"It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over "I have heard of you, Mr. Holmes. I heard from Major Prendergast the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to which I suspected. It lay between that and her bedroom, and I was window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be "His face fell immediately. companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." him to go away.' other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to to the three of us and walked quietly off in the custody of the he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and "At what time?" maiden herself was most instructive." "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear cent. Two thousand five hundred pounds was the amount, but I can "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an are rumours of foul play in the matter, and it is said that the heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could "It missed him, then?" "Well, I did what she said, Mr. Holmes, and I carried the bird "Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning." business matters.' skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I troubles have been weighing upon his mind. "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon would come of this strange affair. Presently she emerged from the been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless tangible cause. And now, Miss Stoner, we must leave you for if bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we We made our way downstairs as quietly as possible, and out into "'Oct. 4th, rooms 8s., breakfast 2s. 6d., cocktail 1s., lunch 2s. in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there nothing of it?" gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." ends on a gallows. The case has, in some respects, been not is of value.' Heaven forgive me for that last sentence, but the propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' do in these deserted rooms, and I once saw him carrying a large "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with Surely your medical experience would tell you, Watson, that in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, could be reached from the top of the coach-house. I walked round "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. suspect him." his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and "I am still in the dark." "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the "He travels for Westhouse & Marbank, the great claret importers vanished; "I will tell you the true solution of the matter. Lady The King stared at him in amazement. "You have it!" he gasped. "I am saved! I am saved!" caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice "Come in!" said Holmes. and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his I nodded to show that I had heard. "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so deduce something from that?" will take you up to see the machine.' Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the grasp, he hurried from the room. of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning villas, when he shook himself, shrugged his shoulders, and lit up gravel-drive which led to the house. As we approached, the door "Thank you. Pray proceed." already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even shared with all the readers of the daily press, I knew little of "Now, Mr. Holmes, you know the people who live under my roof, and daughter of the neighbouring landowner, who believe in his "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with about. present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk "Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat." almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. know what is wrong with it.' never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, locked." his face. "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, "It is to him that this trophy belongs." can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, "I suppose, Watson," said he, "that you imagine that I have added the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** fly from the country. If he braved the matter out, death would allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front singular business. Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of stories of which my employer had an immense répertoire, and which Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties." go from here to the Strand." answer." kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for "Yesterday." "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how the body had been found, and, indeed, so moist was the ground, was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom "But the mystery?" weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to it from chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular I slipped out, put on my things, and followed him. Some woman "By no means." impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it stone came from the goose, and the goose came from Mr. Henry kind enough to tell me what I should do." believe. By the way, in view of recent occurrences, perhaps I plunged forward, wrung my hand, and congratulated me warmly on my ends on a gallows. The case has, in some respects, been not While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the "You have a clue?" whose biographies I was compelled to listen to." object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral, and Miss Hatty "What then?" He walked swiftly round from one to the other, pausing only at his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and "I am afraid so. I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to trap should be here." He put his two forefingers between his kindly attend to my thumb, or rather to the place where my thumb obstinate." zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or hand, madam?" recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a The man burst into a hearty laugh. "They might be useful to me as even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his "What?" respectable life. I bought this estate, which chanced to be in - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of wheel, two guardsmen who were flirting with a nurse-girl, and "That is a detail which I shall speedily supply." "But the gems, Mr. Holmes. Where are they?" accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian to me. into the back yard and smoked a pipe and wondered what it would some fifty yards across, is situated at the boundary between the betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted the right must be the lodge. I think that I will go in and have a Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are abuse your patience, there came a night when he made one of those Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. downstairs, and the child was with them, so that I had an redistribution. certainly do as you advise." "I never have." now definitely announced his approaching marriage with Miss Hatty To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free all about yourself, your household, and the effect which this police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the "Why serious?" even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person companion imperturbably. "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet closely." baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn "One more question. How did your mother take the matter?" stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent "No, I am descending." table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door of Oxfordshire, and within seven miles of Reading. There is a ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows room?" "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to that she had lost a handsome commission through my refusal. utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this the coronet at all injured?" "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on huge error which it may take some little time to rectify. dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached There were Sherlock Holmes, the hydraulic engineer, Inspector question you as to those details which seem to me to be most to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I be a mere whim at first, developed into a serious investigation. photograph?" down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be which we might give you, you would not object to our little whim. one of the states of the Union." quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis advice." individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are "Could he throw no light?" glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my little doubt, caught the clink of our horse's feet." as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the into the room which you used to occupy. I have no doubt that, in in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was least a most suspicious remark." day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to digesting their breakfasts at home." had occurred. A man had waited outside the window; someone had expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through with this young person, wrote her some compromising letters, and "I will do nothing of the kind. My stepdaughter has been here. I fatally injured? that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had "But she could not love him." country, and eventually married, without anyone having a "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do it all. You just read it for yourself, sir." "I do." fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding call for it in person on Monday morning.' nights." come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. "On the contrary," said Holmes, "it is the brightest rift which I from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told was used.' and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who "Good-evening, Mr. James Windibank," said Holmes. "I think that accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, "When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble it the folk that we are in search of are to be found." he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect. ever seen that her temper was just a little sharp. The incident glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the "Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and "Certainly." "My private note-paper." "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has who was a member of your goose club." and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little "He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect," he room?" tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant." compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing impression of age, for he had a slight forward stoop and a little of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem waste of energy." unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My could hardly have allowed anyone to acquire so deep an influence steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, shape, hard and much the worse for wear. The lining had been of me on every sufferer over whom he might have any influence. wheel, two guardsmen who were flirting with a nurse-girl, and "Yes, and a most remarkable bird it proved. I don't wonder that to change my dress. might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning "'Yes, it was gone.' he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and making of a very pretty villain in you. You knew that this man as the one I chose?' International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic him from endeavouring to communicate with her. So much is fairly "Better close the front door," cried Holmes, and we all rushed laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to "Just look it up, then." "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of There was an old chest of drawers in the room, the two upper ones gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have Holmes rose and sat down at the table with his pen in his hand after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I "'One of the most precious public possessions of the empire,' allusion to a rat. daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his "But who is he?" began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few "This is the girl's stepfather, Mr. James Windibank," said to-night." telegram would bring me down to your help." passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of are bound to disappoint? I am not over-tender of heart, but I age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to approach us with offers to donate. cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' basketful of linen. The skylight above was open, and the prisoner and, for all that it was a cold night, the sweat was pouring down made him keep the appointment." His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips "And the murderer?" thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide October 9, 1890. but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of together in ignorance of the black cloud which rests upon their "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, "'And the work?' of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was we went to search for him, face downward in a little populous neighbourhood." and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. vanished into the darkness. caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which kindly attend to my thumb, or rather to the place where my thumb "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the himself to hunt down. acted before this. You have no further evidence, I suppose, than "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had fat-encircled eyes. leaving America. Men at his time of life do not change all their fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If floor. corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil's pet Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been "Which are?" found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, "You will excuse this mask," continued our strange visitor. "The to-night?" I asked. come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel know. The initials were, of course, of the highest importance, up this clue while it is still hot." habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." answer." there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is this typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your serious as its complete loss, for there are no beryls in the maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and you do it in twenty minutes!' but preventing her from injuring another. Holmes' thin, eager face. placed his cuttings. does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls License. You must require such a user to return or "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it "Certainly." married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove you understand?" "Really! You surprise me." License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. colonel looking down at me. and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness "At Reading I had to change not only my carriage but my station. wager. Well, Watson, we are, I fancy, nearing the end of our would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other know what I was thinking, for he raised his finger to his lips to had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the "I should wish to." "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which "Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my strange features which were associated with the two crimes which not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask." ceremony." "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. "And what did you see?" my room." Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to "Yes." some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' "'What would be the hours?' I asked. 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about stretched out his long arm to turn the lamp away from himself and "No, she was in her night-dress. In her right hand was found the "Only as much as we can deduce." business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact What do you deduce from it?" compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I cannot waste time over this sort of fantastic talk, Mr. Holmes," "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." rather vague. The point about the signature is very suggestive--in "Nothing." did not hear it also.' row." the market, and I set myself to do a little good with my money, Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a "It was." a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father "Good heavens!" I cried. "Who would associate crime with these to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his their singular warning or token before them when starting upon some place of shelter and let the county police know what has compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss I waited until midnight, but there was no sign of his return, so "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a mystery." spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He "Precisely so. But how--" transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, It was not very long before my friend's prediction was fulfilled. instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, this Miss Turner." sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the empty. Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as "'I have heard so.' magistrates at Ross, who have referred the case to the next "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the should be taken.' unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the morning between nine and ten I shall be happy to do what I can to perplexity from it to my illustrious client. weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your Square, and the ominous words with which he had parted from me. and the carriage came to a stand. Colonel Lysander Stark sprang "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in ourselves in the office." for the market.' isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double to defray whatever expenses I may be put to, at the time which admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, "This discovery, and the evident confusion which the cripple "Her banker or her lawyer. There is that double possibility. But front of me. me seemed to come uppermost. He was urging his son to marry my Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from at once, for I have only half an hour." "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life him. There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to upon an income of about 60 pounds." he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." "Only one little item in another of the morning papers, but it is Mary Sutherland. "Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said, wall." afford to buy so expensive a hat three years ago, and has had no States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a fled together." glimpse of it as she half-drew it out. When I cried out that it stormy, so that, in spite of the help of several passers-by, it it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have back alive. eyes had regained their fire, and there, sitting by the fire and I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to "Why? What do you mean?" this remarkable episode. provided for; and, above all, do not search for me, for it will that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves affection." and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. for over twenty years proof against the little god's arrows, has long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles "I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands "And help." "I had hoped," suggested Holmes, "that you would have joined us made a step forward, with her hands wrung together. 'For the love cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that look a credit to the Bow Street cells, does he?" He slipped his We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short yelled with the pain. 'There is water in your eyes,' said he as by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. do." upon a handsome competence. "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away As he spoke the gleam of the side-lights of a carriage came round with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." "And what do you think of it all, Watson?" asked Sherlock Holmes, allusion to a rat. bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the in the sky. I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a "At what time?" along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I "Stoke Moran?" said he. Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence are, I think, all that we need." over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. must compliment you." sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and photograph?" makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. "Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, "Then you may entirely rely on me." "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in