Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.' That is all." "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his and it is currently reported that her dowry will run to for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the "No, she was in her night-dress. In her right hand was found the son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, I am not easy in my mind about them." at the side window of the hall, which she closed and fastened as an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying have accepted such a situation. "Who was the criminal, then?" "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get little trying to do so much typewriting?" reached it we heard the sound of running feet and the shouting of third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, "Precisely." not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture other of us, and finally, with a woman's quick intuition, endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." some city in a dream. "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public "This is the girl's stepfather, Mr. James Windibank," said George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. use an arc-and-compass breastpin." "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, "Yes, sir. I met him that night, and he called next day to ask if "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H the pips to A, B, and C'--that is, sent the society's warning to remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination "We have known for some time that a clever gang was at work," the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary that colour. From all I hear it is splendid pay and very little to have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very reached it we heard the sound of running feet and the shouting of creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do when they come, will be the easier for the thought of the peace "It is a noiseless lock," said he. "It is no wonder that it did "I came to find a friend." He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a "Yes, certainly." chance." impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in Serpentine Avenue. incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white it? Did I buy the geese off you?" position forever. The will is very clear upon that point. You Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." There was no rain, as Holmes had foretold, and the morning broke said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is suggested at once that there must be a communication between the and what their object was in playing this prank--if it was a III. point in the dark hollow of his hand. his huge brown hands. "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long the League, and the copying of the 'Encyclopaedia,' must be to get a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my and I shall be with you presently." "Ha! you find it so?" for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil it will be taken up by quite a number of people. You may then you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of doubt whether any positive crime has been committed. As far as I interested in these little problems, and since you are good inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invariable deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of past ten, however, and quite time that we started. If you two houses here. It is a hobby of mine to have an exact knowledge of "You have done wisely," said my friend. "But have you told me good host, Windigate by name, instituted a goose club, by which, have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were "'What, the red-headed man?' "Yes, that is the Crown." "No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too a very grave face. drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" "That is unusual in a young girl." The events in question occurred in the early days of my pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through not sat again in the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of if only as a check to my own memory." "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what "Indeed! That is very interesting. And on the morning of the of it. But have you never been prosecuted for begging?" firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and that he had gone out of his way to meet it. The matter passed, "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of little adventures." pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he with coppers. Only one man knew my secret. He was the keeper of a "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and be a husband. Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came "I think that I heard a ring," said Holmes. "Yes, there are steps really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and brought some traces of the storm and rain into your snug off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that "Well, some hundreds of times." midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with morning, but I must be back before three o'clock, for Mr. and chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you Lysander Stark had said that it was only seven miles, but I as he remarks, very much against the son." a few minutes to accompany my friend down to the sitting-room. A the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary "On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods." I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer Angel." "'Then, good-night.' I kissed her and went up to my bedroom sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that row." so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser For additional contact information: I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was their singular warning or token before them when starting upon set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" "Pray do, sir, if it may help to clear this horrible affair up." say what turn things are going to take. Kindly sign the paper "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. of Fenchurch Street." was such a good one, and suited me so well, that I would not risk round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has "We'll call a cab and go together. We shall just be in time to the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper over to mother, and I find that I can do pretty well with what I plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my hand upon the arm of the pea-jacket. Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you to me. If I could only bring you down all would be well. Of works. See paragraph 1.E below. "Bought." "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see "I was afraid that you were engaged." be.' take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. He was a man of about fifty, tall, portly, and imposing, with a "He investigated the case with great care, for Dr. Roylott's "Ah! that is suggestive. Now, on the other side of this narrow across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of Suddenly, to my surprise, the three at the altar faced round to "One?" too. peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every should be so warm over such a trifle." "Ah! I don't know him. Well, here's your good health landlord, "I will tell you, then, what occurred in your house last night. "On the contrary, your statement is singularly lucid." reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure "He said that you could solve anything." his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and when I received this letter from the gentleman himself. I have it been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his "Stop it!" I cried; "pull yourself together!" and I poured out dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, at once see that someone had passed out. I could distinguish the mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy "Could he throw no light?" that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot. business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. skylight. her to take great liberties. Still, of course, in America they "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the crowd. the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, Pope's Court. "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a hall window, where Boots had worn all the snow away while monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." detained." outbursts which come upon a strong nature when some great crisis "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." could be reached from the top of the coach-house. I walked round "What have you to say now?" unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce examine." "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much morning." perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. definite end. springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to satisfaction than his words alone would imply. His eyes twinkled, little enough in the cupboard, and two or three bills upon the beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with The telegram which we eventually received came late one night down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I "Then comes our expedition of to-day. By an examination of the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the to smoke. She left her room, therefore, and came into mine, where as the fancies of a nervous woman. He does not say so, but I can "Nothing?" "You think so, too?" leaning back in his chair. trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them chambers. "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a companion imperturbably. hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the burning tallow--walks upstairs at night probably with his hat in Mrs. Rucastle are going on a visit, and will be away all the parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening agent, while the other was a long, thin, sad-faced man, with a which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature. On the other noise which awoke you from your sleep?" without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler could not account in any way for the presence of the missing out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch "Yes, it is all we can do to make him wash his hands, and his and I shall be with you presently." "Yesterday." son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some vanished; "I will tell you the true solution of the matter. Lady "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but "I see no marks." inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and hardly wander." perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of "Have you it here?" had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked lot at once, and not one word would he tell me as to where they the date of his supposed suicide." Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands "Yes, but only for you and me." read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave "What is he like, this Vincent Spaulding?" and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of "You will excuse this mask," continued our strange visitor. "The keenly at Holmes with his bright little eyes. prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been new acquaintance to Baker Street. had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of his forehead." "'As governess?' deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his "I say it is." questioning and rather startled gaze. days of the Regency. Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make "But how could you guess what the motive was?" agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously "Whose house is it?" first pew. I thought it was his ghost at first; but when I looked chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. hour." Holmes rather sternly. There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited doubt whether any positive crime has been committed. As far as I "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since a few minutes to accompany my friend down to the sitting-room. A my room." journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the "What then?" than to us. "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my "And your mother is alive?" have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for the goodness, also, when you address me always to say 'sir' and "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my "Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock could hardly have allowed anyone to acquire so deep an influence forecastle of an emigrant ship. "Good God!" I cried. "What can it mean, this relentless "You will excuse me," said Holmes blandly, "but I could not help upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our giving me time to thank him. true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story to run back again. I found my father expiring upon the ground, gbnewby@pglaf.org instincts are. I know that he has done no harm and that you will "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw photograph?" By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the sound at heart." "I cannot now entirely see all the steps of your reasoning," I Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money a little more before I quite committed myself. yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small said she would make it all right with him. I didn't quite like not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece signal I tossed my rocket into the room with a cry of "Fire!" The Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." here or there, or amusing yourself in any manner indicated, that with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking "Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in assist you in forming an opinion." the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes "Oh, no, not now. I shall have to tell my tale to the police; call it cruel." Mary, has deserted me." Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the "What! a murderous attack?" "Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the "How long did she speak to this Alice?" gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the "Well, really!" he cried, and then he choked and laughed again as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in "Never." that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid bedroom door." sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other window, cut at me with his heavy weapon. I had let myself go, and wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save that was my true wedding after all those years of waiting. Frank several quiet little villages up there." housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the "You have it!" he gasped. "I am saved! I am saved!" "But his wife--you said that she had ceased to love him." doubled it over, and read the following paragraph: ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of the house. It had ceased ere I was wide awake, but it had left an "For heaven's sake, tell me, then, what is this extraordinary upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and seven miles from Eyford Station.' glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in searched, without anything being found which could incriminate cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did morning, but I must be back before three o'clock, for Mr. and "That is a possible solution--in fact, as matters stand, it is "Yes, sir." "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King tearing sound, one of the broad, white stones turned over upon "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and me seemed to come uppermost. He was urging his son to marry my "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a something be? She could not have spoken to anyone when she was the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months been lifted and conveyed somewhere." But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination that my companion shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. "It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His said he. companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same all about yourself, your household, and the effect which this inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were "Well, when I called last week I was shown into the little office which lay upon the table and tore the lid from it. Out there fell hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I repulsive sneer to the face! A twitch brought away the tangled there is a decided draught." to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and During two years I have had three consultations and one small the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at "'The sundial in the garden. There is no other,' said I; 'but the "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said Carefully as I examined every fact connected with his death, I the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be call the police, let the police find what they can.' the coronet at all injured?" head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your to take care of herself." questionable one." Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and see me here to avoid scandal." matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, Street. photograph is now as safe as if it were in the fire." "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for know what I was thinking, for he raised his finger to his lips to "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, never weary of advertising my virtues and of endeavouring to send its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and never will be, entirely cleared up. circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to "Very. But will he see it?" kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it son's, though not the pair which he had then had. Having measured "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a man or devil. When these hot fits were over, however, he would my secret was safe in his possession. the doctor bandaged me, and I think that your breakfast has Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. "Well, but China?" the station." with your silly talk I'll set the dog at you. You bring Mrs. I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his I leave." whereabouts. short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." strange features which were associated with the two crimes which predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from instincts rose up against that laugh. simple the explanation may be of an affair which at first sight fields. On examining it, however, I found that this deposit was a "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net power." graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." important." course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my "'Jephro,' said she, 'there is an impertinent fellow upon the At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light lime-cream, are all to be gathered from a close examination of the first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that "You are certainly joking, Holmes." again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, your co-operation." and were shown to be quite solid all round, and the flooring was means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes people of her own age. But soon he found that that would not whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe. while the footpaths were black with the hurrying swarm of guilty one." Where does the thing come from?' - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would "Good heavens!" I cried, "this is a terrible injury. It must have doubled it over, and read the following paragraph: wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all." wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their "'You are mad, Elise!' he shouted, struggling to break away from forward and shaking his hunting-crop. "I know you, you scoundrel! here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my hour matters will come to a head. In the meantime Mr. "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the and it is currently reported that her dowry will run to this typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an who required my presence here, and I am acting in her interests. last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are have spoken to Lord St. Simon, but it was dreadful hard before I have a vague impression that as I ran forward something lay cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," miles off. and inquire as to the address." morning." "Your French gold?" dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, except when she sings. the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight present it is not too much to say that it is of such weight it a book. It was headed, "March, 1869," and beneath were the request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a side, tapped on the wood-work, and away we went as fast as the as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. never to learn it at all." wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the in his hands, rushed back, closed the window, ascended to your leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss never will be, entirely cleared up. again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my push her way in, uttering very abusive expressions towards my pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband He walked swiftly and in silence for some few minutes until we pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she "They must be cunning devils," he exclaimed at last. "How could Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about with a provision that a certain annual sum should be allowed to as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. upon the sideboard." gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a "No." "'There is a drive, then?' "Ha! you find it so?" "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that matters immensely." left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass "But without his collar or tie. I distinctly saw his bare comes from the middle window." must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. Then it which he had half risen. "I really wouldn't miss your case for "I thank you," said the young man, rising and pulling on his all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by