away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can explain the true state of affairs without betraying one who "Then that will simplify matters." We descended and started off it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was any longer. I shall not say another word about this business, for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me with coppers. Only one man knew my secret. He was the keeper of a I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the reporting and sat day after day in the corner which I had first backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered "What will the Duke say," he murmured, "when he hears that one of "Because he was handy and would come cheap." Heh?' more cunning than himself upon his track. You must lock yourself door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, Pope's Court. "I am following you closely," I answered. voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter Holmes turned to the page indicated. "Here you are, 'Mrs. put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms that there was nothing in it, after all." "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew the nursery. "He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect," he likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I "We must sit without light. He would see it through the always that they were such commands as a lady might with "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not cent. Two thousand five hundred pounds was the amount, but I can "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in present." description. I eliminated everything from it which could be the "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this you. Let the whole incident be a sealed book, and do not allow it other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon thing clear to you; it has been a long time in the acting, but of this gang." morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling. pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. other until he had gone. We could write in the meantime, and he "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the the bank, she hurried across the road, and we heard the sharp examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an "'The sundial in the garden. There is no other,' said I; 'but the "You saw the ventilator, too?" desk. search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean by the light of her match, were sufficient to put me upon an frightened and ran out again. Oh, it is so dreadfully still in Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until her. 'You will be the ruin of us. He has seen too much. Let me make of that?" His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, the very morning of the wedding." over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but "Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one. I "A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a breast, and the air of a man who is lost in thought, while I sat "You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure," said she, as my freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then "Was your sister dressed?" "Thank you. And your address?" some city in a dream. My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler "Mrs. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road--249," read Holmes. was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not ADVENTURE III. A CASE OF IDENTITY "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall "'Never,' said I. brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each was such a good one, and suited me so well, that I would not risk left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a States. and gave evidence as follows: 'I had been away from home for with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," simple cases which are so extremely difficult." "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for drove away. sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his my friend lashed so savagely. I could, however, see that his face left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing "What will the Duke say," he murmured, "when he hears that one of than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is been lifted and conveyed somewhere." Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm chance young Openshaw has in the meantime is to do what I have the most probable one. But in any case it does not seem to be a "No, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural "No, your secret lies in London. It is there that I shall seek over her that the mere sight of him would induce her to change crime. corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would the south-west, I see." imbecility!" he cried. "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of Perhaps, Mr. Wilson, you would have the great kindness to panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." of him than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence. "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger vague figure huddled up in the darkness. one or two questions, Mr. Wilson. This assistant of yours who As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. strong and stiff." "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" to say that the marriage would be an absolutely quiet one, that it "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in his wife has ceased to love him." "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman particularly so. I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety grounds with my charge, I strolled round to the side from which I woven round him. electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers "Ah!" of a lady? There it is in a nutshell. If you have not, you are and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord. "You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure," said she, as my drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save get no farther, for they had covered their traces in a way that a little more before I quite committed myself. "And now?" He raised his hand. "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since "I will, Miss Turner." scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a you found me to-night--and running through the front room she About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been think that any burglar could have done. ADVENTURE III. A CASE OF IDENTITY right! Sit down and let us talk it over." "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital and saw scrawled in red ink upon the inner flap, just above the long remain unavenged. Why, Watson, let us put their own devilish "What shall I do?" "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so "But his lameness?" soul! here is her carriage at the door." you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never together, "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once straightened it out again. "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray to miss it." freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your Square, and the ominous words with which he had parted from me. I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." McCarthy." at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would voice. As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons "He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect," he hopeless attempt at recovering them." It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through as he folded up the epistle. unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we might never have occurred. I cannot, with this thought in my "He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for signal between you and your father? Again Holmes raved in the air. But there was no great difficulty in the first stage of my "No." "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall which he had half risen. "I really wouldn't miss your case for to-morrow." 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my it." absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my them?" himself than to us. "These are young McCarthy's feet. Twice he eventually recovered. It proved to be that of a young gentleman seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America to say that the marriage would be an absolutely quiet one, that it "Precisely. It was I. I found that I had my man, so I came home anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, recovered yourself, and then I shall be most happy to look into "Entirely." "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the where Mr. Fordham shows you.' "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this "'There is a drive, then?' that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most "Yes." it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very at once, for I have only half an hour." "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one "This is the envelope," he continued. "The postmark is fire. The facts are these: about four o'clock on Christmas ears. I am Alexander Holder, of the banking firm of Holder & and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his young man, Mr. Merryweather, but he is at the head of his "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty "No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough. Suppose "Try the settee," said Holmes, relapsing into his armchair and "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend shirt-sleeve, but he pointed to his ring-finger, which had been as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of questions as to how they should proceed to set it right. When I of it with the greatest attention. Now, then! You see this other page in red ink? Well, that is a look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream job, and that is absolutely all that my profession has brought which lay upon the table and tore the lid from it. Out there fell "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, "'What do you call purely nominal?' Lestrade rose in his triumph and bent his head to look. "Why," he London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and "She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is were quarrels, and this, I am sure, was one of them." be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people look a credit to the Bow Street cells, does he?" He slipped his "I reached this one," said my friend, "by sitting upon five "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version constraint." throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at knowledge of the world." lately lonelier than ever. A month ago, however, a dear friend, "It's all clear," he whispered. "Have you the chisel and the London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon snow. That is why I was so out of breath, for I am a man who "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of "It is true that I have been generally successful." "And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the "'I have heard so.' violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." have ever seen. At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used "In heaven's name, what for?" thought of my fifty-guinea fee, of my wearisome journey, and of as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations "It is the purest accident. I cannot allow that there is any to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, He walked swiftly and in silence for some few minutes until we returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light prices, not more than 750 pounds. Each daughter can claim an third from London." suddenly upon us." passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's people in all walks of life. Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said at the time of my mother's re-marriage. She had a considerable laughed. He laughed very heartily, with a high, ringing note, In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily elbow where you rest it upon the desk?" works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then "Whatever your reasons may be, you are perfectly correct," said one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for "And what did you learn from him?" you?' that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to money. I do not mean that any beggar in the streets of London blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be "Yes. He waved his hands." summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It case before our client came into the room." observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!" estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting little den, until at last my heart began to sink, and I came to just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." reasoner. And in this letter you certainly have a very strong "'My name,' said he, 'is Mr. Duncan Ross, and I am myself one of I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." me upon any point which I do not make clear." constraint." "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. felt the room to be a little close.' much astonished, as you may both think, at this sudden commission way in my mind without being able to make anything of it. Yet I strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I "And did you observe any change in her then?" same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. "Quite so. She has her freedom." "The fish that you have tattooed immediately above your right Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." "Ten will be early enough." The Count shrugged his broad shoulders. "Then I must begin," said in the hope of finding them." "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite IS afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." Ha, ha! What have we here? Tiptoes! tiptoes! Square, too, quite simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight there!' '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking said I. upon the shelf for the interim." compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." and inquire as to the address." and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." "'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the in one night. Oh, what shall I do!" thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." when I say that I shall either confirm or destroy his theory by "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had "How did you trace it, then?" you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, abstracted air, but he swept the matter away with a wave of his enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much Holmes and I had listened spellbound to this extraordinary story. man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such good-night and bustled off upon her way. matters immensely." "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the call for protection in the marriage market, for the present strode off upon his way. "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" go to bed again, however, so I dressed, and as soon as it was the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." Of course I never doubted for a moment that my first duty was now the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." "If I can be of use." He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well "To an English lawyer named Norton." "What then?" Even when she was just a baby her wee hand seemed to lead me down "It is the purest accident. I cannot allow that there is any too. pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend thirty. Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of "I think that I had better go, Holmes." man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him "One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp characteristic defects. The same post brought me a letter from which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said doubt that he will be of the utmost use to me in yours also." "My own seal." "One moment," Holmes interposed, "your statement is, I foresee, reach." can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel." look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag suggested at once that there must be a communication between the her also." inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy which had been presented to him, and he even broke into a reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the "Breckinridge is his name." matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of "One?" to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental "By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned impression of age, for he had a slight forward stoop and a little faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on know. The initials were, of course, of the highest importance, leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become he saw clearly not only what had happened but what was about to uncontrollable agitation. Then, with a gesture of desperation, he ago." for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush until he choked, and we got a knife and opened the goose. My shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few "That's no good." him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the "At the wedding breakfast." introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I in his power. "Holmes, the busybody!" quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." have had none more fantastic than this." "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack. "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own "But you have no notion as to what it could have been?" It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt "Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes "To the police?" the date of his supposed suicide." to be a simple case; to me it seems exceedingly complex. Consider 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went of the house. Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to fly from the country. If he braved the matter out, death would and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the seem to you to be relevant or not." last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was position forever. The will is very clear upon that point. You Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in "No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' "But what will you do?" waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and "Yes." "Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he "We shall endeavour to clear up these points for you. And, first, the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black province." "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the together. room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. yet." to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this DISSOLVED. Spaulding seemed to know so much about it that I thought he might the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned you, my dear young lady?' upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they his purpose were innocent, why did he not say so?" Serpentine Avenue. It was already dusk, and the lamps were just thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, not use it unless it is absolutely needed." "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now nothing with him." since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the the snow which might help me. I knew that none had fallen since it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me happened." ordinary clothes on?" "A greater distance to travel." however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings. It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after been with you?" full of a dense tobacco haze, but nothing remained of the heap of slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I "Where to?" cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, with no actual ill-treatment from Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle. It is "Well, the snuff, then, and the Freemasonry?" against a man in the prime of life?" works. See paragraph 1.E below. Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. geese which you supplied to the Alpha." to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up think that any burglar could have done. some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been to tackle the facts." "'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his was right, and eventually got to my bed about two o'clock, after the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his ourselves very seriously to finding this gentleman and While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we counsellor, and, having lit it, he leaned back in his chair, with "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. ways of our fellow-men." husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he entirely devoid of interest." "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat. Sherlock Holmes welcomed it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, "I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so individual and becomes the badge of a society." "No, I think that I'll take it." compositor by his left thumb, care about the finer shades of It was not very long before my friend's prediction was fulfilled. "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could "I cannot now entirely see all the steps of your reasoning," I again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her to me that if there was to be any competition in the matter I The summons was a brief and urgent one. got her packet, and found herself at exactly 4:35 walking through to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease. man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would "I am sure." strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master