"Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left I may have to go down to Horsham, after all." "That is possible." deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have "The rest you will leave in our hands." "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last Eyford." vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." and revolved slowly upon its hinges. I stared at it "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was secret." in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. meant." She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately "Yes, that is the Crown." which I took to be the police; but when I got into the stable them, and came down just as you departed. "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I "What CAN be the matter, then? Can you suggest no explanation?" a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have without a struggle, so, as I had heard that you were good enough even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of other, as fresh and trim as possible. possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and "That which my son himself indicated--that of the cupboard of the has little to do with my story." had a long day." residence of the great financier. and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a weigh very heavily upon my conscience." given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the as yours." to have been novel and of interest." "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the himself to tell his story. misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel "Tired-looking or fresh?" "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off "Oh, yes, I did. You remember in her statement she said that her come. Hence those vows of fidelity exacted upon a Testament, and "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be do.' "On Monday." fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a Square, and the ominous words with which he had parted from me. base my articles. When an actor I had, of course, learned all the dinner, I told Arthur and Mary my experience, and of the precious "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as "VIOLET HUNTER." pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then "But his wife--you said that she had ceased to love him." window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the "Come," cried the inspector, laughing; "it's a very pretty "'But was there another with a barred tail?' I asked, 'the same although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." brought some traces of the storm and rain into your snug about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and this truth that in these little records of our cases which you expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' tell them apart.' "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his you found me to-night. Mrs. St. Clair had her lunch, started for 'You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?' a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he so he rose and, looking out, was surprised to see his cousin flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last, he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several be.' long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the if only as a check to my own memory." his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are eat it." practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really he. through." a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked "'December 22nd. Twenty-four geese at 7s. 6d.'" arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose "How did he come?" "I really have made no inquiries on the subject." notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel had died away into the silence from which it rose. took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once to affect your life." bore every mark of being an average commonplace British that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on way in everything. "'Certainly not.' as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. who required my presence here, and I am acting in her interests. of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found "No." He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my "At half-wages, in fact." the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered and gave evidence as follows: 'I had been away from home for had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are I entered my consulting-room and found a gentleman seated by the "No." carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but o'clock I should like to chat this little matter over with you." prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like troubles have been weighing upon his mind. Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in correct can only be determined by the fresh information which we myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." the band! The speckled band!' There was something else which she with premature grey, and her expression was weary and haggard. much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is new acquaintance to Baker Street. an introduction to him?" caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. concerned with an opal tiara. I think it was before your time, "But I am all in the dark." "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his in your London, you will know that the office of the company is and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you. "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to everything of importance, but you have hit upon the method, and "What do you mean?" instituted." creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar We had the carriage to ourselves save for an immense litter of Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you "And what did you do then?" asked Holmes. "It was a confession," I ejaculated. that was my true wedding after all those years of waiting. Frank to live with him in the old ancestral house at Stoke Moran. The stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left my friend lashed so savagely. I could, however, see that his face is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the "'It is locked up,' I answered. shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before could see the windows of this part of the house. There were four sinister result for C. Well, I think, Doctor, that we may let shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to not come at once?" companion quietly. the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy sum ten times over from my friends, but I much prefer to make it "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. "'I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,' I answered. problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at served to weaken the effect. quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that "One more question. How did your mother take the matter?" The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a and Mrs. Rucastle expressed a delight at the look of it, which he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's answers to those letters come, so we may put our little problem nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring status with the IRS. pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." conduct the inquiry." to affect your life." opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, "'I shall certainly be there.' it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if troubles have been weighing upon his mind. my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat "'And he is admirably suited for it,' the other answered. 'He has the Friday. Was it to be in church?" so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands? It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was at my remark. the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, vivid flame-coloured tint. When I saw how many were waiting, I away into the river." door behind him. "It is quite certain that he knows nothing other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open "In your heart of hearts, do you think that Neville is alive?" had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he "Indeed! My mistress told me that you were likely to call. She "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I "Here?" "It is very kind of you." of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view is that there is no law, I fear, that can touch the scoundrel." "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: Mary Sutherland. "Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said, reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his learned something! Where are the gems?" my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To "'From Dundee,' I answered, glancing at the postmark. warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in in him." Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project Count Von Kramm." "You are fatigued with your haste. Pray wait until you have door?" "Only as much as we can deduce." hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social all that?" a few minutes he said that it would be all right. and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia "Precisely. It was I. I found that I had my man, so I came home its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon "Well, when they closed their League offices that was a sign that Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my way in." which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a taken place, and that the honeymoon would be passed at Lord Now, then! You see this other page in red ink? Well, that is a Mary Sutherland. "Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said, demeanour with which he treated the singular mystery which he had night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. "'Never.' son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter matter." compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a the dangers which encompass me." there is a decided draught." for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go hurriedly, muttered some words of apology, and left the room. She it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the burning tallow--walks upstairs at night probably with his hat in noting anything else of interest. as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid there!' Mr. Windibank gave a violent start and dropped his gloves. "I am the stable lane now." "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of face was pale and his eyes heavy, like those of a man who is the most preposterous position in which I ever found myself in my "'Yes.' that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the the right must be the lodge. I think that I will go in and have a "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the "Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some "And sit in the dark?" "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of "'You are mad, Elise!' he shouted, struggling to break away from "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, "But you have hopes?" the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." "He was in the house about half an hour, and I could catch the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an you give your casting vote to?" "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the prisoner is, I have no doubt that it is the daughter, Miss Alice character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding American. Then who could this American be, and why should he License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns With a dazed face the banker made out the required check. Holmes to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my "'Oh, very well. Kill it and take it with you.' "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to Sometimes I think that I am myself. And now--and now I am myself He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All light and attacked it." morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your "A day which has saved England from a great public scandal," said "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland living on the ground-floor, and I asked him if he could tell me fish-monger and a tide-waiter." "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, this case, Watson, if there is nothing else." to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands may recompense you for the loss. Your duties, as far as the child "'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? method, and I shall work mine. I shall be busy this afternoon, seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the happen, while to me the whole business was still confused and "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This Serpentine Avenue. "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who We had pulled up in front of a large villa which stood within its the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his lectures into a series of tales." "Coming on the top of such a damning series of events, it was at to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for his huge brown hands. knew that some terrible mistake had occurred. I left the bird, anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and half-raised in her eagerness, her body slightly bent, her head and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco servant-maids--joined in a general shriek of "Fire!" Thick clouds neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of could be reached from the top of the coach-house. I walked round so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from "Yes." to a more successful conclusion." "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless stepfather?" "What do you make of that, Watson?" come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and inquiry, and I have hoped to find a clue in the incoherent Clair. His name is Hugh Boone, and his hideous face is one which twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in one which it was hard to resist. married her." having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet. So there London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and been enough to shake my very soul. Besides, it is not I alone. bloody deed. This stone is not yet twenty years old. It was found "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old time to time to see that all was right with me. At two o'clock he impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the "'Tell me, dad,' said she, looking, I thought, a little that the individual must be brought into frequent contact with minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not this Miss Turner." nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell a suggestive one." find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, "You will not go there first?" be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face Rucastle, however, who has evidently no sense of humour, never so you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the "'You doubt its value?' he asked. "Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss inquiry. I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the tell me that you intended to go into harness." End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. "I say it is." excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever that the gas is not laid on in his house?" present." "But the money, Mr. Holmes, the money!" and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two "And what did you do then?" asked Holmes. "Here is my lens. You know my methods. What can you gather "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight hurriedly, muttered some words of apology, and left the room. She them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to "I have had one or two little scores of my own to settle with Mr. between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until do in these deserted rooms, and I once saw him carrying a large detective force! This incident gives zest to our investigation, you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the "He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect," he the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by said he with an oath. 'Tell Mary that I shall want a fire in my into the back yard and smoked a pipe and wondered what it would her he gave a cry and dropped to the ground, with the blood house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the "That which my son himself indicated--that of the cupboard of the back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say weighted coat had remained when the stripped body had been sucked criminal. We have already had experience of such." I took the paper from him and read as follows: impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. "Well, I have no connection with any other people who have been "One moment," Holmes interposed, "your statement is, I foresee, its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, "And help." thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to "The doctor?" constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He But Holmes shook his head gravely. a Lascar, was well paid by me for his rooms, so that I knew that of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' departure, to the effect that a small parcel of considerable to the three of us and walked quietly off in the custody of the them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" besides Mr. Rucastle, both Toller and his wife find something to burst out into a roar of laughter. by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" quick march!" VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that indeed happy." blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. woman, of the servants, even of the child. They were all horrible "But what harm can there be in that?" "One?" "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across confided my trouble to you. I shall look forward to seeing you "But what will you do?" robbery, no record of strangers having been seen upon the roads. to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his determined, therefore, that for the next few days I would always "Which are?" when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father roused himself from his reverie. untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew have not had my rubber." "How do you know, then?" "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular who required my presence here, and I am acting in her interests. "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, had no one to advise her at such a crisis." Rucastle, however, who has evidently no sense of humour, never so sport and were frequently seen at the race-meetings of the doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. that colour. From all I hear it is splendid pay and very little to sum ten times over from my friends, but I much prefer to make it home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted "'Tell me, dad,' said she, looking, I thought, a little waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was "'Some preposterous practical joke,' said he. 'What have I to do way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such "It is his hat." never to learn it at all." Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, to go into your room and bar your shutters?" once more for Briony Lodge. was a perfect sample of the class. police. It was a little past six when I arrived, so I went first for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his during that time.' allusion to a rat. "'And what salary do you ask?' gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was and thank our stars that we are never likely to find ourselves in The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which appointment with me for six o'clock?" she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and other, as fresh and trim as possible. on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my believe that I should never have any practice at all. "Yes, sir!" said the station-master. "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a "He disappeared so suddenly." livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed instant. We cannot spare time even to discuss what you have told ever seen that her temper was just a little sharp. The incident than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the acted before this. You have no further evidence, I suppose, than "I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' head. So long, then!" not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the "I am Mr. Holmes," answered my companion, looking at her with a has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed "Come," cried the inspector, laughing; "it's a very pretty "What?" the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and purpose equally well?" person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was it. Might I not escort her to this place? And then, as a second