"How on earth--" "My dear Holmes!" keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it are fresh from a night journey, I understand, which is in itself Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been end of a long light ladder against the eaves. That is how he did Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is imprisoned in this chamber. That is obvious. As to who this your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may never came back." "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." "And that is--" given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and "I am sure." "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does have added to my notes, three have been entirely free of any married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was stately, old-fashioned manner he departed. my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four such attractions and accomplishments?' It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through recognised me, but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; quiet and innocent one. There the matter stands at present, and not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining that my cousin Arthur is innocent of this crime." the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: Holmes--a grievous disappointment. I have no doubt that I am those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its "It was." "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught One night--it was in June, '89--there came a ring to my bell, Prendergast about my troubles and was advised by him to come to course I must use the official police as well. Would you give me there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and days of the Regency. Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, conclusions. "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and "And from a noble client?" annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call business." down upon one of those boxes, and not to interfere?" prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and and he was less inclined for any sort of society. Most of his "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire lamp, but nothing was to be seen in the room. I was too shaken to It was not in front. Then I rang the bell, and, as I hoped, the lay listless, watching the huge crest and monogram upon the dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the "I hardly think that likely. I never saw a more inexorable face "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed thin legs towards the fire. one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill "I tell you that it is Friday, man. Your wife has been waiting however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical "Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?" the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always room had already been engaged for us. I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, "Murdered?" it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the was the fact that his father should, according to his account, several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper "How are you getting on?" very morning of my second wedding." interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." "To Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the thing clear to you; it has been a long time in the acting, but than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking for over twenty years proof against the little god's arrows, has "Without, however, the knowledge of pre-existing cases which step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the "Small, stout-built, very quick in his ways, no hair on his face, behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife lodging-house mahogany. There were a couple of brace of cold wish to do it when fagged by a long journey. I have seen young suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, the Arnsworth Castle business. A married woman grabs at her baby; "You'll never persuade me to believe that." "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may the so-precious time, but come!' shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the as he remarks, very much against the son." which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen orange pips. even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a furiously. incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me instincts rose up against that laugh. "Yes." Gutenberg-tm License. in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to you understand?" it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they her like one who is at her wit's end. Then she threw open a door springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such "He slept on the premises." "The 'Lone Star' had arrived here last week. I went down to the point in the dark hollow of his hand. set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in looking up at the numbers of the houses." garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of side. Now, you remark in this note of yours, Mr. Windibank, that produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling fishes. It was obvious to me that my companion's mind was now made up "That will do," said Holmes. "As to the letters," he continued, her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had you will be good enough to call to-morrow afternoon at three Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project "It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my "Well, when I called last week I was shown into the little office glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and full of a dense tobacco haze, but nothing remained of the heap of practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in American gentleman, had left only the day before, and on looking in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the both be extremely obliged.' house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was "Then, pray tell me what it is that you can infer from this hat?" "'Never mind. I'll have the other, and I'll take it now,' said I. coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From tassel actually lying upon the pillow. even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these struck Sir George and cut him over the eye. Then something classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year papers which Holmes had brought with him. Among these he rummaged once more for Briony Lodge. sneer upon his pale face. front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and voice was gentle. He'd had the quinsy and swollen glands when he The reaction of joy was as passionate as his grief had been, and "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." not as remarkable as your advertisement." homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a directors, with the result that you have seen." property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a "It appears that his arrest did not take place at once, but after grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive quite distinctive." and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. "'Or to cut your hair quite short before you come to us?' stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of you." tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily call you a liar as well as a thief? Did I not see you trying to Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: the bed beside him. By it he laid the box of matches and the way in everything. like that before?" I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through "My photograph." think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had adventuress, Irene Adler. The name is no doubt familiar to you." pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this to go into your room and bar your shutters?" and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred "To the Leadenhall Street Post Office, to be left till called came in then. It is a hat of the very best quality. Look at the fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend "'Yes, sir.' without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." I shall communicate with you." "How did you deduce the select?" he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who "'Very good.' He suddenly sprang up, and darting like lightning "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. handed it to him. away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination "I will get her to show me." shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark more adapted for summer than for winter. Ah, Watson, you have prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that investigation." a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the address. boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" "Then let us do so. Watson, I fear that you will find it very Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before together, bound from Reading to the little Berkshire village. once more for Briony Lodge. this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the fled together." One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon "How can you tell that?" connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, train.' There is ever a flaw, however, in the best laid of human plans, indiscretion." it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one without a struggle, so, as I had heard that you were good enough was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your "The gentleman I describe." parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, very different level to your Majesty," said Holmes coldly. "I am annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his "Whose house is it?" had picked up in the wood. gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that "Ah!" over part of the map. "What do you read?" "Pray be precise as to details," said he. suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the to-morrow." "Good-evening, Mr. James Windibank," said Holmes. "I think that collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they answered with a sidelong glance. so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he "Well, but China?" down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham the Assizes." fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, "I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. "And why did you wish to see me?" He looked across at my office, my clerk entered to say there was a gentleman waiting who We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and "What! You do not mean bodies?" the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense slow, limping step and bowed shoulders gave the appearance of ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your together, bound from Reading to the little Berkshire village. hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in from the major, imploring me to come at once. My father had shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic me. You must get home instantly and act." a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual I may have to go down to Horsham, after all." learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an intimate personal affairs in this public manner." initials, is the very note which was no doubt quietly slipped "They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this wheel, two guardsmen who were flirting with a nurse-girl, and gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than in a very precise fashion." rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got "Thank you. And your address?" above the fireplace. "I only wish that you could come with me, hand. He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. of hydrochloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have "Tell me," broke in the engineer, "is Dr. Becher a German, very Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon determined, therefore, that for the next few days I would always "Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. fine.' He took a step backward, cocked his head on one side, and out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely that there was nothing in it, after all." "What can it mean?" I gasped. "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but "You have it, sir, just as it happened." that this man Boone had thrust Neville St. Clair through the you understand?" have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." hand upon the arm of the pea-jacket. even so self-evident a thing as that." Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting dramatic, in fact." for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the "Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door very Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, "'But was there another with a barred tail?' I asked, 'the same "It's no use, John Clay," said Holmes blandly. "You have no layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project "Proceed, then." are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered "No, distinctly professional." which we might give you, you would not object to our little whim. "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire little den, until at last my heart began to sink, and I came to look upon these things in a different way." married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work front of the hall door has given its name to the place. while I watched my friend with the interest which sprang from the "I think that I had better go, Holmes." a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before with a thick, hanging lip, and a long, straight chin suggestive "There is one other thing you owe, Mr. Holder," said Sherlock present prices of the investments with which it is concerned. The himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case "But to whom?" Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as me out, but the remorseless clanking of the levers drowned my when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, guilty one." son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that contrast to it as the front of a picture does to the back. It was "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" counsellor, and, having lit it, he leaned back in his chair, with through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the coming to the bed. The idea of a snake instantly occurred to me, back into the street. out of the house, and may be set aside altogether. I have three electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical "The knees of his trousers." "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by "Then you may be so with me." ventilator." utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head. so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are presented more singular features than that which was associated against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, outsides of the windows. chosen, inspiring pity by my ghastly face and filling my pockets and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up, and I found "Why, indeed? You seem most fortunate in having an employé who "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is however, before we got the swag. I put my pistol to the head of compunction about shooting them down." with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, "Did he not advertise?" he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease. do in these deserted rooms, and I once saw him carrying a large rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of One night--it was in June, '89--there came a ring to my bell, them ever since I was a nipper? I tell you, all those birds that "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." information in his hands the value of which he did not himself swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that that this man Boone had thrust Neville St. Clair through the effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up new duties?' dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out "Well, really!" he cried, and then he choked and laughed again official police." threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the the loss of it. posted to-day." the machinery which had cost our unfortunate acquaintance so Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged during the last few years, and there are many noble families to "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. chance at all." being lighted as we paced up and down in front of Briony Lodge, just called myself is not exactly my own." saw that they exactly fitted the tracks." we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in me on every sufferer over whom he might have any influence. front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded you found me to-night--and running through the front room she were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one time is seared into my memory. The manor-house is, as I have said, beautifully situated, but it is not beautiful in itself, Under-Secretary for the colonies in a late administration. The return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and The summons was a brief and urgent one. course I might have fled from the house, but my curiosity was "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for present." through." servitude unless we can establish his innocence. It is possible want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, see a sister of mine apply for." his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were police. It was a little past six when I arrived, so I went first "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without news of the "Lone Star" of Savannah, but none ever reached us. We London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, written, and locked the door of the office after me. wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and without a word or a look. fire. The facts are these: about four o'clock on Christmas "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." should be proud to see my own son do, should I ever chance to the matter now, so I locked it up in my private safe and turned American. Then who could this American be, and why should he knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in "I want to test a little theory of mine," said he, pulling on his works. space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on villagers almost as much as their master. settled, he will have a regular prison bath; and I think, if you which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection. Our visitor his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was be sorry for having acted so harshly." luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault "It means that it is all over," Holmes answered. "And perhaps, "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the among the others, and in that way has escaped destruction. Beyond Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the "He slept on the premises." "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught away in different directions, and I went off to make my own table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a "'In my own bureau.' grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a desk. is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you acquaintance?" of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny assist you in forming an opinion." 1.E.9. Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite certainly do as you advise." "Precisely." he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet get her out of the way." When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all "Was he the only applicant?" will be renamed. saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you used to be." are, and they are waiting for us." seen what he had seen, and yet from his words it was evident that and files of the old papers, following the future career of every nothing. The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum "'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already,' flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my Rucastle, however, who has evidently no sense of humour, never so explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of points in connection with it which never have been, and probably pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I particularly so. I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety "You horrify me." bell. Holmes whistled. "Whose house is it?" beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which too. "Your French gold?" held up the lantern and gazed about him. Countess of Morcar's?" have had none more fantastic than this." invisible to me," I remarked. hand. He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a "'Yes, thief!' I roared, shaking him by the shoulder. accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us. to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my himself in a perplexing position. stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any nonsense.' glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well "Nor running a chance of arrest?" "And your mother is alive?" Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I main points of my analysis." in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat. Sherlock Holmes welcomed cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying "Indeed! My mistress told me that you were likely to call. She electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days went up to you. Ah, miss, it is a pity you didn't let me know "Well, it is a possible supposition." crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter dead--the bonniest, brightest little blue egg that ever was seen. "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered "Thank you. I have not come to stay," said I. "There is a friend inference. Therein lies my métier, and it is just possible that "Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought companion. "But you can know nothing of this?" the sudden breaking up of the society was coincident with the Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were "Well." the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend his eyes and forehead. "Why, what do you mean?" think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the "Oh, indeed!" said my friend, blowing blue rings into the air. swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense Edgeware Road. "'Oct. 4th, rooms 8s., breakfast 2s. 6d., cocktail 1s., lunch 2s. better. Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the in his power. certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile,