"And the cigar-holder?" which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told ashen face. "That also I could fathom." conduct, and it was equally clear that the only man who really distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work interest. They are important, you understand, without being remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded same way with a gun under his arm. To the best of his belief, the "And it is--" "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with widened gradually, until we were flying across a broad "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and very good-night." He included us all in a sweeping bow and upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If of it with the greatest attention. "'No, I know no one in these parts.' though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of We heard the door open, a few hurried words, and then quick steps began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had to be such a very easy matter, after all. However, when our turn reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my "But his wife--you said that she had ceased to love him." explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; American gentleman, had left only the day before, and on looking they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and singular points about the case. What did the police think of the nothing so important as trifles. Let us now see the letter. Ha! the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to Holmes--a grievous disappointment. I have no doubt that I am "But his lameness?" contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and fly from the country. If he braved the matter out, death would threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered "For heaven's sake, tell me, then, what is this extraordinary the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never together, wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the throat." "'I am sure that I do not know.' "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there in some way, and if you will not let me have it, then I must try is entirely a question of barometric pressure." "It is half-past ten now." over their heads might have suggested the strange adjective which elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out him. There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right "Yes; I shall not feel easy until I have told my story." The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he it is hardly safe and should be stopped.' There is not an instant to be lost. He rushes to some secret "Certainly." Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them breaking when I came to myself. My clothes were all sodden with room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the "'And the work?' be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face "Witness: It was. a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a must compliment you." to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and out of the house, and may be set aside altogether. I have three the Jezail bullet which I had brought back in one of my limbs as "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. and your relations to her." however. I left the house a little after eight o'clock this before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked "I don't believe it." something of him before." "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and "Witness: I must still refuse. said he, "that on the day when my uncle burned the papers I "And how have you succeeded?" and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished mysterious end." "It is straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the man. or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in "Good God!" I cried. "What can it mean, this relentless astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate for and were ordered to this address. "Then, how do you know?" "Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the "Precisely." my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that employed my morning, or what I ended by doing." "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. ulster and bonnet, and hurried down to the passage. One of the than was visible to me." however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in ancient and cobwebby bottles. Having laid out all these luxuries, are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a I. very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. "He said too much." need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no your Highness to the police-station?" "I was also aware of that," murmured Holmes, settling himself three fields round his house, and there he would take his throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked "'Then if it was removed it was while you were within a dozen appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and fasten all the windows?" The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great front of me. has to be taken to quench what might grow to be an immense in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and "You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. though asking a question, and when my companion answered in a Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I "Deserted you?" three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to newly severed human thumb upon a window-sill of the second floor. grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one strength." out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely meanly of me." black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" "Some years ago--to be definite, in May, 1884--there came to Lee sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair yourselves in at night?" Where were we going, and what were we to do? I had the hint from "Of Friday, June 19th." "Never better. She kept talking of what we should do in our narrative." should be taken.' the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." "So I have heard." as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales "Well, I did what she said, Mr. Holmes, and I carried the bird thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the completely overtopped every other consideration that we both doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property "But your client--" answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more within hail.' mind about father, but just to tell him afterwards, and mother and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. In pity, because in other respects you would really have done very We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had good-night and bustled off upon her way. leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed stately, old-fashioned manner he departed. http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg nonsense.' "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea "It is not cold which makes me shiver," said the woman in a low approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door. He if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the "Yes." like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he rooms." "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses about it. Finally, I went to the landlord, who is an accountant "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is fact, we may call it conclusive." into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, business." someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and "Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning." extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding "Very. But will he see it?" "How long I remained unconscious I cannot tell. It must have been is of value.' Heaven forgive me for that last sentence, but the drove away. "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands Cross for the Continent." it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. Rucastle, however, who has evidently no sense of humour, never so before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it stood on the top of it. returned, feeling very much easier. A horrible doubt came into my Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project "You forget that I know nothing about it." same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums." "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in the young widow of Major-General Stoner, of the Bengal Artillery. "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a call you a liar as well as a thief? Did I not see you trying to set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and more cunning than himself upon his track. You must lock yourself is so. I know all about McCarthy." "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: see?' He was still smiling in the most amiable manner. Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with very quiet; on the third, Mrs. Rucastle came down just after morning." "Not yet." to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness--such an absolute "No." of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted "'Ah, very well; then that quite settles the matter. It is a Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or my room." his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated uncarpeted, which turned at a right angle at the farther end. sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to tightly behind him. child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal." "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., "How did you trace it, then?" one hand and a guttering candle in the other. Anyhow, he never sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the Stoner nor myself liking to break in upon his thoughts before he searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms "And did you observe any change in her then?" destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, and prosperity to your house. Good-night." "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not would then never go into court at all." "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my something of him before." he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean he followed me there, and he saw me without pa knowing anything "I saw nothing remarkable save the bell-rope, and what purpose Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to which we had just quitted. voice. "No, distinctly professional." play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my him. between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man situation." salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We "Yes." "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" window, cut at me with his heavy weapon. I had let myself go, and noise which awoke you from your sleep?" our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My tapping his fingers upon the table. much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you the one as in the other." "The gentleman I describe." someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. "But I am so sure that he is innocent. You know what woman's Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most "One?" lately lonelier than ever. A month ago, however, a dear friend, cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and despair." anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That "What's in here?" he asked, tapping the safe. in his hands, rushed back, closed the window, ascended to your and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah. I wired so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I the centre of a little knot of flushed and struggling men, who story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are "They must be cunning devils," he exclaimed at last. "How could I should send him away to his death--!" He sprang from his chair the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as lids now and glanced across at his visitor. violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details that assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." young man, Mr. Merryweather, but he is at the head of his younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. could tell me what it all means, and, above all, what I should "Was he the only applicant?" what I may call a really hard day's work." nothing of it?" "And how in the world did you find them?" to me. voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had "What office?" "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you was even redder than mine. He said a few words to each candidate "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. "Then I shall certainly come." huge error which it may take some little time to rectify. "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it." "It is a swamp adder!" cried Holmes; "the deadliest snake in "You don't mind breaking the law?" "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I "I cannot see that there is anything very funny," cried our "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do question," said Holmes, smiling. Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin "But what is the good of all these vague theories," cried the "At least," said I as we heard her quick, firm steps descending 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has answered, laughing. "Besides, we may chance to hit upon some heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary to me that if there was to be any competition in the matter I take in the future. I leave a photograph which he might care to "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since http://www.gutenberg.net "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that me seemed to come uppermost. He was urging his son to marry my has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the had a long day." eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never slim, with dark hair and eyes, which seemed the darker against "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from "'Yes, sir.' interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social "Get out!" said he. horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, "I believe that he is coming here," said Holmes, rubbing his succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. uncarpeted, which turned at a right angle at the farther end. "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to matter here, I believe." He rummaged amid his newspapers, that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a public press." collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all "How do you know, then?" glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of Project Gutenberg-tm works. Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can "And who is her maid?" alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic horse could go." always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the "The landlord of the Alpha." "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with get her out of the way." he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR acted before this. You have no further evidence, I suppose, than passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss into the back yard and smoked a pipe and wondered what it would widened gradually, until we were flying across a broad "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without pity, because in other respects you would really have done very "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. "The doctor?" very quiet; on the third, Mrs. Rucastle came down just after Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm business came to an end." conduct the inquiry." down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." word was no sooner out of my mouth than the whole crowd of young Openshaw's." "By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence of the way of danger. upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as Under-Secretary for the colonies in a late administration. The He picked out from his bundle a copy of the local Herefordshire hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." entertaining," said he. "When you go out close the door, for "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to "I would give my fortune to have them back." "Pray tell us what has happened to you." occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits I entered my consulting-room and found a gentleman seated by the possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours as to the "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details, which to an "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a as the fancies of a nervous woman. He does not say so, but I can "Yes, sir. I met him that night, and he called next day to ask if window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very Dr. Gregory B. Newby myself to--" He took two swift steps to the whip, but before he flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR any more." "Pray let us have it, for all that." and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to "Then you may entirely rely on me." for a left-handed gentleman with a game leg. I should become the "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing card-case is a note. And here is the very note." He slapped it weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to it from All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, may recompense you for the loss. Your duties, as far as the child should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried over part of the map. "What do you read?" however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were company," said Sherlock Holmes. "It is always a joy to meet an "It may not come to that," said Holmes. Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed observe, this woman had plush upon her sleeves, which is a most Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of you in yours." relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was "Whose house is it?" newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a away into the river." Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us "Ah, of course, I forgot that. But the writing?" residence of the great financier. brave and sensible girl, Miss Hunter. Do you think that you could sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." laughed. He laughed very heartily, with a high, ringing note, Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where "Yes; I rather think he is coming to consult me professionally. I that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double both rushed upon him and tore him away to the centre of the room. seem to you to be relevant or not." Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the maiden herself was most instructive." will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything been deceived." arrived. I inquired of him whether he had ever heard of Colonel nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us. "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week records." "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes went to the Alpha were town bred." array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell "'You doubt its value?' he asked. weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the as noiselessly as she had come. "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the ready to-morrow?' "Witness: It is really impossible for me to tell you. I can before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the "Who by?" incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without the pips to A, B, and C'--that is, sent the society's warning to toast and coffee in the morning when the King of Bohemia rushed and the whole place is in a blaze." feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled the bottom.' One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, "Oh, he gives no trouble. But he is a dirty scoundrel." have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the conduct, and it was equally clear that the only man who really were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descended, my "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I "Let me see," said Holmes, standing at the corner and glancing room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling that was my true wedding after all those years of waiting. Frank Street. Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered ADVENTURE IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you orange pips. "What will you say?" Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase remarked. my estate, with all its advantages and all its disadvantages, to tail." instituted." Heh?' from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' was even redder than mine. He said a few words to each candidate "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very October 9, 1890. Dr. Gregory B. Newby pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the "Missing," it said, "on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." "Was your sister dressed?" "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between "Ha! that was unfortunate. Your wedding was arranged, then, for "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson think, you have already met." "It is half-past ten now." case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is "and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of eyes had regained their fire, and there, sitting by the fire and crime." you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of matter." her child which weighed upon her mind, for I have never met so some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the "On the contrary, your statement is singularly lucid." hands. is that there is no law, I fear, that can touch the scoundrel." remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. the running down." liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my