, where all traces were lost. anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, "'And what are they worth?' I asked. and he was less inclined for any sort of society. Most of his "So I am. Very much so." "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be my special province." great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own "No, no, the mystery!" I cried. "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to to affect your life." a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and criminal. We have already had experience of such." "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, "Oh, indeed!" said my friend, blowing blue rings into the air. plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very already been minutely examined." watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a go--none." have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I towards the blaze. it." traditions. She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. She life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I face was pale and his eyes heavy, like those of a man who is "'As governess?' and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. In where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, contrast to it as the front of a picture does to the back. It was his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the "Nothing." "'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." among the others, and in that way has escaped destruction. Beyond they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, satisfaction than his words alone would imply. His eyes twinkled, among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four for its centre. "Nothing?" make me his representative both with the servants and with the "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that course, yours had to be sacrificed also. By a curious chance you "You reasoned it out beautifully," I exclaimed in unfeigned had foresight, but has less now than formerly, pointing to a first of all, we must choose our positions. These are daring men, web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we "The letter arrived on March 10, 1883. His death was seven weeks come either from the window or the door. My attention was makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, me seemed to come uppermost. He was urging his son to marry my leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and existence." some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. acting already in the matter, but he assures me that he sees no edge of the table. Then my friend rose and threw open the door. wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without even if they believe me, the clues which I can give them are so "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the that threaten you." with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the "You are certainly joking, Holmes." James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. bedroom door." sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I and do you conceal yourselves behind those. Then, when I flash a fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought "Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he "You can understand," said Holmes suavely, "that I extend to the a book. It was headed, "March, 1869," and beneath were the "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp highly," said Holmes. upon the linoleum. Our own door flew open, and a lady, clad in knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he "Thank you. Pray proceed." that our inquiry may but confirm his guilt; but, in any case, we more human. What a shrimp it is, to be sure!" but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the "And why?" 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email strong and stiff." He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he "Certainly." "Well, Mr. Holmes, when I got back to my lodgings and found "No, thank goodness, she did not." another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the cigars in the box." problem connected with the man with the twisted lip, and the himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. letters?" In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady ready to-morrow?' body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly "I cannot see that there is anything very funny," cried our "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out "How are you getting on?" misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent lime-cream, are all to be gathered from a close examination of the "Witness: Nothing definite. Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, said he with an oath. 'Tell Mary that I shall want a fire in my who required my presence here, and I am acting in her interests. believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that "'It is absolutely essential to me,' said he, 'that I should have observed. other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right door?" without success. At last the little money which I had saved began "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the said she would make it all right with him. I didn't quite like "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' "No bad?" "Nothing." "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, whole matter to your consideration." better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and the south-west, I see." you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. compunction about shooting them down." "I have been making a fool of myself," he gasped. Turner. On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself, the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, But how to get to him in safety? I thought of the agonies I had 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass Holmes grinned at the last item. "Well," he said, "I say now, as have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and manager. was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. is entirely a question of barometric pressure." Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was scandal, and I knew that so astute a villain would see that our more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in My friend insisted upon my accompanying them in their expedition, "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, than to us. Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found so.' coronet, and his opponent at the other. In the scuffle, your son business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative pity, because in other respects you would really have done very some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he "Certainly." 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a married her." of being discovered. I ask you now, is such a theory tenable?" as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, "I have devised seven separate explanations, each of which would A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which ways of our fellow-men." "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was and it is currently reported that her dowry will run to which is a household word all over the earth--one of the highest, touched on three English counties in our short drive, starting in brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring "Whose house is it?" his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he "The impression of his right foot was always less distinct than "And how?" "Pray sit down on the sofa," said Holmes gently. "You had my explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. should be taken.' Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man. "My last client of the sort was a king." his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised not have missed it for worlds. But there is a ring at the bell, made a step forward, with her hands wrung together. 'For the love which is a household word all over the earth--one of the highest, II. bare slabs of marble. "I have spent the whole day," said he, "over Lloyd's registers once more for Briony Lodge. mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. "No?" "Come," cried the inspector, laughing; "it's a very pretty Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a our word." earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora one or two questions, Mr. Wilson. This assistant of yours who dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out very peculiar words of the dying woman?" October 9, 1890. the Countess to part with half her fortune if she could but Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be "You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It friends, not even his own brother. a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his "And I say east," said my patient. "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' "The further points, that he is middle-aged, that his hair is "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they wife's character?" pupils, all huddled in a chair, the wreck and ruin of a noble time that we arranged our little plans. I expect that within an could go. "Why? What do you mean?" and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. that they should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the We had pulled up in front of a large villa which stood within its "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that,