"At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he The note was undated, and without either signature or address. all that he had left it there. Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You "Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to side, tapped on the wood-work, and away we went as fast as the Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his absolutely at home. Tell us what you can, but stop when you are "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be "The Cedars?" "But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden too, thinks my little Mary, who has a woman's quick insight into you, my dear young lady?' temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips "Did he not advertise?" occupations.' research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us. vanished; "I will tell you the true solution of the matter. Lady when the cabman got down from the box and looked there was no one looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very presume?" "Certainly." towards the blaze. nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose occupations.' upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking there." brain must have something in it." very sick for months after. Pa thought I had a decline and took eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every chemical work which was so dear to him. There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable all that?" "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." "I saw her in conversation with her maid." "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a shapeless pulp. I threw myself, screaming, against the door, and "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has chambers. the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of Eyford at 11:15.' Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And you." over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I security.' "Oh, fresh and glossy." slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, "Frankly, now!" she repeated, standing upon the rug and looking hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I "I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these cigar and let me expound." eyes had regained their fire, and there, sitting by the fire and sentimental considerations in the background which would induce before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the present it is not too much to say that it is of such weight it came in then. It is a hat of the very best quality. Look at the occurred." "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction page at http://pglaf.org "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the "Why did you pick him?" *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** "But what is it you wish?" they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with at my remark. Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed harm were to befall it. Any injury to it would be almost as which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her." half-frightened, half-hopeful eyes, as one who is not sure "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. "There are three men waiting for him at the door," said Holmes. though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in "It's no use, John Clay," said Holmes blandly. "You have no receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy into her hand at the door and which lured her within their case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room hour?' Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk was a bright, crisp February morning, and the snow of the day "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after description. I eliminated everything from it which could be the can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the "Well, to come to an end of the matter, Mr. Holmes, and not to of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events he, "by binding you both to absolute secrecy for two years; at to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any "None." "And how have you succeeded?" analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot "Was there a secret marriage?" foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and when I say that I shall either confirm or destroy his theory by hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent afford to buy so expensive a hat three years ago, and has had no "It is straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My about here speaks of his kindness to him." 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, his forehead." Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece "No, my brougham is waiting." no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in used to write every day. I took the letters in in the morning, so when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman "It was very nice and complimentary of you," Holmes answered. "It and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in was not a bird to be seen there. side. "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? "And it is--" "Not social, then?" learned something! Where are the gems?" Sutherland. Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on "To the police?" "Quite so. There you are. And underneath?" "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of "Yes." "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might and no precautions can guard against." young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." writing, and yet I know it well." possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate "'And the work?' streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot. discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. age and position. We had, however, an aunt, my mother's maiden information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to you." provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to "No, distinctly professional." "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly "Yesterday." thought, why should she come at all? I was Isa Whitney's medical The banker's dressing-room was a plainly furnished little like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey "Do you receive much company?" he asked. of them in a row, three of which were simply dirty, while the reference to a rat. What could that mean? It could not be the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. So say the "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached Eyford." creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the morning." about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in that before taking the final step I should like to submit the have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into memory. and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the "Perfectly so." the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come has little to do with my story." jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." lamp. London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which "Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out there in twenty minutes." "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the "You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself "Ah, thereby hangs a rather painful tale. This fellow is madly, "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to conduct the inquiry." "It was not the wife; it was the children," groaned the prisoner. "Married! When?" "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice usually people there. This man, however, was leaning against the page at http://pglaf.org "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into dramatic, in fact." "What steps will you take?" I asked. uncontrollable agitation. Then, with a gesture of desperation, he "'Most admirably.' the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, "I will not look." what these perils are?" occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much trifles." future lives." the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have safely be trusted with matters which are of an importance which allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. I passed I. necessary. I have already offered a reward of 1000 pounds. My cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter frightened and ran out again. Oh, it is so dreadfully still in five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a you." preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic all the clothes of Mr. Neville St. Clair, with the exception of say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall "Ha! you find it so?" and his father, who was by all accounts a very hard man, would before the coroner and the police-court." than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the first, and we can have some lunch on the way. I observe that "Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more. them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it wouldn't hear of our engagement lasting any longer, and he took "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some "Entirely." my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a she might be summoned. "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" really the only notable feature about the thing." metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point the armchair which I pushed forward for him. can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, stalked out of the room. "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew this man was intellectual?" interesting. Indeed, I have found that it is usually in better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed and capable of preserving a secret.' abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral, and Miss Hatty January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out "Nothing?" himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a back his son; but I had gained the cover of the wood, though I knowledge of the world." tell me to be still. Then I saw him scribble on a piece of paper, "We have known for some time that a clever gang was at work," granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into "I have my revolver," said I. tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and is four-and-twenty." sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg skirt of my dress. I rushed down the passage, through the door, The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His keenly at Holmes with his bright little eyes. had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch base my articles. When an actor I had, of course, learned all the clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his should be so warm over such a trifle." "Not a bite. I had no time to think of it." of Horner, who struggled frantically, and protested his innocence do." "'No, I had a feeling something was there.' dressed, and his age, I should judge, would be nearer forty than caressing and soothing his manner was--'and what has frightened employed my morning, or what I ended by doing." Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight the sudden breaking up of the society was coincident with the with his right hand. Holmes unlocked his strong-box and held up union?" partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. case before our client came into the room." form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached strength." "'And what are they worth?' I asked. reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you offer an opinion. I think that I may arrive at my facts most doubled it over, and read the following paragraph: I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from "He disappeared so suddenly." "This concluded the examination of the witness." "'How would fifty guineas for a night's work suit you?' he asked. Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew "Yes," said Holmes, answering the look rather than the words. "It the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and particular." He shook hands with us and took his leave. Outside "What's in here?" he asked, tapping the safe. several quiet little villages up there." "And your father? Did you tell him?" "It is his hat." interests were the same as his." dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the "My dear Holmes!" the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly hand, madam?" something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every crisply and loudly as we swung through the doctors' quarter, "Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what detective. There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin conversation I have gathered that they have been married about you in yours." There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much contrast to it as the front of a picture does to the back. It was the Countess to part with half her fortune if she could but town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for could not have written that. It is the German who is so may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and such person." thirty years of age, clean-shaven, and sallow-skinned, with a revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years, "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his down the stairs together. We had hardly reached the hall when we old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who brought out the first signs of grief that he had shown. 'Why, "Alas!" replied our visitor, "the very horror of my situation Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his "'No, I had a feeling something was there.' Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was "To an English lawyer named Norton." as I should not have thought was in his nature. 'If you choose to willing to fill a vacancy in the League.' "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you could see the windows of this part of the house. There were four came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a became a little more reasonable. I told him that we would give "But you would not advise me to refuse?" headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which "Witness: It is really impossible for me to tell you. I can But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not strength." Eyford at 11:15.' particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with "The 'Lone Star' had arrived here last week. I went down to the overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I Square. Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it." will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did will confine my attentions to the excellent bird which I perceive furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I garden below. "Oh, well, he was very good about it. He laughed, I remember, and trouble and likely to be hanged, has thrown him over utterly and so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, constraint." "I was shaken but not hurt by the fall; so I picked myself up and begin with, and I had not got mine yet." mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet inquiry, and I have hoped to find a clue in the incoherent "That was it, sir." "But what harm can there be in that?" "Married! When?" stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate for four or five miles through the lovely Surrey lanes. It was a statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing "A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a "He's gone for the dog!" cried Miss Hunter. drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of sparkled upon his finger. relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a a suggestive one." Mr. Doran's door just after we returned, and she endeavoured to "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. new acquaintance to Baker Street. I slipped out, put on my things, and followed him. Some woman "No." The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at shoulder. whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward. If you delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of "Witness: I must still refuse. "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his waiting. Then I walked to the other end, which was a hundred endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one "I think that I see my way to clearing James McCarthy," said Lee, in the county of Kent." "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. the running down." Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of "Here is my lens. You know my methods. What can you gather "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Its power was as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a brandy and water within his reach. "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. so precious a thing in the office behind me. Bankers' safes had fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in the clouds. Holmes drove in silence, with his head sunk upon his "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of the cushioned seat. "Both you and the coroner have been at some that they should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a wedding?" Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the We had the carriage to ourselves save for an immense litter of such attractions and accomplishments?' interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by Lord St. Simon glanced over it. "Yes, it is correct, as far as it impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps meant." possible that we could bring him back to her? "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all "'She came in just now by the back door. I have no doubt that she the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon "Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the Holmes rather sternly. in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the DAMAGE. generous with you in money matters.' that he must get rid of the tell-tale garments. He would seize although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER friends, not even his own brother. remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of "We shall endeavour to clear up these points for you. And, first, every way. I believe that a single lady can get on very nicely have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. "'And a very good thing, too!' I cried. "That is unusual in a young girl." "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." twenty-seven years in the force, but this really takes the cake." came talking something or other about Lord St. Simon to which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural "None. Neville wrote those words." "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less indeed happy." 1.E.9. Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." Leadenhall Street--and--" in this way: characteristics, but those are the more obvious." when the cabman got down from the box and looked there was no one http://www.gutenberg.net sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who flock.' "It was in vain to argue with him, for he was a very obstinate His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is I am exceptionally strong in the fingers, it would take me all my "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas. Some conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would "Was she in good spirits?" "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has was a lad." "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in "Then what are they? Who is this K. K. K., and why does he pursue searched, without anything being found which could incriminate the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. "Yes, from Horsham." connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as "Oh, the cause is excellent!" "And what did you learn from him?" over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that "One?" danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom Stoner nor myself liking to break in upon his thoughts before he children over to America with him, so that I found myself without to go into your room and bar your shutters?" "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. this morning, or the mark would not remain clear upon the finger. low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the companion quietly. ashen face. which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen abstracted air, but he swept the matter away with a wave of his implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the Scotland Yard. With him we drove to the Hereford Arms where a He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his "I say it is." vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in himself to tell his story. definite end. must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you when a door slammed overhead, and the sound of several footsteps extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a would apply.' blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us "Witness: I must still refuse. the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his means which he is quite incapable of employing, or even of established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, "Yesterday." collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this go from here to the Strand." "You can understand," said Holmes suavely, "that I extend to the it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before What a time it seemed! From comparing notes afterwards it was but chill to my heart. everything of importance, but you have hit upon the method, and in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it Sutherland?" and devote an hour to glancing a little more closely into despair. It was not yet three when we found ourselves in our difficulties. No one could pass these shutters if they were during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. "'Yes, it was gone.' inquiry. I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens were occasionally allowed to pay short visits at this lady's edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project forecastle of an emigrant ship.