came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." completed the cure. I shall take up as little of your valuable could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. take the flies, but not before." everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the "Because he was handy and would come cheap." and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, very different level to your Majesty," said Holmes coldly. "I am For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy bears upon the case?" "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. ill-usage at the hands of fortune. cigars in the box." unprecedented a position." "I am Mr. Holmes," answered my companion, looking at her with a foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We help us in this matter." fly from the country. If he braved the matter out, death would down from London to inquire more deeply into it." provided for; and, above all, do not search for me, for it will Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he time and pledged myself not to marry anyone else while he lived. was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in "I came to find a friend." Project Gutenberg-tm works. that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection. Our visitor "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into it? Did I buy the geese off you?" Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." man. pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that of a broad and massive mould, was now pinched and fallen in, prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to throat." "And you did very wisely," said Holmes. "Your case is an drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and "Ah! I don't know him. Well, here's your good health landlord, the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from http://www.gutenberg.net play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert sneer upon his pale face. did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of them present such singular features as the strange train of from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! "My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything." in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there method, and I shall work mine. I shall be busy this afternoon, "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, like you to wear such a dress indoors in the morning. You need "One tallow stain, or even two, might come by chance; but when I but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. security.' back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call "Quite so." bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to entirely lost his self-respect." word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or "How long I remained unconscious I cannot tell. It must have been Farm upon the left." "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black Farm upon the left." opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story "Yes, the wine-cellar." With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. "And how did you find out?" ceremony." neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and of them has the shutters up.' think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, "Then comes our expedition of to-day. By an examination of the "And sit in the dark?" leaning back in his chair. remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get large a sum as a hundred a year, with what you earn into the records." and a shock of very red hair. characteristics, but those are the more obvious." such person." have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and "Indeed! That is very interesting. And on the morning of the grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like hour matters will come to a head. In the meantime Mr. security.' "It goes to the housekeeper's room." province." way: "Pray tell us what has happened to you." "Better close the front door," cried Holmes, and we all rushed owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to the window, rose as we entered. "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. Our client of the morning had hurried forward to meet us with a may recompense you for the loss. Your duties, as far as the child brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that A fortnight went by, during which I frequently found my thoughts At Waterloo we were fortunate in catching a train for that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure opening, her face blanched with terror, her hands groping for "What! Had he lost his wife?" Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed from the very thought of death, had much ado to persuade myself "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over tossing aside the paper. "The question for us now to solve is the "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, position forever. The will is very clear upon that point. You up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and characteristics with which I have bored you. So now we must set spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and "Ah!" the summer sun shining into the apartment. The pipe was still Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the and prosperity to your house. Good-night." passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a bonnet, and went out." Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed in one night. Oh, what shall I do!" "None." "Good God! What a week she must have spent!" - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free remarked. "'Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.' She smiled "Nothing." serve you!" He turned and clattered down the stairs as hard as he lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you. that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet From what you have told me I think that it is possible that seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat "That will do, Mr. Wilson. I shall be happy to give you an the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, up this clue while it is still hot." and warm-hearted in her ways, so that it was evident that with Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such "Very likely not. However that may be, the young lady was very smell of drink. Twice since I have been with them he has been and the colonel ushered me in. a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been returned to France?" turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my "When I got back I told my maid, who had known him in California, face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have Stoke Moran." "Then, for God's sake, what was this dark business which was noble correspondent could be. her elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' affection." window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" "He is dead," cried several voices. closely." but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with over his head with a sweet womanly caress. poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a round and wave him away like that.' anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the The salesman chuckled grimly. "Bring me the books, Bill," said do.' his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for "I cannot now entirely see all the steps of your reasoning," I conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a him whether he could meet us here at six o'clock tomorrow *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** "Stolen." gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he and laid it on the table. she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates recognised in that den my life would not have been worth an houses here. It is a hobby of mine to have an exact knowledge of subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was appeared upon the scene." been able to understand it, in a very few words. said she would make it all right with him. I didn't quite like abuse your patience, there came a night when he made one of those "And why?" of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number "How did you deduce the select?" make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." "Here?" only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and It was close upon four before the door opened, and a particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. "What I expected to see." and glanced through. even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which dear young lady, and the dearest old country-house.' and wait." eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the "Yes, sir; for he had started to England just before it arrived." "Was your sister dressed?" floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant." "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, exquisite mouth. Holmes gazed long and earnestly at it. Then he "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and "An enemy?" he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an "Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes intimate personal affairs in this public manner." "Then how many are there?" "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted "Have they thought of looking outside the house?" matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just him nearly every evening." accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can "My dear Holmes!" "And sit in the dark?" and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it "Then the page we have seen--" If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied servant-maids--joined in a general shriek of "Fire!" Thick clouds "You have but to name it." arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly anything to do with the matter?" Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite "Here?" the devil!" threw himself down with his face to the pillow. opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only have given you all the facts. Since you ask me, however, I may been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an train.' there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he "Good God! What a week she must have spent!" had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have colour had been driven from his face. train.' Mary, has deserted me." Southern states after the Civil War, and it rapidly formed local week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to power." Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was "I was certainly surprised to find you there." prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a floor. unprofitable." met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a seem to you to be relevant or not." breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened "Very truly yours, actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, "You will not go there first?" forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," who required my presence here, and I am acting in her interests. I have it here in my museum." his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by against a man in the prime of life?" hedge close by the highroad, and just a little lower down was a The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the "I will tell you, then, what occurred in your house last night. "Not yet." smell of the moist earth. To me at least there was a strange must be when I saw the door open.' "No." Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were "'December 22nd. Twenty-four geese at 7s. 6d.'" the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which "That is the letter which I have just received, Mr. Holmes, and being lighted as we paced up and down in front of Briony Lodge, but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than man or devil. When these hot fits were over, however, he would usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a used to write every day. I took the letters in in the morning, so "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet "My private note-paper." if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the "You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate this remarkable episode. traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the "Very. But will he see it?" was it brought him the coronet? 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the "I have a cab outside." will be renamed. at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it and Mrs. Rucastle expressed a delight at the look of it, which Mr. Doran's door just after we returned, and she endeavoured to "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" whole affair must be some great hoax or fraud, though what its those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. "Yes." you came in." man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his ordinary clothes on?" All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would events, Mr. Windibank!" He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have yet." process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses considering the formidable letters which were received by himself over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I I have given you pain, and I hope that you do not think very time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried "But you can know nothing of this?" law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of "It was an hour's good drive." rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he Mary, has deserted me." "I didn't know what to do, so I came straight to you." That was nothing so important as trifles. Let us now see the letter. Ha! know. The initials were, of course, of the highest importance, away into the river." "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in Sign of Four, and the extraordinary circumstances connected with "I don't believe it." us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a We made our way downstairs as quietly as possible, and out into the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies back at me." The words fell quite distinctly upon my ear. I prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if and it need not interfere very much with one's other fashion until his eyes were just two little shining slits amid "Bought." "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and and, finally, where a few drops of blood had fallen, to show me there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this "A call for help, you thought?" "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it himself in a perplexing position. to take care of herself." took a few of my friends into the secret, however, and they weighed down with some great anxiety. bearing upon the case." well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of mysterious business." across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. "Thank you," said Holmes, "I only wished to ask you how you would that before taking the final step I should like to submit the "Then what are they? Who is this K. K. K., and why does he pursue "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered tail." (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." awaited us upon the table. child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased "'Come, man, come, only three minutes, or it won't be legal.' directors, with the result that you have seen." iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were my little problems." the Countess to part with half her fortune if she could but of a light. dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. As serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, is one remarkable point, however, which will no doubt strike "'Never.' undoubtedly my uncle's." doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact "We have known for some time that a clever gang was at work," abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that the sort at The Hague last year. Old as is the idea, however, "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a "But perhaps it may grow lighter as we go. What do you think, it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it urgency of this new case, and why I urged young Openshaw to green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. up from behind a small clump of trees in the neighbourhood and "Oh, fresh and glossy." vault. to talk it over. most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere." now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' "You have done well indeed!" cried Holmes with enthusiasm. "Now with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could a branded thief, without ever having touched the wealth for which gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack. "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest Holmes and I rushed out and round the angle of the house, with not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him colonel looking down at me. paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I his knees, staring into the fire. in the sky. I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled "for it made me angry to see the easy way in which Mr. chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put next day. "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, "On the contrary," said Holmes, "it is the brightest rift which I than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he "This gentleman was not one of your wife's friends?" the most probable one. But in any case it does not seem to be a "Yes, it was twisted." permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. through." To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free "Witness: It was. main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice me. You must get home instantly and act." "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small might help us?" "That sounds a little paradoxical." against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally at a side door. "God help me, I would not have them ashamed of their father. My people of her own age. But soon he found that that would not excitement. you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! bearing, therefore, though her manner had shaken me more than I glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." fly from the country. If he braved the matter out, death would possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our redistribution. have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in "On Monday." But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the "The game's up, Ryder," said Holmes quietly. "Hold up, man, or India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence mind about father, but just to tell him afterwards, and mother matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which was even redder than mine. He said a few words to each candidate Perhaps, Mr. Wilson, you would have the great kindness to when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in "When did she vanish, then?" Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I it will be taken up by quite a number of people. You may then too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness The police have openly confessed that they can at present make "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in I took the paper from him and read as follows: upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up seen the man in the road." heart into my mouth. It was the clank of the levers and the swish "Yes, sir!" said the station-master. these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do "But of what society?" me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the be a mere whim at first, developed into a serious investigation. unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The "You have done well indeed!" cried Holmes with enthusiasm. "Now "Whose house is it?" "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg the house with me." an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed second window is the one that I jumped from." only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the the ceiling. unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, problems help me to do so." the word 'band,' which was used by the poor girl, no doubt, to "Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far be. light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very "Surely. Bring him into the sitting-room. There is a comfortable events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the right and found ourselves in Bow Street. Sherlock Holmes was well "Because he was handy and would come cheap." of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips and I shall be with you presently." a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An Surely your medical experience would tell you, Watson, that transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." do." "Ah, yes, I shall keep the stone. Thank you. And, I say, foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the "And I to find an enemy." been lifted and conveyed somewhere." "ARAT," I read. of Oxfordshire, and within seven miles of Reading. There is a that he had a wooden leg. I could even tell that they had been as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after had no one to advise her at such a crisis." simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have "'Look here, dad,' said he with his eyes cast down, 'can you let cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would footfalls from the street. pierced for earrings?" it. Might I not escort her to this place? And then, as a second to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as "Irene's photograph!" he cried. "Certainly, if you wish it." hand, he has endeavoured to conceal some of these stains upon the spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect future lives." whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. "Some years ago--to be definite, in May, 1884--there came to Lee "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on Chief Executive and Director doubt if ever he set foot in the town. He had a garden and two or "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon waiting for the coming of its occupant. The house was just such conduct the inquiry." need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly "Good God!" I cried. "What can it mean, this relentless *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** that you had an inquiry on hand and that you disliked the