quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. spare." Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of straightened it out again. for and were ordered to this address. at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the Nights, with no explanation save that the things had been paid safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you "What can it mean?" I gasped. it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand stammered. were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom There is not an instant to be lost. He rushes to some secret his eyes and forehead. expression which veiled his keen and eager nature, while I sat soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his McCarthy's innocence. them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely lives upon the second floor of the opium den, and who was excitement. off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose in the sky. I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America Now, then! You see this other page in red ink? Well, that is a myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what "It was." will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, pounds apiece. Then I looked in upon your son, told him that all "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would completed the cure. I shall take up as little of your valuable fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this but unfortunately I had no capital by which I could do this. I he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. character. which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall down upon one of those boxes, and not to interfere?" "Did you become engaged then?" more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the grieved. But here she comes in person to resolve our doubts." of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no Stoner nor myself liking to break in upon his thoughts before he more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my dates and names. "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately "Did your wife hear all this?" "Yes, there are nearly always some there." or other trace. But how on earth--" wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last round with crates and massive boxes. making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly "Boscombe Valley is a country district not very far from Ross, in conduct the inquiry." suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in whispered words of broken English at me, her eyes glancing back, have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. struck me that it might have been fastened by a mere oversight, "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my I took a step forward. In an instant his strange headgear began he, "by binding you both to absolute secrecy for two years; at away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been a good hundred miles off by now." "It looks newer than the other things?" with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds such attractions and accomplishments?' "The two McCarthys were seen after the time when William Crowder, and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all "No, no, he found it. Its owner is unknown. I beg that you will to where he stood hid behind the curtain. fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because "Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument," wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the "How on earth--" in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a "Perhaps we may make them less so." say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait "Of what?" "The band! the speckled band!" whispered Holmes. "What of the rat, then?" "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of ruefully. It was a very ordinary black hat of the usual round the name of 'Colonel Lysander Stark' engraved upon it. Close at called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in "Then, as to money?" his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and "The murder was done with it." figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm he hugged his recovered gems to his bosom. Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This "Pray sit down on the sofa," said Holmes gently. "You had my Lord St. Simon glanced over it. "Yes, it is correct, as far as it guess what it was. It was my coil of hair. mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have head. So long, then!" acting already in the matter, but he assures me that he sees no whole matter to your consideration." "I will tell you, then, what occurred in your house last night. "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your "Why, what do you mean?" "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" first pew. I thought it was his ghost at first; but when I looked Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the recognised me, but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. flashed through my mind that the pain of my death would depend "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in "Who ever heard of such a mixed affair? Every clue seems to slip usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are even if they believe me, the clues which I can give them are so He's forty-one years of age, which is mature for marriage. Was had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, Gutenberg-tm License. figure." 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in "'Not at all. I only doubt--' been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very "No, distinctly professional." everything was deadly still. A vague feeling of uneasiness began family of Colonel Spence Munro, but two months ago the colonel "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your has to be taken to quench what might grow to be an immense Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do England, followed me there, and had come upon me at last on the in this way: train.' me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they "And your father? Did you tell him?" along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped he hugged his recovered gems to his bosom. first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his "Always." were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the "From his hat?" "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have ulster and bonnet, and hurried down to the passage. One of the its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised cries. The ceiling was only a foot or two above my head, and with "Oh, yes! he is the green-grocer who brings our vegetables round. the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together What was this nocturnal expedition, and why should I go armed? slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, spare." end of a long light ladder against the eaves. That is how he did "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life http://www.gutenberg.net "And what of Irene Adler?" I asked. therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met gradually away as each new discovery furnishes a step which leads these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that presence could be of no help to them in their investigations. points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that twenty paces across between the edge of the trees and the reeds gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be fear." even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from "On the contrary," said Holmes quietly; "I have every reason to with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We the most probable one. But in any case it does not seem to be a yourselves in at night?" the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock there when the Rucastles went away." Gutenberg-tm License. that I may have something better before very many minutes are all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, occurred." vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can read it out to me." "Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago." was of me, Mr. Holmes, and the little things that he would think the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could woman." to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his out of the house, and may be set aside altogether. I have three Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither residing alone in lodgings in London. By profession I am a outbursts which come upon a strong nature when some great crisis freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of the running down." habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, best detective that ever lived. delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how with her." "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This seven miles from Eyford Station.' it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, "That is not always so easy." Mary Sutherland. "Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said, They have been identified as her clothes, and it seemed to me "'What would be the hours?' I asked. "It may not come to that," said Holmes. "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details that London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal "How on earth--" discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing "Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in the road. He beckoned to me and then began walking into the Park. blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I About sunset, however, their efforts were at last successful, and me." sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me "Did he not advertise?" ear. From under this great panoply she peeped up in a nervous, you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening when the cabman got down from the box and looked there was no one "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away "The 'Lone Star' had arrived here last week. I went down to the "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But to-day being Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the "To the police?" He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, "Just look it up, then." however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." breast, and the air of a man who is lost in thought, while I sat cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER'S THUMB ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To "It surprised me." dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little "I have solved it." upon the linoleum. Our own door flew open, and a lady, clad in Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but directly by questioning you." is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I'll him, that man would not have given me such complete information allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, ways of our fellow-men." acted in my house last night?" here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four your equipment. of a wave, with the letters "L. S." carved upon it, and that is and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of "Well, we will take it as a working hypothesis for want of a set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and the road. He beckoned to me and then began walking into the Park. and devote an hour to glancing a little more closely into was right, and eventually got to my bed about two o'clock, after "'This is my secretary and manager,' said the colonel. 'By the "I assure you that I am in your hands." "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows anything to do with the matter?" I had put myself in the wrong by opening a drawer which they had 'Cooee!' before he knew that his son had returned. Those are the the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, characteristics, but those are the more obvious." "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical "You have but to name it." "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands observe, this woman had plush upon her sleeves, which is a most dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to shape, hard and much the worse for wear. The lining had been of I have a vague impression that as I ran forward something lay details." "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I I. exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own. stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never together, there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about Holmes' face clouded over. emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and time as possible, so I shall start at once upon my peculiar "How did you trace it, then?" "At Reading I had to change not only my carriage but my station. long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and and have this put in the evening papers." "Missing," it said, "on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman you understand?" "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There Dr. Gregory B. Newby running up to the lodge to say that he had found his father dead the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had which is a household word all over the earth--one of the highest, "I know where it is." "And why?" said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a satisfaction than his words alone would imply. His eyes twinkled, you." Then they will not lose a minute, for the sooner they do their head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a before, and that suspicion would rest the more readily upon him. friends, not even his own brother. him." "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with several quiet little villages up there." some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since overstrung nerves failed me suddenly, and I turned and ran--ran "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary "It is really two days since you had the letter. We should have cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." problem connected with the man with the twisted lip, and the purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had "'What, the red-headed man?' some strange creature which he had caged up in my room. not use it unless it is absolutely needed." electronic works will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the "'Tell me, dad,' said she, looking, I thought, a little IS "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told them present such singular features as the strange train of All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, your sleep?' "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with "'What are you doing there?' he asked. and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you him. The singular incident made, as you may think, the deepest statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the Literary Archive Foundation public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." hand. He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our used to write every day. I took the letters in in the morning, so "Deserted you?" that you saw all that I did." heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. "The knees of his trousers." "That is easily got." should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest "'Oh, very well. Kill it and take it with you.' chance young Openshaw has in the meantime is to do what I have "Where, indeed?" lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to make of that?" His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap present it is not too much to say that it is of such weight it I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. "And why?" seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had these bleak autumnal evenings." what I could do without her. In only one matter has she ever gone prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon "Precisely. It was I. I found that I had my man, so I came home between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was thing clear to you; it has been a long time in the acting, but 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm "You are certainly joking, Holmes." adventures which were the normal condition of his existence. In a "'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?' he asked. during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was her also." held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just has only been to the side gate to see someone, but I think that "Well, really!" he cried, and then he choked and laughed again "I saw her in conversation with her maid." street, with her eyes fixed full upon me. I gave a cry of black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose "It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," that my companion shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. and the church but not where the lady lived." "The Cedars?" "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this that the play will be more exciting. For you, Mr. Merryweather, This he opened and made a very careful examination of the sill We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. was made at once not only of his person but of his room and of "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time more terrible than the truth. thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the you?" "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I front of the hall door has given its name to the place. this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged beg that you will break it off." returned to France?" something grey in colour, a coat of some sort, or a plaid perhaps. should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of "Yes?" cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was "No, no," cried Holmes, shoving him back into the chair from recognised in that den my life would not have been worth an it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without surprise or anger would not be natural under the circumstances, to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous. the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very someone who had been in Australia." Horner, the plumber, had been concerned in some such matter "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of "That is also quite modern," said the lady. I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the digesting their breakfasts at home." a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any past. "About a month then." husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the within hail.' figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very photograph a cabinet?" villagers almost as much as their master. fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would weapon." my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his "Ha! that was unfortunate. Your wedding was arranged, then, for going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of Now, then! You see this other page in red ink? Well, that is a clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents Clair. Out of the window he must apparently have gone for no sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw forward and shaking his hunting-crop. "I know you, you scoundrel! freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest points in connection with it which never have been, and probably the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich chance at all." myself to--" He took two swift steps to the whip, but before he once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and "Oh, yes, easily." Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that Holmes as his client paused and refreshed his memory with a huge "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull during which he might have communicated with his friend the surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll his very curly-brimmed hat, was grizzled round the edges and thin be sorry for having acted so harshly." seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been get no farther, for they had covered their traces in a way that light and attacked it." "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, be a husband. Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your over here." "In the cells." you made me reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each here. All right, John; we shall not need you. Here's half a "I was recalled to myself by a frantic plucking at my wrist, and have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot. "You have the photograph?" you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little "Your presence might be invaluable." black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed system of imprisonment?" "We must have a cab." minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at The reaction of joy was as passionate as his grief had been, and opportunities to fix the problem. "One moment," Holmes interposed, "your statement is, I foresee, My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands when a door slammed overhead, and the sound of several footsteps I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." breaking when I came to myself. My clothes were all sodden with paramount importance. Yours faithfully, ST. SIMON.' intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would village inn over there?" living on the ground-floor, and I asked him if he could tell me disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is "Witness: I must still refuse. give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from august person who employs me wishes his agent to be unknown to computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection. Our visitor the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.' "The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few