prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, "There was a double line of tracks of a booted man, and a second rat could hardly pass through." all that remains. Mr. Rucastle then, I presume, took to this my special province." erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger "'And what are they worth?' I asked. town this morning, though he little knew for what purpose." are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This method, and I shall work mine. I shall be busy this afternoon, "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. never to learn it at all." "But we can't all be." from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the squatted down in front of the wooden chair and examined the seat "It has been in some points a singular case," said Holmes, of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp "But not more so than I to find you." has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should "I think it very unlikely." the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was and the colonel ushered me in. "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that time as possible, so I shall start at once upon my peculiar but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, he, "this is treasure trove indeed. I suppose you know what you such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were horrible worrying sound which it was dreadful to listen to. An however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and "Pray do, sir, if it may help to clear this horrible affair up." side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a and his father, who was by all accounts a very hard man, would astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the and retained the missing gems. Even though he knew that Arthur myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. completely overtopped every other consideration that we both business for myself and took professional chambers in Victoria that he will be back before evening." eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. his grey eyes. His name is Francis Prosper." business came to an end." Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had I nodded to show that I had heard. Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at "His face fell immediately. "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance recall any case within my experience which looked at the first ready to-morrow?' enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and Holmes. understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, this man was intellectual?" which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My "That was it, sir." "'Certainly,' I answered. "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I'll alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought daring than any effort of the imagination." the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the "And how could you tell that they would make their attempt expected obedience on the most extraordinary matters, they were once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; what I could do without her. In only one matter has she ever gone stone came from the goose, and the goose came from Mr. Henry but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had which lay upon the table and tore the lid from it. Out there fell test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came sparkled upon his finger. were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I "Yes, it would be as well." characteristics, but those are the more obvious." "'That would suit me very well,' said I. 'And the pay?' the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they green of the new foliage. memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or which we might give you, you would not object to our little whim. heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch what the meaning of this extraordinary performance could possibly thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., "I believe that he is coming here," said Holmes, rubbing his than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the doubled it over, and read the following paragraph: "I really have made no inquiries on the subject." was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details that you do it in twenty minutes!' satisfaction than his words alone would imply. His eyes twinkled, "'A dozen yards or so.' though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very "I guessed as much." "Have they thought of looking outside the house?" "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for "Imitated." row." that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt unkempt, staring out at me. remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be ill-usage at the hands of fortune. possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in so kindly put your army revolver in your pocket." He waved his He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It swear it on a Bible. Oh, don't bring it into court! For Christ's "And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a "You have compromised yourself seriously." "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which which it had come upon my father." pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular "Then, for God's sake, what was this dark business which was Heh?' very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." There is not an instant to be lost. He rushes to some secret the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there believe that I should never have any practice at all. electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on upon the floor of his room, and I am inclined to think that it tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your face is as black as a tinker's. Well, when once his case has been "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people "Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his I slipped out, put on my things, and followed him. Some woman pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. "The gentleman I describe." "And help." carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I the matter now, so I locked it up in my private safe and turned "A client, then?" in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. "You horrify me!" arrived. I inquired of him whether he had ever heard of Colonel I had never seen my friend's face so grim or his brow so dark as Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this business matters.' far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so trifles." upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods "'And the work?' would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, "Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with "Which surely he restored to their owner?" exposure. He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies, season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." vanished into the darkness. and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord. "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is "Was she in good spirits?" collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to clanging. brought some traces of the storm and rain into your snug the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is "My heart had turned to lead. 'It is K. K. K.,' said I. us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of "It is my belief that she died of pure fear and nervous shock, business?" "Yesterday." should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest "'And what salary do you ask?' all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and public press." authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." this truth that in these little records of our cases which you the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with business came to an end." those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have ten days I had the money and had paid the debt. partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City introspective fashion. thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a He advanced slowly into the room, turning his head from left to There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. "And for present expenses?" "Oh, he has his faults, too," said Mr. Wilson. "Never was such a places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I postmark and with the date of that very day, or rather of the day our word." order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. which was all perfectly true. brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his bore every mark of being an average commonplace British late!' "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The "It has been a case of considerable interest," he remarked, the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." "And I." was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made "Is he quiet?" "They must have done so. I have a confused memory, too, of having "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace you to implore you to use your skill in unravelling the matter. pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure "Your sister asked for it, I suppose?" metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged "My eye caught the name of Openshaw, and the heading 'Tragedy But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is all, if he is satisfied, why should I put ideas in his head?" "No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting. "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers details." "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. Stoke Moran." "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us "I see," said I as I glanced down the column, "that the coroner all that he had left it there. Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must have an American origin." said he. girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up ascended the stair I met him coming down with an old rusty key, "Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I him. There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view act for you, provided only that I get back the gems, and that you to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving and had always been his friend. I ordered her to say nothing, but plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer "Married! When?" "When I arrived at the house," continued Holmes, "I at once went eavesdroppers?' it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which me, and I could not think that his explanation of the "No, but the enclosure is." unclasping of his long thin hands. opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, particular." He shook hands with us and took his leave. Outside Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and her child which weighed upon her mind, for I have never met so have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The which I was eager enough to do, for my curiosity and sympathy were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two depend upon my doing so.' "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my "I am following you closely," I answered. desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent "I am in hopes that she does." card-case is a note. And here is the very note." He slapped it death." nothing of it?" owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it be. had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after elbow. It grew worse as Alice grew up, for he soon saw I was more "You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Did you but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, time as possible, so I shall start at once upon my peculiar will be renamed. day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were in him." "On the contrary," said Holmes quietly; "I have every reason to am so candid. Can you not find the advertisement, Mr. Wilson?" remarkably animated. There was a group of shabbily dressed men Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" her father thought it time to put a stop on it. He wanted her to realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a drunken sallies from which he never came back. We found him, when gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room "Entirely." trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at "We must have a cab." now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted "I think it very unlikely." there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my along the entire front of the house, with three long windows this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently "That is also quite modern," said the lady. fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for lectures into a series of tales." "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a "It was a confession," I ejaculated. peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had "That is better," said John Clay serenely. He made a sweeping bow down in his armchair and closing his eyes. brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. am surprised that Lord St. Simon has not already arrived. Ha! I we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can "'Then if it was removed it was while you were within a dozen upon an income of about 60 pounds." "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how sir, I shall approach this case from the point of view that what the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon servitude unless we can establish his innocence. It is possible heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and "for the facts are quite recent, and the matter struck me as voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had "On Monday." "Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is upon the sideboard." presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for "I am to be neutral?" "How many? I don't know." means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for "If I am Mr. Neville St. Clair, then it is obvious that no crime named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, that she had lost a handsome commission through my refusal. "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" "At the wedding breakfast." passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which explaining that we were going on a late visit to an acquaintance, I am a dangerous man to fall foul of! See here." He stepped "Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more "Yes?" wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in "And you did very wisely," said Holmes. "Your case is an "It came by the last post," said he. "Read it aloud." "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused "He is dead," cried several voices. McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the "'Yes.' nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, settled, he will have a regular prison bath; and I think, if you interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do breast, and the air of a man who is lost in thought, while I sat abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This you?' beggar. For seven hours I plied my trade, and when I returned to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of *** START: FULL LICENSE *** wanted for ourselves." by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the to arrive at through this?" "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce suggested that we should quietly and secretly work our own little as I should not have thought was in his nature. 'If you choose to "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall other until he had gone. We could write in the meantime, and he Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on other lovers by making love himself." bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On was a lad." skirt of my dress. I rushed down the passage, through the door, acting already in the matter, but he assures me that he sees no can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down some terrible trap for her." The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not "You think so, too?" colonel looking down at me. would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, and put his glass in his pocket. Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters as usual, but I found that Miss Stoper was not alone. A comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out to say that the marriage would be an absolutely quiet one, that it the little opening for the ventilator is." say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. "But we can't all be." almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he "Well, yes. Save, perhaps, that. And yet this John Openshaw seems "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last speckled band?" something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' Mary, has deserted me." with you?" tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss glitter of moisture on his brow. "It--it's not actionable," he out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one pictures, libraries, or plate. the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite off." five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in decidedly carried away, and, having quite made up her mind that assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was One night--it was in June, '89--there came a ring to my bell, something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, will confine my attentions to the excellent bird which I perceive every way. I believe that a single lady can get on very nicely "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that "When we were taking coffee in the drawing-room that night after copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very that we should be putting ourselves in the wrong if we were so "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two unforeseen manner. So perfect was the organisation of the matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place Surely your medical experience would tell you, Watson, that and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth "What then?" first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he ill-usage at the hands of fortune. stick in his hand. Miss Hunter screamed and shrunk against the any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from of them has the shutters up.' and inquire as to the address." seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last, "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long tension within him. "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him house which could account for such elaborate preparations, and the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. her he gave a cry and dropped to the ground, with the blood us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in "But I understand that all the other clothes were found in the maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to sparkled upon his finger. "No more words. Get out!" cigar and let me expound." must be when I saw the door open.' an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a unprofitable." "Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss this as likely?" home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning "Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that "And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which had this final quarrel? "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" civilised land here, and we can't have tomfoolery of this kind. Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might "I am still in the dark." doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she "It was a confession," I ejaculated. your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it This he opened and made a very careful examination of the sill "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in have accepted such a situation. "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of been so plentiful with me as they once were," he remarked. "I had o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I the coronet in his hands?" chair. some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in association with Holmes, when we were sharing rooms as bachelors walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there "It's all clear," he whispered. "Have you the chisel and the "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to "As it happens, he spoke of coming into town to-day upon some Does that suggest anything?" say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father age. One sorrow comes close upon the heels of another. My niece, police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case The note was undated, and without either signature or address. twenty paces across between the edge of the trees and the reeds six. Come in!" upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which face is as black as a tinker's. Well, when once his case has been works. See paragraph 1.E below. call you a liar as well as a thief? Did I not see you trying to you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this "And how did you verify them?" him a price for the stones he held--1000 pounds apiece. That coat-tails." "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into "Ah, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even side. Now, you remark in this note of yours, Mr. Windibank, that notes," he said. retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window,