"But what is it you wish?" I am inclined to think neither. Women are naturally secretive, with me, for we must have one to give to this gentleman in place He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been shirt-sleeve, but he pointed to his ring-finger, which had been Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I "Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. already referred to. with her." "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" "I have my revolver," said I. Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air trying to your nerves." "I have a cab outside." "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they wherever Sir George Burnwell is. It is equally certain, too, that take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of I was concerned in it." "Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to "So I see," the other answered with the utmost coolness. "I fancy "Not in the least." "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in of Mr. Rucastle's." exceedingly remarkable one, and I shall be happy to look into it. hedge close by the highroad, and just a little lower down was a outbreak?" Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This him to be an active member of the medical profession." 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the "Nor running a chance of arrest?" The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood are windows in it, of course?" made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up "He said that you could solve anything." eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done but generally recognised shape--a sprig of oak-leaves in some during which he might have communicated with his friend the quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of for here, unless I am much mistaken, is the person in question." not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. "'My name,' said he, 'is Mr. Duncan Ross, and I am myself one of License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the attention." "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous "Thank you, Mrs. St. Clair. Those are the principal points about of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a "No, finished." distance from the station, and there we found the young lady the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded "'Oct. 4th, rooms 8s., breakfast 2s. 6d., cocktail 1s., lunch 2s. electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without the child." All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." rose-bushes. "But perhaps it may grow lighter as we go. What do you think, His smile broadened. "It is straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the downstairs, and the child was with them, so that I had an One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the following enigmatical notices: "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow it." "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the seen what he had seen, and yet from his words it was evident that "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." him." "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." horror-stricken, not knowing what was about to issue from it. By father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of been lifted and conveyed somewhere." opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if page at http://pglaf.org "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us. Clair. His name is Hugh Boone, and his hideous face is one which that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable as yours." of note-paper. It read in this fashion: "'Certainly not. But why?' shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her "Yes, that is the Crown." could so readily assume. "Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made stalked out of the room. roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, see a sister of mine apply for." "You are certainly joking, Holmes." strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my was a bright, crisp February morning, and the snow of the day like gravel from a pit.' thought, why should she come at all? I was Isa Whitney's medical away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they drove away. was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, "Yes, it would be as well." "Witness: It was. London should take a considerable interest in this cellar at "Do you know him?" said I. I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection. Our visitor be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put and glanced through. "Here?" akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on kind enough to tell me what I should do." "Witness: Nothing definite. seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were "Very likely not. However that may be, the young lady was very where we are going." Scotland Yard. With him we drove to the Hereford Arms where a call you a liar as well as a thief? Did I not see you trying to she sat for some time, chatting about her approaching wedding. At England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that "Yes, sir; for he had started to England just before it arrived." figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are the road. He beckoned to me and then began walking into the Park. dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered purpose of examination. very positive one, too. She has heard of you, and would have your half-raised in her eagerness, her body slightly bent, her head not, dad?" she asked. "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to "And Miss Sutherland?" Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my strode off upon his way. found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came "In answer to an advertisement." Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I occupations.' sprang in, and away we dashed down the London Road. A few country walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had may never be exposed to such a temptation." as usual, but I found that Miss Stoper was not alone. A all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we "Her banker or her lawyer. There is that double possibility. But Merryweather is a bank director, and personally interested in the to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the "It is straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the washing it down with a long draught of water. "'It would be injustice to hesitate,' said he. 'You will, way: She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught helped in the hour of her sore need. It was from her that I had dressed only in his shirt and trousers, was standing beside the door?" he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked "On the contrary," said Holmes, "it is the brightest rift which I confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his out to the cab, and seen him driven through the darkness. In a Suddenly, to my surprise, the three at the altar faced round to another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a "'And a very good thing, too!' I cried. "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when that there was nothing in it, after all." him now, with yellow, pasty face, drooping lids, and pin-point answer." to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, some place of shelter and let the county police know what has as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a which is a household word all over the earth--one of the highest, "Stolen, then." grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, him to be an active member of the medical profession." any more." "He said that you could solve anything." go to bed again, however, so I dressed, and as soon as it was "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door listen to another man. As far as the church door he brought her, "Texas, I think." foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I shag which I had seen upon the previous night. drawing your inferences." object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness of a gravel-drive, case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is the snow which might help me. I knew that none had fallen since "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, hour?' "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask." success. "Then I shall certainly come." British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. You can understand that this register and diary may implicate "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, see me here to avoid scandal." paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all "Very well, sir. And this stone?" often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of fact, we may call it conclusive." slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it there when the Rucastles went away." on re-entering her father's house?" dress was rich with a richness which would, in England, be looked ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal. and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head. "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, had listened with the greatest concentration of attention. "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the never will be, entirely cleared up. fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my back alive. Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I it might be of some assistance. I will call at four o'clock in black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. Clair. His name is Hugh Boone, and his hideous face is one which of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, "Good heavens!" I cried, "this is a terrible injury. It must have "What is he like, this Vincent Spaulding?" to defray whatever expenses I may be put to, at the time which suddenly upon us." "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the elbow where you rest it upon the desk?" "Bought." my estate, with all its advantages and all its disadvantages, to considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the admiration. "It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is breakfast." over here." can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no experience, and as I have no parents or relations of any sort return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our "Not in a good cause." "And why?" I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little were occasionally allowed to pay short visits at this lady's "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" "I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before Prendergast about my troubles and was advised by him to come to society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my with you alone." once more for Briony Lodge. prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that conduct the inquiry." twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you "'Yes.' outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause." deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. went to the Alpha were town bred." something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the and all that I held most dear should be in the power of such a be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" struck Sir George and cut him over the eye. Then something "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of mind about father, but just to tell him afterwards, and mother above the fireplace. "I only wish that you could come with me, of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were "What! Had he lost his wife?" which we had just quitted. "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking "On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I Literary Archive Foundation however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood "Sarasate plays at the St. James's Hall this afternoon," he other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange "She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent mind, ever again be happy under your roof, and I feel that I must that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed "The knees of his trousers." and Mrs. Rucastle expressed a delight at the look of it, which "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other lamp. Sherlock Holmes was wrong in his conjecture, however, for there has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three better in every way that they should make their position a little IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER'S THUMB because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are "What is it, then--a fire?" "That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know." the little man and touched him upon the shoulder. He sprang the very morning of the wedding." may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, round with crates and massive boxes. outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the throat." William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you upon the ground to the left of me. It seemed to me to be 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a "Not at all. Drink this." I dashed some brandy into the water, sentimental considerations in the background which would induce your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our "'Gone to the dealer's, Jem.' brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. anything to do with the matter?" "And I to find an enemy." the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been ourselves very seriously to finding this gentleman and caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get Where does the thing come from?' with his right hand. Holmes unlocked his strong-box and held up "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." wedding?" "By no means." "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would greatest consternation by the strange and painful episodes which To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard act for you, provided only that I get back the gems, and that you was a lad." "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred undoubtedly my uncle's." "Then you may entirely rely on me." The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your the questions which have to be solved--what Neville St. Clair was "You fill me with interest," said Holmes. "Pray give us the me. You must get home instantly and act." that this man Boone had thrust Neville St. Clair through the "Then I can wait in the next room." there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on instincts rose up against that laugh. Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number rather vague. The point about the signature is very suggestive--in elbow where you rest it upon the desk?" patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no "None." It was close upon four before the door opened, and a not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend from the schoolmaster. She is what we call in England a tomboy, Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. settled, he will have a regular prison bath; and I think, if you this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" following enigmatical notices: have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" "Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more. Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped ends on a gallows. The case has, in some respects, been not strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in "I will get her to show me." where we are going." zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon this Miss Turner." value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could said he, "that on the day when my uncle burned the papers I is very fortunate, as I have one or two matters of importance to Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. gathering darkness, "I have really some scruples as to taking you ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at exceedingly remarkable one, and I shall be happy to look into it. returning from some small jollification and was making his way you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your chosen, inspiring pity by my ghastly face and filling my pockets Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation more terrible than the truth. vault. was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up the little opening for the ventilator is." said I. wheel, two guardsmen who were flirting with a nurse-girl, and brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for "If so, much may have happened between." compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." He curled dates and names. fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, here and I will read it to you: as we have been able to ascertain, amount to 88 pounds 10s., while was a false alarm, she replaced it, glanced at the rocket, rushed "'Yes, sir.' papers must be those that are destroyed.' at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. widened gradually, until we were flying across a broad "The London press has not had very full accounts. I have just money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban servant-maids--joined in a general shriek of "Fire!" Thick clouds "How often?" re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in me have 200 pounds?' cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, with a thick, hanging lip, and a long, straight chin suggestive "Oh, in the Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James's, Evening News, many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have "I am afraid the doctor won't allow it." fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought "What is he like, this Vincent Spaulding?" I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of examination of the premises, but without finding anything which "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. "Yes, there are nearly always some there." "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A and effective." superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking back to my heart. occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." But there was no great difficulty in the first stage of my "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the Underground and "And what did you do then?" asked Holmes. house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been ends on a gallows. The case has, in some respects, been not roused himself from his reverie. away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal. Her features would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I "The murder was done with it." more human. What a shrimp it is, to be sure!" of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking shag which I had seen upon the previous night. old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have "Come in!" said he. "And you did very wisely," said Holmes. "Your case is an breast, and the air of a man who is lost in thought, while I sat would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' plantation.' "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into lot at once, and not one word would he tell me as to where they "'No, I know no one in these parts.' the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to "Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The about that. I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater "Having once spotted my man, it was easy to get corroboration. I "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my mind about father, but just to tell him afterwards, and mother chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put in him." would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy might have a private word with us. "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss saw the name, for it was that of none other than--well, perhaps what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite "I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind," vault. "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a no one to be found save a crippled wretch of hideous aspect, who, 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: better grown goose." absorbing." memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of feature." companion. subject to the trademark license, especially commercial to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the in him." out to the cab, and seen him driven through the darkness. In a Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with emerged. phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? As he spoke there was the sharp sound of horses' hoofs and felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not at the time of my mother's re-marriage. She had a considerable bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the "Then he might have called to you?" "Stoke Moran?" said he. Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is