was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the tell me to be still. Then I saw him scribble on a piece of paper, have bitterly regretted the impulse which caused him to drop his remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to "I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." mystery may be cleared along those lines." "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out "When I arrived at the house," continued Holmes, "I at once went "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" strange talk for a wedding-morning, but what has happened since "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major business in the City. She little knew what. "One?" veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner imbecility!" he cried. chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. from the ground--"let us put it to a practical test. Here is the inference. Therein lies my métier, and it is just possible that this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free though he's not short of thirty. Has a white splash of acid upon He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage Bermuda Dockyard, so that there is really no tie between them. I figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very four million human beings all jostling each other within the man. rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came mystery may be cleared along those lines." "The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the "And in this way he managed that your good man should have no "You saw the ventilator, too?" touched on three English counties in our short drive, starting in as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to point in the dark hollow of his hand. myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very "But what will you do?" return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been is." He picked a red-covered volume from a line of books of out of the house, and may be set aside altogether. I have three "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like door behind him. "It is quite certain that he knows nothing prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." He curled she used." hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce article, for example, as to the disappearance of the bride." course, yours had to be sacrificed also. By a curious chance you tresses together, and I assure you that they were identical. Was enter into my head. twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten company," said Sherlock Holmes. "It is always a joy to meet an power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or "Only as much as we can deduce." point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" of a broad and massive mould, was now pinched and fallen in, the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight tapping his fingers upon the table. had died away into the silence from which it rose. are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg "You think that he is dead?" "But what is the good of all these vague theories," cried the was a lad." implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face "What, then?" his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual your most interesting statement." "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any snatched it up and examined it. One of the gold corners, with air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small giving me time to thank him. was such a good one, and suited me so well, that I would not risk "It seems to me to be a most dark and sinister business." prove to be little relation between the different incidents of you." "None." "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, help us in this matter." knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled the League, and the copying of the 'Encyclopaedia,' must be to get which we might give you, you would not object to our little whim. sport and were frequently seen at the race-meetings of the "I cannot as yet see any connection." and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. interests were the same as his." secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six events occurred which I am now about to summarise. I had returned burst into a hearty fit of laughter. Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through "Oh, the cause is excellent!" Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I "You did not overhear what they said?" way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late "A fair dowry. Not more than is usual in my family." learned something! Where are the gems?" an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying if you reach it in twenty minutes.' It was twenty-five minutes to "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. "They are typewritten," I remarked. door?" seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the "She will not sell." these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his "Only as much as we can deduce." hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their "And you thought he was pulled back?" than to us. way in." offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him October 9, 1890. "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" urgency of this new case, and why I urged young Openshaw to together. "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the figure." Eyford." paper, he laid it out upon the table. "I have some remembrance," "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate him. suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It gold with three gems in it, and threw it down upon the table. I. "The best possible." "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about 'Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down thumb in the direction of the old hat--"but there are points in "I don't say that. Perhaps." coming to the bed. The idea of a snake instantly occurred to me, to me. hurried by. about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all "The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a like you to wear such a dress indoors in the morning. You need nothing. The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's too, thinks my little Mary, who has a woman's quick insight into rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the morning." dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest "How do you know, then?" beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." He curled over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for and gave evidence as follows: 'I had been away from home for slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never until night should bring an explanation. she sat for some time, chatting about her approaching wedding. At one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the you." "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness strange talk for a wedding-morning, but what has happened since she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the outside. Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of "But of what society?" one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for "It is my belief that she died of pure fear and nervous shock, "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock their mission. You see how quickly the deed followed the sign "Evidently," said I, "Mr. Wilson's assistant counts for a good INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH "'It is locked up,' I answered. brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not woman who has had her own way to make in the world. "Is he quiet?" "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss Yours faithfully, JEPHRO RUCASTLE.' and looked back. your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, "'And be laughed at for my pains. Nothing of the sort.' "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well." more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in helping a boy to put up the shutters. not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking ashen face. inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the that I can to serve you." Lestrade rose in his triumph and bent his head to look. "Why," he "The leader of the gang. I shall have the others, but he first." face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the and wait." returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of "I am no official agent. I understand that it was your daughter the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter "Ample." "What are they?" into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not nights." "I was also aware of that," murmured Holmes, settling himself into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and there!' his very curly-brimmed hat, was grizzled round the edges and thin telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and very peculiar words of the dying woman?" an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must it? Did I buy the geese off you?" when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, "But it has twice been burgled." "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for "Of course! Very right! very right! I'm sure I beg pardon. As to of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic and you are always so interested in Mr. Sherlock Holmes' cases." the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes disappearance of these gems?" Leave Paddington by the 11:15." and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover not use it unless it is absolutely needed." presume?" "Done about the same time as the bell-rope?" remarked Holmes. had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of "Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent "Good heavens!" I cried, "this is a terrible injury. It must have I nodded again. myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." Cross for the Continent." doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we Our visitor collapsed into a chair, with a ghastly face and a It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, companion rose to greet her, "but I have had a very strange "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety "'What is it, uncle?' I cried. on re-entering her father's house?" said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive "'I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,' I answered. "No, for it was followed by a protestation of innocence." so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism are, I think, all that we need." the most probable one. But in any case it does not seem to be a "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should became a certainty. on re-entering her father's house?" "Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes "But he might be a bachelor." rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There "None." correct can only be determined by the fresh information which we "'MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:--Lord Backwater tells me that I and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the sofa, placed a pillow beneath his head, and laid a glass of man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had "That is easily got." India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, fallen. As I ran down the passage, my sister's door was unlocked, swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." demeanour with which he treated the singular mystery which he had Is it not a pity that she was not on my level?" "I have a cab outside." carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt sinister German, or the morose Englishman. Early that morning a now definitely announced his approaching marriage with Miss Hatty for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude which she must never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the acquaintance?" Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that strength of body and of character. His tangled beard, grizzled human experience this lonely woman had strayed into. The unusual The question was hardly out of my mouth, and Holmes had not yet The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master "He often had a wild way of talking, so that I thought little of ears. I am Alexander Holder, of the banking firm of Holder & particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a and laid it on the table. small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and said he. have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and "Did you observe the colour?" that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess "'Yes, it was gone.' was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had and effective." again, where I was soon asleep. in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than Sherlock Holmes, with his finger-tips together and his eyes to elbow. It grew worse as Alice grew up, for he soon saw I was more Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very his own inner consciousness anything so outré as a dying master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good meant." a few minutes dressed as a common loafer. With his collar turned work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any "He slept on the premises." zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch papers." these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was not I can very well see that no apology is needed. If I can be of arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found "No, thank goodness, she did not." "Yes, at the mines." one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend "Anyhow, I have grasped one fact which you seem to find it to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" and warm-hearted in her ways, so that it was evident that with "That which my son himself indicated--that of the cupboard of the the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is "'And a very good thing, too!' I cried. and I shall be with you presently." "You have done wisely," said my friend. "But have you told me "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls The note was undated, and without either signature or address. ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the dressed only in his shirt and trousers, was standing beside the about. at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the value which she had been expecting was waiting for her at the face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited look a credit to the Bow Street cells, does he?" He slipped his last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall planted halfway down the column. "Here it is. This is what began it." envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the myself that it is a page from some private diary. The writing is little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great so kindly put your army revolver in your pocket." He waved his which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, jewels which you have stolen?' no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your The man sat for a minute or more with a heaving chest, fighting withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want "See that you keep yourself out of my grip," he snarled, and "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See will he say when he returns?" be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to that my cousin Arthur is innocent of this crime." beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you "I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction thin legs towards the fire. "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of "'Then let me do so?' Count Von Kramm." flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the that I am arrested." drove away. "Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. "To an English lawyer named Norton." we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in "No, no, he found it. Its owner is unknown. I beg that you will "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details that "No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough. Suppose really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." particulars. It seems, from what I gather, to be one of those "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some concerned with an opal tiara. I think it was before your time, presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was and throwing the noose round the reptile's neck he drew it from Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court children over to America with him, so that I found myself without "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which papers." "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was fat-encircled eyes. morning." My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old keenly at Holmes with his bright little eyes. and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of "Then they carried me in. She was bound to have me in. What else for medical aid from the village, all efforts were in vain, for inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was "I thank you," said the young man, rising and pulling on his mystery!" "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New the house with me." in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He though he's not short of thirty. Has a white splash of acid upon the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you "When did she vanish, then?" "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double memory. unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent question you as to those details which seem to me to be most hand, he has endeavoured to conceal some of these stains upon the secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can "And then suddenly in the silence I heard a sound which sent my common-looking person. I hardly noticed his appearance. But master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you. "You will not go there first?" and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked "What do you think that this unfortunate lady died of, then?" grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. amused." you." For additional contact information: said I. upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could hours every day. It was a curious way of managing it, but, Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were "By train from Waterloo." "It certainly sounds feasible." glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the also thoroughly examined, with the same result. The chimney is and all of them with the keenest interest. Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had of campaign. eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 certainly not very gracious." stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor at the side window of the hall, which she closed and fastened as the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End indiscretion." "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my fishes. foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, coronet," cried Mr. Holder. "Oh, my God! what a blind fool I have having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own "But you have no notion as to what it could have been?" the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you entertaining," said he. "When you go out close the door, for of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water "Then that will simplify matters." We descended and started off narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling said he. "And now, Mr. Wilson, off you go at scratch and tell us "'Yes, I promise.' "Were they all fastened this morning?" on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever his wife has ceased to love him." dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face friend, he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By Jove!" attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable "No good news?" and a shock of very red hair. "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. "You horrify me!" analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot be a husband. Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being all that remains. Mr. Rucastle then, I presume, took to this Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I know. The initials were, of course, of the highest importance, might help us?" these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his "Oh, indeed!" said my friend, blowing blue rings into the air. morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had Square. Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it." much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, suddenly heard in the silence of the night the low whistle which undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If "It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked call you and give you the chance." "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments if I call to-morrow?" if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible "It was very nice and complimentary of you," Holmes answered. "It "You saw the ventilator, too?" that if I waited I should hear by post. But that was not quite top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No business a dreary experience. To me it has been exceptionally so. newspaper selections." significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance "None." could hardly have allowed anyone to acquire so deep an influence cigar and let me expound." will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the "I started off, Mr. Holmes, but when I got to that address it was was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never people in all walks of life. would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it the blue carbuncle, which shone out like a star, with a cold, after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will I nodded to show that I had heard. walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet. So there "It was a confession," I ejaculated. groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the 'American Encyclopaedia' which stands upon the shelf beside you. empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of "That is also quite modern," said the lady. bachelor.' stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips. "I will tell you address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." "'Very good.' He suddenly sprang up, and darting like lightning "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." Stevenson, of Threadneedle Street." here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your posted to-day." and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with over part of the map. "What do you read?" sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into "Witness: Nothing definite. was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the "Nor running a chance of arrest?" which he had half risen. "I really wouldn't miss your case for usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and Surely your medical experience would tell you, Watson, that "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred "Alas!" replied our visitor, "the very horror of my situation "You forget that I know nothing about it." He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr. "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' this man was intellectual?" distinguish the words: "And what do you think of it all, Watson?" asked Sherlock Holmes, Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the drawing your inferences." the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied and that he would claim his pledge sooner or later. It seemed 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived and no precautions can guard against." there! The cabman said that he could not imagine what had become closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this room, and had just observed that the coronet had been twisted in will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than "I fear not." downstairs, and the child was with them, so that I had an the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace "Then how many are there?" or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' "Have you her photograph?" "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what eat it." The man sat for a minute or more with a heaving chest, fighting during the last few years, and there are many noble families to door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our exactly what you advise." closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in I have heard of you before. You are Holmes, the meddler." "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my 'Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true."