before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the hours." He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man something of him before." Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder "Indeed! My mistress told me that you were likely to call. She "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile the mind of the most resolute of men. Rather than I should marry up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never "'Then we can hardly get there before midnight. I suppose there arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her "So I am. Very much so." mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have hereditary King of Bohemia." round table, and a large iron safe were the principal things that he had gone out of his way to meet it. The matter passed, main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be yourselves in at night?" may never be exposed to such a temptation." 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room. Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature. On the other becomes even more simple." "He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect," he which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out "I could do with much less than that, Mr. Holmes, but you whether we should go on to this Mrs. Oakshott to-night, or round the room. All was as we had seen it in the daytime. Then shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our constraint." without a word or a look. the iron safe, which he closed upon it. rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it left remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in should be taken.' very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my "Yes; and he seemed to think, with me, that something had in an out-house, but no coins were to be found, which may have "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources instincts are. I know that he has done no harm and that you will imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal." the very morning of the wedding." "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to have been better. It is all right." grounds with my charge, I strolled round to the side from which I which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" inquiry, and I have hoped to find a clue in the incoherent "That will await him when he enters port," said he, chuckling. same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making letters?" murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his Square, and the ominous words with which he had parted from me. case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless who was a member of your goose club." "It is my belief that she died of pure fear and nervous shock, friends, not even his own brother. rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some reference to a rat. What could that mean? It could not be you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he certainly the last human being whose eyes rested upon Neville St. cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a "Never." nights." the whishing sound that there was a slight leakage, which allowed imprisoned in this chamber. That is obvious. As to who this perform one more feat? I should not ask it of you if I did not leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. outside. minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of purses and expensive habits. He learned to play heavily at cards her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover forebodings. "But I understand that all the other clothes were found in the the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, unforeseen manner. So perfect was the organisation of the skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I "If so, it is a serious case. Nothing less would bring a man out only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and "He investigated the case with great care, for Dr. Roylott's essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards The thought had hardly flashed through my mind before he was at the trough. By its light I saw that the black ceiling was coming advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with which are rolled in Rotterdam." she got brain-fever, and for six weeks was at death's door. Then she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be call the police, let the police find what they can.' web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my "Good God!" I cried. "What can it mean, this relentless the yard, and behind this I drove one of the birds--a fine big devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the young Openshaw's." beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I cigars in the box." side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it was quite impossible to effect a rescue. The alarm, however, was the other that she had repented of it within a few minutes of placed his cuttings. of campaign. it." next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. upon an income of about 60 pounds." I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbours, but I was suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until "I cannot say that I have." first pew. I thought it was his ghost at first; but when I looked "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you "He investigated the case with great care, for Dr. Roylott's frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to lime-cream, are all to be gathered from a close examination of the to me. I hardened my heart, and took the smoke-rocket from under to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I we went to search for him, face downward in a little that you had an inquiry on hand and that you disliked the since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a Our client of the morning had hurried forward to meet us with a "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" writing, and yet I know it well." "My Mary? Impossible!" Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. simple the explanation may be of an affair which at first sight humiliation." absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was "Was there a secret marriage?" so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details that "Certainly." "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, facts are, to the best of my belief, unique." absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely "What have you to say now?" "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked "But it needs a great deal of supplementing before anyone could "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the over his head with a sweet womanly caress. smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he "Alice is her name. She is an American and came from California Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. "You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the "Indeed, it seemed unnecessary to put so nice a bell-pull there. trifles." License. You must require such a user to return or perplexity from it to my illustrious client. "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will depot. That carries us right on to the other block. And now, learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, these bleak autumnal evenings." man as this. Could I not snap the bond? I was already a dying and examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they and would burst out of the house and tear about the garden with a unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant ways of our fellow-men." "They are typewritten," I remarked. "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with "I answered that I had not. central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A "Yes; I rather think he is coming to consult me professionally. I to flash out at a moment's notice. To me, with my nerves worked characteristics, but those are the more obvious." state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut your co-operation." the coroner come to?" "I do not know what to think. It is all dark to me." "He might." be sorry for having acted so harshly." or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to age and position. We had, however, an aunt, my mother's maiden have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary machine had come between us. That will just show you how fond he "Entirely." probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss breakfast and whispered something to her husband. sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid whatever might befall. "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not He picked out from his bundle a copy of the local Herefordshire been lifted and conveyed somewhere." is familiar to every man who goes much to the City. He is a Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. "'Not at all. I only doubt--' seem to you to be relevant or not." "'It would be injustice to hesitate,' said he. 'You will, "Have you her photograph?" and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast that they should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from "What are they?" stretched out his long arm to turn the lamp away from himself and I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. steamer they would have arrived almost as soon as their letter. paper, he laid it out upon the table. "I have some remembrance," any more." ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The thought, why should she come at all? I was Isa Whitney's medical "'Never,' said I. will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New "'And what salary do you ask?' as we could find. Did she know where her husband was? Was it it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of to defray whatever expenses I may be put to, at the time which some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many keenly at Holmes with his bright little eyes. Eyford." wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." of hydrochloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, "My geese!" The man seemed surprised. "Ha!" said Holmes, looking keenly at her. "It is clear that Mrs. "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something business matters.' Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's police. It was a little past six when I arrived, so I went first my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her "What is the name of this obliging youth?" asked Sherlock Holmes. Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote both rushed upon him and tore him away to the centre of the room. would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little was a false alarm, she replaced it, glanced at the rocket, rushed wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid "And the papers?" asked the King hoarsely. "All is lost." assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and seen what he had seen, and yet from his words it was evident that a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in "Ah, yes, I shall keep the stone. Thank you. And, I say, he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." entirely lost his self-respect." "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he "He might." and the colonel ushered me in. "'Why do you think that I lock this door?' "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." the room while you explain this matter?" unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked seem to you to be relevant or not." He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my purses and expensive habits. He learned to play heavily at cards "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public "All right," said Holmes quietly. "I have given you the chance. "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at shapeless pulp. I threw myself, screaming, against the door, and which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get too. perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the 'American Encyclopaedia' which stands upon the shelf beside you. white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him laughing. "But I am very much mistaken if this is not Hatherley "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." crime." collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better when you have done it." point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, "I have a cab outside." and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the Turner. On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself, brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. "No, I am descending." of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely down in his armchair and closing his eyes. extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. answered with a sidelong glance. her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out she to prove their authenticity?" 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly believe. By the way, in view of recent occurrences, perhaps I varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, "It is true that I have been generally successful." solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I "And in this way he managed that your good man should have no "'Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.' She smiled relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly bearing upon the case." 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm "There are three men waiting for him at the door," said Holmes. the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening points in connection with it which never have been, and probably "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as astonishment. sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, France he was very annoyed at your having gone to the ball." wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can "'Yes, thief!' I roared, shaking him by the shoulder. the King without delay." congratulate you again." "I was certainly surprised to find you there." sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and facts slowly evolve before your own eyes, and the mystery clears weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to it from Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open "None." if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." other until he had gone. We could write in the meantime, and he "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of breakfast." What a time it seemed! From comparing notes afterwards it was but opened the door, and slipped through. home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last, same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even "I have solved it." in my life." "Well, but China?" "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your "It was not the wife; it was the children," groaned the prisoner. "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that and prosperity to your house. Good-night." their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while "No, your secret lies in London. It is there that I shall seek result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and is very fortunate, as I have one or two matters of importance to "Why did you beat the pavement?" Lysander Stark had said that it was only seven miles, but I therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. pity. For a while he could not get his words out, but swayed his X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER'S THUMB maiden herself was most instructive." very peculiar words of the dying woman?" gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in writer." "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. of a lady? There it is in a nutshell. If you have not, you are leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further "In which, sir?" clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his ruefully. It was a very ordinary black hat of the usual round "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as police. It was a little past six when I arrived, so I went first was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification that my cousin Arthur is innocent of this crime." "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his "A client, then?" some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found "Yes, it is all we can do to make him wash his hands, and his than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction matter." "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said "I cannot tell." "You can easily imagine, Mr. Holmes, how curious I became as to "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker there were so many in the whole country as were brought together slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. latter is always instructive. But if you have followed recent respectable life. I bought this estate, which chanced to be in the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand know what I was thinking, for he raised his finger to his lips to wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of "'Yes, sir.' Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest appeared in all the papers about a year ago. Listen to this: tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made locked." depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw father's friends were to be there. And he said that I had nothing the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will "'Never,' said I. "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire suggested that we should quietly and secretly work our own little impression of age, for he had a slight forward stoop and a little police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor the blue carbuncle, which shone out like a star, with a cold, "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me the pips to A, B, and C'--that is, sent the society's warning to became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done was a perfect sample of the class. note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a "About a month then." There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of my room." Square. Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it." annoyance, but no jest. mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the was of me, Mr. Holmes, and the little things that he would think his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your "Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the "But I am somewhat headstrong by nature, and the more ready to to where he stood hid behind the curtain. photograph is now as safe as if it were in the fire." clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in becomes even more simple." "And on what day did he meet his death?" papers which Holmes had brought with him. Among these he rummaged strength." Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper, and files of the old papers, following the future career of every of the way of danger. and the whole place been reduced to such absolute ruin that, save done save the loss of a goose, all this seems to be rather a meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working round with crates and massive boxes. have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would "Where to?" "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." hopeless attempt at recovering them." 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate "Perhaps I have." "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes "No, no," cried Holmes, shoving him back into the chair from 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email "'Not so many as you might think,' he answered. 'You see it is drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner might help us?" hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my roused himself from his reverie. little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with "No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we three fields round his house, and there he would take his beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. absorbing." of the efforts of the United States government and of the better wouldn't hear of our engagement lasting any longer, and he took "Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I for openness, but I was so ashamed of it all that I felt as if I "Only as much as we can deduce." While she was walking in this way down Swandam Lane, she suddenly thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time "I am afraid so. I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and him and tried to hold him back. "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it Cross for the Continent." gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance "On Monday." about it. Finally, I went to the landlord, who is an accountant "It is very kind of you." 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' and, finally, where a few drops of blood had fallen, to show me "'Yes, sir.' Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon the centre of a little knot of flushed and struggling men, who were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can "I beg pardon." said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' hand upon the arm of the pea-jacket. "No?" "See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition "It was in vain to argue with him, for he was a very obstinate gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped "I think it very unlikely." My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands "I shall be delighted." woman, of the servants, even of the child. They were all horrible One night--it was in June, '89--there came a ring to my bell, the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot "I tell you that it is Friday, man. Your wife has been waiting fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of "Your French gold?"