becomes even more simple." stair. The latter led to another broad passage, and just as we bachelor.' "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, "BALLARAT." and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised orange pips. this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss "Her banker or her lawyer. There is that double possibility. But "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third "Showing that she had struck a light and looked about her when Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily gone. miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was even if they believe me, the clues which I can give them are so door?" problem connected with the man with the twisted lip, and the Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive "Let me see!" said Holmes. "Hum! Born in New Jersey in the year accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better dear young lady, and the dearest old country-house.' "That's no good." with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned has only been to the side gate to see someone, but I think that black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to results." The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good "Yes, it was twisted." developed." The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from to be a simple case; to me it seems exceedingly complex. Consider vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in business matters.' highly," said Holmes. donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate photograph?" is very fortunate, as I have one or two matters of importance to was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his occurred." slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see other means.' my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have "The best possible." "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure "He was in the house about half an hour, and I could catch "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the England, followed me there, and had come upon me at last on the door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." "'Why do you think that I lock this door?' former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his weighed down with some great anxiety. relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic points in connection with it which never have been, and probably "That will do, Mr. Wilson. I shall be happy to give you an "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some protruding fingers and a horrid red, spongy surface where the fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from once more for Briony Lodge. and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure friend, he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By Jove!" can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive promised to bring home. than to us. man and his wife. Toller, for that is his name, is a rough, any." the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes "Yes." few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a together. problems help me to do so." "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an "'Which dealer's?' confess that I was disappointed. There was nothing. At least that enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project the summer sun shining into the apartment. The pipe was still "I think that I had better go, Holmes." once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me Perhaps, Mr. Wilson, you would have the great kindness to morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into "Stoke Moran?" said he. to smoke. She left her room, therefore, and came into mine, where attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I situation." to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the "Certainly, madam." little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful stormy, so that, in spite of the help of several passers-by, it A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush "It is solved." "A considerable crime is in contemplation. I have every reason to unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again--of course glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." character. all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an "'The work appears to be light and the pay munificent.' "All right," said Holmes quietly. "I have given you the chance. the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a ourselves in the office." "You have it!" he gasped. "I am saved! I am saved!" "Yes." preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in King Edward Street, near St. Paul's.' upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal whole life; but now, alas! it is too late--forever too late! "'And he is admirably suited for it,' the other answered. 'He has large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag greatest consternation by the strange and painful episodes which him. The singular incident made, as you may think, the deepest and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their "It appears that his arrest did not take place at once, but after set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil's pet collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in "That Miss Flora Millar, the lady who had caused the disturbance, sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down placed his cuttings. when you have done it." prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So abstracted air, but he swept the matter away with a wave of his house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very yelled with the pain. 'There is water in your eyes,' said he as "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave "'But, madam,' said I, 'I have not yet done what I came for. I "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a "Awake, Watson?" he asked. it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared beside the fire, however, with the intention of awaiting him, "I think that I heard a ring," said Holmes. "Yes, there are steps detained." pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' "'MY DEAREST UNCLE:--I feel that I have brought trouble upon you, in this way: "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon doubt. You have come in by train this morning, I see." "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they my special province." "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, Sometimes I think that I am myself. And now--and now I am myself however. I left the house a little after eight o'clock this green of the new foliage. Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in have established a very serious case against the son of the in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient again on its way. far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked you will be good enough to call to-morrow afternoon at three in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very certainty. We have come now out of mere vagueness to the definite Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A better in every way that they should make their position a little enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't Literary Archive Foundation gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and served to weaken the effect. a very grave face. grasp, he hurried from the room. "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step unkempt, staring out at me. pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper "Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry very different level to your Majesty," said Holmes coldly. "I am must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I sum ten times over from my friends, but I much prefer to make it of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner. Then he "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that sound at heart." be, blockaded the house, and having met you succeeded by certain helping a boy to put up the shutters. so precious a thing in the office behind me. Bankers' safes had the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the were wasted." The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down The reaction of joy was as passionate as his grief had been, and heart into my mouth. It was the clank of the levers and the swish every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On vanished from the window so suddenly that it seemed to her that disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was man's hat, on which he raised his stick to defend himself and, any little problem which you may submit to me." rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. in his power. typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, whole life; but now, alas! it is too late--forever too late! "It is half-past ten now." sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his humming a tune under my breath to keep up my spirits and feeling Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" Stevenson, of Threadneedle Street." rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification in command of one of the forts upon Portsdown Hill. I was glad red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross "Well, when I called last week I was shown into the little office belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay you are threatened by a very real and imminent danger. How do you stories of which my employer had an immense répertoire, and which "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a "It surprised me." Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all They have been identified as her clothes, and it seemed to me Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and and the folks would fly at his approach, for he is a man of you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, "'Then, good-night.' I kissed her and went up to my bedroom who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No, house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during in the strongest terms. Evidence of a previous conviction for "Really, Mr. Holmes," said Mr. Merryweather as we followed them boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand "It is half-past ten now." and he has blasted my life. I'll tell you first how I came to be over with notes and figures. sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said prison!" to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. "Dr. Becher's." Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole tattered coat. He was, as the inspector had said, extremely remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to me what he had done with the three missing stones. name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost his cane at the bell-pull. "That is also quite modern," said the lady. It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon the house with me." Mr. Doran's door just after we returned, and she endeavoured to impression upon me, and I pondered over it and turned it every "Nothing?" hour matters will come to a head. In the meantime Mr. summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were "Yes, it is all we can do to make him wash his hands, and his arrived. I inquired of him whether he had ever heard of Colonel second window is the one that I jumped from." other is to the young lady's stepfather, Mr. Windibank, asking "But the mystery?" "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle "Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody in some way, and if you will not let me have it, then I must try He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot article, for example, as to the disappearance of the bride." Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed doubt. You have come in by train this morning, I see." happened." Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of was already answered. either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to "I should like to see him very much." ran thus: it. Might I not escort her to this place? And then, as a second coronet," cried Mr. Holder. "Oh, my God! what a blind fool I have plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of prisoner's face. frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal. Her features As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the interested in these little problems, and since you are good round and wave him away like that.' Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about more adapted for summer than for winter. Ah, Watson, you have again on its way. believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she "And now?" He raised his hand. Holmes rose and sat down at the table with his pen in his hand But there was no great difficulty in the first stage of my that?' your Highness to the police-station?" since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two "Precisely so. But how--" problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which miles off. "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into "There is some building going on there," said Holmes; "that is absolutely innocent man, who had no idea that the bird which he entirely wrong scent. I can only claim the merit that I instantly neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the one which it was hard to resist. to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel once by paint. I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which brain must have something in it." on in his house." rooms." already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my point in the dark hollow of his hand. the matter?" this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the ascended the stair I met him coming down with an old rusty key, however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood of a light. our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were least a most suspicious remark." Munro.' "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" "How did you deduce the select?" "You are certainly joking, Holmes." one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than extraordinary contortions. Having once made up my mind, you know the steps which I took in without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the wedding?" association with Holmes, when we were sharing rooms as bachelors "Excuse me," he said, "but it is not my custom to discuss my most it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." "And in this way he managed that your good man should have no "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." have bitterly regretted the impulse which caused him to drop his the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece thought of my fifty-guinea fee, of my wearisome journey, and of heart turned to water, for there was no sign of the stone, and I one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for have got?" fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in Rucastle, however, who has evidently no sense of humour, never so country--in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. 'Remarkable as being no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards constraint." Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous "I fear not." of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you danger is over." strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle "Yes, it is all we can do to make him wash his hands, and his already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own "A thing like a cleaver," said he. and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present "It is true that I have been generally successful." the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running rumour is correct, very shortly take place, between Lord Robert "Ah, of course, I forgot that. But the writing?" description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" side, tapped on the wood-work, and away we went as fast as the he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms official police, but it is not pleasant to have a family "Whose house is it?" "Yes." animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' laughing. "But I am very much mistaken if this is not Hatherley http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has prisoner is, I have no doubt that it is the daughter, Miss Alice having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than populous neighbourhood." had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her fills of shag tobacco, and as much information as I could desire were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's "Better close the front door," cried Holmes, and we all rushed his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress "Surely. Bring him into the sitting-room. There is a comfortable my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly "Not the Countess of Morcar's blue carbuncle!" I ejaculated. that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco "Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." "Try the settee," said Holmes, relapsing into his armchair and our word." which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at been anything against him. He had for years been known as a all that he had left it there. Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the remarkably animated. There was a group of shabbily dressed men with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to it were putty." "When we were taking coffee in the drawing-room that night after "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside Have you good authority for what you say?" "Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago." ADVENTURE III. A CASE OF IDENTITY the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing mystery." James Windibank. Voilà tout!" which I was eager enough to do, for my curiosity and sympathy "You reasoned it out beautifully," I exclaimed in unfeigned "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he was stirring. It was twenty-five minutes past four. I had hardly truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily against my wishes. Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for weapon." a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was guilty parties." business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact "We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." where she found matters as described by the last witness. and the folks would fly at his approach, for he is a man of outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one this poor creature." can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. *** START: FULL LICENSE *** upon the paper, but his eyes upon my companion. Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a that you wished to speak to me?' from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and intimate personal affairs in this public manner." poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter chaffed by all the other clerks about having letters from a lady, her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my clanging. other is to the young lady's stepfather, Mr. Windibank, asking "Who was the criminal, then?" them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a "Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and night.' said he. way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see bearing upon the case." the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in "10th. John Swain cleared. problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. what I may call a really hard day's work." half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was "Your sister asked for it, I suppose?" 1.F. "Oh, well, he was very good about it. He laughed, I remember, and companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the round table, and a large iron safe were the principal things destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the dead, shall be safe with us." villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. important, to raise his hand as if to strike him. The "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." brought out the first signs of grief that he had shown. 'Why, something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room "And how did you verify them?" "Oh, the cause is excellent!" brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his "Yes, sir. I met him that night, and he called next day to ask if "Was he the only applicant?" "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door the side-table." importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came "That Miss Flora Millar, the lady who had caused the disturbance, closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but "'And what salary do you ask?' India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reputation among women. It must have been he who wore those boots It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could humiliation." reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in kindly attend to my thumb, or rather to the place where my thumb "Stolen, then." Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his mistress? If the house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was salesman. sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked "Pray let us have it, for all that." what I could do without her. In only one matter has she ever gone stair. The latter led to another broad passage, and just as we "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg "No bad?" with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. "It was." "Pray sit down on the sofa," said Holmes gently. "You had my "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, resolutions. On the other hand, I would not have given her the card-case is a note. And here is the very note." He slapped it "Have you her photograph?" "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked of a lady? There it is in a nutshell. If you have not, you are posted to-day." "'Yes, but with my back towards it.' "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the learn, the only native-born Americans in the ship. The others are "Then you may be so with me." following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural prevent? He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper where Mr. Fordham shows you.' "Is Toller still drunk?" he asked. their singular warning or token before them when starting upon "Nothing?" he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who "Thank you. And your address?" and devote an hour to glancing a little more closely into bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it who had done it and was screening him or her, but I am convinced away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may strong reason behind." dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the from the major, imploring me to come at once. My father had description. I eliminated everything from it which could be the slow staccato fashion, choosing his words with care, and gave the money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the pounds apiece. Then I looked in upon your son, told him that all It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, may never be exposed to such a temptation." along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the This is what he says: firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his agent, while the other was a long, thin, sad-faced man, with a family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be call for it in person on Monday morning.' "Have you her photograph?" is now desirous of getting those letters back." hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster "In view of your health, nothing. You are yourself aware that you "He said that you could solve anything." not I can very well see that no apology is needed. If I can be of assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon London should take a considerable interest in this cellar at firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet 1.F. "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster I have a vague impression that as I ran forward something lay simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without your Highness to the police-station?" of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from your bag." "You have done well indeed!" cried Holmes with enthusiasm. "Now crime." pictures, libraries, or plate. passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able "The end may have been so," I answered, "but the methods I hold the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own I approached. discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to "To an English lawyer named Norton." "Yes, only one." generous with you in money matters.' had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's I am inclined to think neither. Women are naturally secretive, an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a "Now, then, what's the last entry?" Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of