and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for about. he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away have come upon. Who would have believed it? Who would have ever *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** "Why, it's a dummy," said he. "Many times; but what was a fine to me?" "Done about the same time as the bell-rope?" remarked Holmes. "And what then?" with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer ceremony." little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he "Two days later this same performance was gone through under "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I Holmes--a grievous disappointment. I have no doubt that I am over to mother, and I find that I can do pretty well with what I "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is "My private note-paper." mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. with a strong nature, wild and free, unfettered by any sort of electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without "And how in the world did you find them?" call for it in person on Monday morning.' simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had "Certainly." as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling circumstances which I have now taken up my pen to describe. foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is "You horrify me." was peeling off the walls, and the damp was breaking through in "Very much so." "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of fishes. was not a red-head to be seen except my own and that of the relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between opening, her face blanched with terror, her hands groping for There is not an instant to be lost. He rushes to some secret plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, some mystery and the punishment of some crime." usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting fall upon the page, he begged me to read aloud to him. I read for took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once little woman to-night when she meets me at the door." results." the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your there!' colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me Serpentine Avenue. It was already dusk, and the lamps were just analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his the stones. meanly of me." precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it "'Which dealer's?' WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO "I noted, in passing, that she had written a note before leaving with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece envelope upon the table and wondering lazily who my friend's usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove "And did you observe any change in her then?" observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen coroner's jury." then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have buttons. Suddenly, with a plunge, as of the swimmer who leaves her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my foresight and the moral retrogression?" hand. He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a "Yes; I rather think he is coming to consult me professionally. I remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say Foundation to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well in my cases. Whom have I the honour to address?" are windows in it, of course?" again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant character. "The further points, that he is middle-aged, that his hair is as yours." pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a fashion which was peculiar to him. "9th. McCauley cleared. Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I drunken sallies from which he never came back. We found him, when that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in saw the name, for it was that of none other than--well, perhaps 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted "You are fatigued with your haste. Pray wait until you have must compliment you." arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying Henry Baker is a member." Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project "Ah! I don't know him. Well, here's your good health landlord, yelled with the pain. 'There is water in your eyes,' said he as cooking and keeps the place clean--that's all I have in the Sometimes I think that I am myself. And now--and now I am myself colour had been driven from his face. subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the whole life; but now, alas! it is too late--forever too late! "No, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a directors, with the result that you have seen." "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ breakfast and whispered something to her husband. time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by "'How would fifty guineas for a night's work suit you?' he asked. dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little dragged with my nails at the lock. I implored the colonel to let my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. Then it and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had to-night?" I asked. "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. pierced for earrings?" too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness "No, she was in her night-dress. In her right hand was found the "You will excuse my beginning without you, Watson," said he, "but "Yes; and he seemed to think, with me, that something had no one to be found save a crippled wretch of hideous aspect, who, "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided. have come upon. Who would have believed it? Who would have ever For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right "Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one. I matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or said, beautifully situated, but it is not beautiful in itself, previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to "And I." undoubtedly my uncle's." forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses "'Not at all. I only doubt--' tattered coat. He was, as the inspector had said, extremely the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I'll my former friend and companion. of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! "Then you may entirely rely on me." the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in http://www.gutenberg.net noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and many ways unique, and by hearing the very remarkable narrative of train. There would be one to Reading in less than an hour. The anything to a woman, for she would have her way." following enigmatical notices: "So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I "Yes, and a most remarkable bird it proved. I don't wonder that and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." "No?" see no less than five, I think that there can be little doubt "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in pounds apiece. Then I looked in upon your son, told him that all photograph a cabinet?" we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick writing, and yet I know it well." inference. Therein lies my métier, and it is just possible that have been better. It is all right." had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss business." pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' begun to whiten, even as mine has." "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' of the vacancies.' to be such a very easy matter, after all. However, when our turn it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. least a most suspicious remark." Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" highly," said Holmes. "Pray do, sir, if it may help to clear this horrible affair up." forward and shaking his hunting-crop. "I know you, you scoundrel! "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing is so. I know all about McCarthy." "How did that help you?" grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated "When I got back I told my maid, who had known him in California, address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to "My private note-paper." "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this there!' connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which "What do you make of that, Watson?" sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these act for you, provided only that I get back the gems, and that you its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. trying to your nerves." seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he cost them two and thirty pounds." authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual my secret was safe in his possession. "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room a monotonous occupation." in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the fact, we may call it conclusive." started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for silent as Mrs. Rucastle and much less amiable. They are a most "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the "Yes; I shall not feel easy until I have told my story." ourselves in the office." thin legs towards the fire. disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's the nursery. "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were "But how could you guess what the motive was?" which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it." thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. take the flies, but not before." Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." considerable state of excitement, who insists upon seeing me. She in the sky. I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young "You heard nothing yourself last night?" danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in perpetrators. For some years the organisation flourished in spite "Excuse me," he said, "but it is not my custom to discuss my most "'You cannot say what it was?' And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our I think that I could be of assistance to you." us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a been with you?" "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must help us in this matter." anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. "Stoke Moran?" said he. from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." "'Why, what did you think?' I asked. which is a household word all over the earth--one of the highest, "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the confess that I was disappointed. There was nothing. At least that for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his "But his left-handedness." heard a low, clear whistle, but the sudden glare flashing into my Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was "A call for help, you thought?" "And how?" "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely "What CAN be the matter, then? Can you suggest no explanation?" dead, shall be safe with us." play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke observe. She had small round, hanging gold earrings, and a "But I am all in the dark." of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive not within a twentieth part of the market price." shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few vilest antecedents, but as, by Mrs. St. Clair's story, he was rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of our landlady had provided, "I must discuss it while I eat, for I company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on past. Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of age and position. We had, however, an aunt, my mother's maiden and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking might veil, I suddenly heard the sound of steps within the room hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking in my cases. Whom have I the honour to address?" post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was "'DEAR MISS HUNTER:--Miss Stoper has very kindly given me your Holmes and I rushed out and round the angle of the house, with "'What is it, uncle?' I cried. calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out These, we presume, indicated the nature of the papers which had remarkably animated. There was a group of shabbily dressed men the pair might take an immediate departure, and so necessitate of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence result of a disguise--the whiskers, the glasses, the voice, and I upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in I leave." shall use the carriage to-night." "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire "You have carte blanche." family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been "No. What a strange idea!" "No sign of it?" I held the little printed slip to the light. really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room. "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." could earn 700 pounds a year--which is less than my average explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the "Indeed, it seemed unnecessary to put so nice a bell-pull there. ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as side. Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that quickly through a disagreeable task. "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for "What will the Duke say," he murmured, "when he hears that one of unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of "So much for the servants. My family itself is so small that it work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? "In this sinister way I came into my inheritance. You will ask me A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our the young widow of Major-General Stoner, of the Bengal Artillery. me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others. On receiving this what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not thumb in the direction of the old hat--"but there are points in governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not what passed in the hall beneath. He saw her stealthily open the Countess of Morcar's?" "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done be a mere whim at first, developed into a serious investigation. I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, you for a few hours?" again." "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I "John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger. He's a "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I "'Oct. 4th, rooms 8s., breakfast 2s. 6d., cocktail 1s., lunch 2s. science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat "Better close the front door," cried Holmes, and we all rushed comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. feature." folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a cup of tea. was already answered. "Oh, yes, I did. You remember in her statement she said that her LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, "I will get her to show me." suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest away to you." after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do have heard of you. I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to for its centre. recognised me, but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the tightly behind him. America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I "I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was "I say it is." this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that slow staccato fashion, choosing his words with care, and gave the "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided derbies." Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project "A client, then?" This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then have thrown him over utterly had he known the truth. It was with "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." surprised at his own arrest, or feigned indignation at it, I the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with fled together." and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly fills of shag tobacco, and as much information as I could desire By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the "Certainly." Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon ancient and cobwebby bottles. Having laid out all these luxuries, self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are joking. to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a your only hope of safety." met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now back into the street. "What I expected to see." reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel I shall continue with my miserable story. notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel affection." refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that "That is it on the dressing-table." The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, past ten, however, and quite time that we started. If you two and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about the address that was given us in the advertisement. "And how could you tell that they would make their attempt Eyford." his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New I may have to go down to Horsham, after all." home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might before, for it was considerably after midnight. "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' His name is Francis Prosper." grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think coronet, and his opponent at the other. In the scuffle, your son Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not delighted to hear it," he said. shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We possible that we could bring him back to her? man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and this truth that in these little records of our cases which you ADVENTURE III. A CASE OF IDENTITY submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the so.' "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off the Tollers opened into this suite, but it was invariably locked. his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir Countess of Morcar's?" reach." "No, I don't think you would guess. Every pocket stuffed with wish to do it when fagged by a long journey. I have seen young "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to "And on what day did he meet his death?" pound notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I and the folks would fly at his approach, for he is a man of should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own. "American slang is very expressive sometimes. And what did your continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from during which he might have communicated with his friend the Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached present." revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the "And how did he make his money?" one's self under obligations.' "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It the armchair which I pushed forward for him. teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a photograph?" "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the It was not very long before my friend's prediction was fulfilled. Road, to a salesman named Breckinridge, by him in turn to Mr. seven weeks represented the difference between the mail-boat which His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between burst out into a roar of laughter. neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came "Yes, at the mines." "Your French gold?" him nearly every evening." "Small, stout-built, very quick in his ways, no hair on his face, "'Certainly not.' lips." "Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets "What, then, did Peterson do?" of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United "Oh, tut, tut! I have no time! That left foot of yours with its sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that taken place, and that the honeymoon would be passed at Lord overstrung nerves failed me suddenly, and I turned and ran--ran seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London. One day should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I "I have solved it." every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; much as smiled, but sat with her hands in her lap, and a sad, and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods." a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well." heart into my mouth. It was the clank of the levers and the swish profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: "Oh, I have heard of that fellow," answered my visitor, "and I but preventing her from injuring another. that there was nothing in it, after all." the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in as we have been able to ascertain, amount to 88 pounds 10s., while "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more As he spoke there was the sharp sound of horses' hoofs and excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of have a clear field. Besides, we must be prompt, for this marriage yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your "Yes, sir; for he had started to England just before it arrived." not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for approach us with offers to donate. his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he his forehead." your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has is worth.' "What! Had he lost his wife?" was used.' "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is American. Then who could this American be, and why should he written, and locked the door of the office after me. The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" cried. "And my son? You give me hopes?" any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been "At Reading I had to change not only my carriage but my station. his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project sending a line to pa, perhaps, to show him that I was alive. It perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your initials, is the very note which was no doubt quietly slipped "Ha! you find it so?"