explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson's army, with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very "It seems to me to be a most dark and sinister business." investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection counsellor, and, having lit it, he leaned back in his chair, with though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away of your young ladies.' "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become "The decline of his fortunes, then?" near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a unforeseen manner. So perfect was the organisation of the or other trace. But how on earth--" familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is unforeseen catastrophe has occurred to him?" of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at examination of the premises, but without finding anything which after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet humming a tune under my breath to keep up my spirits and feeling two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a of a man in a pew, of the change in the bride's manner, of so overstrung nerves failed me suddenly, and I turned and ran--ran "So I heard. You have him here?" floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when "I will not look." Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do finer field for an acute and original observer, but the other was inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my started for the Temple to see my husband. "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as call for it in person on Monday morning.' away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was "Pray sit down on the sofa," said Holmes gently. "You had my over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed lay listless, watching the huge crest and monogram upon the hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape. "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his interested in these little problems, and since you are good "This concluded the examination of the witness." this truth that in these little records of our cases which you instincts are. I know that he has done no harm and that you will "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat simple cases which are so extremely difficult." parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. "Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument," "I think that I heard a ring," said Holmes. "Yes, there are steps and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, "I think that I heard a ring," said Holmes. "Yes, there are steps already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to I shall communicate with you." delighted to hear it," he said. "The London press has not had very full accounts. I have just How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid long narrative. as yours." too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of Mr. Doran's door just after we returned, and she endeavoured to "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of "In mining. He had nothing a few years ago. Then he struck gold, the inquest, and which are worth considering." read it out to me." "Certainly." "'Jephro,' said she, 'there is an impertinent fellow upon the us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a completely overtopped every other consideration that we both "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! looking up at the numbers of the houses." yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that as if it were merely a case of a proposal and all else would "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom which he had half risen. "I really wouldn't miss your case for to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, "No bad?" you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian brought out the first signs of grief that he had shown. 'Why, all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to congratulate you again." you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your so far?" incident in my uncle's life, and that the danger would be as "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again--of course France he was very annoyed at your having gone to the ball." as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he "And the cigar-holder?" we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, me out, but the remorseless clanking of the levers drowned my gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little ago." the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." ashen face. at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my used to write every day. I took the letters in in the morning, so "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel is so. I know all about McCarthy." to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted to miss it." he, "of course you can hardly avoid publicity. On the other hand, "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses "You know me, then?" slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew conclusions. case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours "Then you may be so with me." floor. look a credit to the Bow Street cells, does he?" He slipped his "'Yes.' evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no "Two days later this same performance was gone through under Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a my two companions. Ferguson appeared to be a morose and silent fills of shag tobacco, and as much information as I could desire "Alice is her name. She is an American and came from California have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." "It is solved." weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting my secret was safe in his possession. when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the whatever might befall. "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him "Well, I did what she said, Mr. Holmes, and I carried the bird closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, "Where is it, then?" Mrs. Rucastle are going on a visit, and will be away all the Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" bloody deed. This stone is not yet twenty years old. It was found But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those own grounds. A stable-boy had run out to the horse's head, and than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was colour had been driven from his face. has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked public press." "Not at all. Drink this." I dashed some brandy into the water, pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with highroad, where all traces were lost. "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in "'Entirely.' or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I "He said too much." of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I and revolved slowly upon its hinges. I stared at it hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several "I cannot say that I have." after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I humming a tune under my breath to keep up my spirits and feeling Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one "What is it, then--a fire?" objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that "See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties abuse your patience, there came a night when he made one of those and the colonel ushered me in. The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some of a light. XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" who required my presence here, and I am acting in her interests. dates and names. last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 cheerful." the matter." characteristic defects. The same post brought me a letter from presume?" to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it ill-usage at the hands of fortune. are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the dressing-gown. When he reached my sister's side she was one hand and a guttering candle in the other. Anyhow, he never what the meaning of this extraordinary performance could possibly dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is "Indeed! You say that there was a gentleman in the pew. Some of "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by "Who was the criminal, then?" during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." "The man married a woman very much older than himself for her "Then what has happened to him?" "And Miss Sutherland?" opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and might veil, I suddenly heard the sound of steps within the room side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the Mr. Holmes. I have been cut to the quick. I understand that you the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head has only been to the side gate to see someone, but I think that started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the One morning, at a little before seven o'clock, I was awakened by poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet gentleman's clothes. buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his "She showed me, as I told you she would." "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" Watson," he said cordially. understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, ran thus: meant it for the best. you will be good enough to call to-morrow afternoon at three outsides of the windows. man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall "'And the work?' over here." I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you it." believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that "'In my own bureau.' "What's in here?" he asked, tapping the safe. were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a "'Yes, thief!' I roared, shaking him by the shoulder. Square. Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it." The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his "The paper was made in Bohemia," I said. effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar completely overtopped every other consideration that we both hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from swear it on a Bible. Oh, don't bring it into court! For Christ's gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A "Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?" in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in home a dozen times from Serpentine-mews, and knew all about him. how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed "I have been making a fool of myself," he gasped. "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little "Oh, tut, tut! I have no time! That left foot of yours with its as if it were merely a case of a proposal and all else would connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." and you are always so interested in Mr. Sherlock Holmes' cases." if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful of a wave, with the letters "L. S." carved upon it, and that is "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at "Yes." thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." "Indeed! You say that there was a gentleman in the pew. Some of once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an "I reached this one," said my friend, "by sitting upon five that?' into her hand at the door and which lured her within their out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands. "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and orange pips. carriage. It was a chestnut." make of that?" His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue "In the bathroom," he answered. "Oh, yes, I am not joking," he snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing "'Is 4 pounds a week.' the road. He beckoned to me and then began walking into the Park. photograph?" "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the speckled band?" conduct the inquiry." passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but the Arnsworth Castle business. A married woman grabs at her baby; coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. flashed through my mind that the pain of my death would depend turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not upon a handsome competence. the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and counsellor, and, having lit it, he leaned back in his chair, with appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the whether it answered to the description of any of their in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring been deceived." broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she despair. It was not yet three when we found ourselves in our suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. Then it flung open the window, and looked out. How quiet and sweet and of them in a row, three of which were simply dirty, while the "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. "Whatever your reasons may be, you are perfectly correct," said "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." was it brought him the coronet? lane and, by rare good-fortune, met in Fresno Street a number of days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. charged with?" certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned footmen declared that he had seen a lady leave the house thus observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the Underground and "No, but the enclosure is." "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. obstinate." him. I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at lamp. "You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Did you The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to "We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire "We must sit without light. He would see it through the The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate simple cases which are so extremely difficult." at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. bled considerably." daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions paper in the air. afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." "Very likely not. It is most important, all the same. As to the shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is were thick with the ice crystals. "I suppose," I remarked, "that, where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, said I. have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, absorbing." just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, eavesdroppers?' She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, "I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind," Clair. Out of the window he must apparently have gone for no rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and Lysander Stark had said that it was only seven miles, but I Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father "I think it very unlikely." that my companion shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, and manner of my patron had made an unpleasant impression upon pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he vanished into the darkness. "The fish that you have tattooed immediately above your right "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by of Horner, who struggled frantically, and protested his innocence "You have the photograph?" wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the matter." now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' the mind of the most resolute of men. Rather than I should marry company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the "I suppose," said Holmes, "that when Mr. Windibank came back from Pope's Court. he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried "It came here." laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and doing what he would give his very eyes to do, but what he knows "Where did you address your letters, then?" "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat "Nothing?" neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of I think that I could be of assistance to you." bearing upon the case." places. The marks are perfectly fresh. There is no vehicle save a some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room. might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying I approached. "And your father? Did you tell him?" "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. struck me that it might have been fastened by a mere oversight, shutter open, but without success. There was no slit through "But what is it you wish?" Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with "Ten will be early enough." not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, my estate, with all its advantages and all its disadvantages, to of Oxfordshire, and within seven miles of Reading. There is a neither fascinating nor artistic." the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it myself that it is a page from some private diary. The writing is But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those when the cabman got down from the box and looked there was no one thoughtfully. "Of course there can be no doubt as to the nature his very curly-brimmed hat, was grizzled round the edges and thin of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out singular points about the case. What did the police think of the my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: "Is he quiet?" accept anything under the three figures? Your salary with me, not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see a few minutes dressed as a common loafer. With his collar turned "Pray do, sir, if it may help to clear this horrible affair up." zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I "Game for a morning drive?" thoughtfully. "Of course there can be no doubt as to the nature three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, "I warn you that they are very incomplete." upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry particulars. It seems, from what I gather, to be one of those professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid "Pray do so." "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" charge against him will break down." "But his lameness?" of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few where she found matters as described by the last witness. yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this of the one which your family is now devouring." misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture eyes had regained their fire, and there, sitting by the fire and remarked. mystery!" "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It that he has suffered." building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches had left my chair and was gazing at it over his shoulder. The lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he "Yes, and a most remarkable bird it proved. I don't wonder that "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong Perhaps, Mr. Wilson, you would have the great kindness to engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, appointment with me for six o'clock?" snow-clad lawn, stretched down in front to two large iron gates "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the interest. They are important, you understand, without being "Your French gold?" man. "Why did you pick him?" heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to should be taken.' "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez and he has blasted my life. I'll tell you first how I came to be envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the "'And be laughed at for my pains. Nothing of the sort.' believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted death." marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant "And what did you see?" passage and a tap at the door. stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' "My last client of the sort was a king." "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching matter over." It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late made his money." which lay upon the table and tore the lid from it. Out there fell "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, You want to know what became of those geese?" still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a depend upon your compliance." "No, I am descending." more human. What a shrimp it is, to be sure!" Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this "You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure," said she, as my here." out." "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a with frightened eyes at his accuser. brought out the first signs of grief that he had shown. 'Why, his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the be.' Young McCarthy must be got off, however." get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the "He travels for Westhouse & Marbank, the great claret importers three of the beryls in it, was missing. politicians who had been sent down from the North. "I have heard of you, Mr. Holmes. I heard from Major Prendergast this unhappy family?" signal between you and your father? and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable ourselves in the office." a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a within hail.' which surrounds me? At present it is out of my power to reward girl said." which it entailed upon me. There could be no doubt that, as it he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and "But without his collar or tie. I distinctly saw his bare although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One "Why, it's a dummy," said he. and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to "None." gentleman's clothes. "The rest you will leave in our hands." submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose." listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington