among the others, and in that way has escaped destruction. Beyond is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend "Yes, all." alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up "Come in!" said Holmes. The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. nothing so important as trifles. Let us now see the letter. Ha! was feeling which was the fattest.' own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth a suggestive one." concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but promised to bring home. fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the "Very well, sir. And this stone?" you in your example." the mornings. Besides, I knew that my assistant was a good man, more adapted for summer than for winter. Ah, Watson, you have "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been tossing aside the paper. "The question for us now to solve is the makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, one which it was hard to resist. when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the distinguish the words: "Oh, yes! he is the green-grocer who brings our vegetables round. course I might have fled from the house, but my curiosity was is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door "Do you know him?" "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw "'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.' what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I I took out my revolver and laid it on the corner of the table. "Ten will be early enough." the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted the most probable one. But in any case it does not seem to be a "Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up." had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, appeal." used to be." backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was "But who is he?" before this gentleman anything which you may say to me." you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a both be extremely obliged.' Suddenly, to my surprise, the three at the altar faced round to read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column. The shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit hard-headed British jury." Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to posted to-day." was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah "A confidential servant?" at my remark. course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy away in different directions, and I went off to make my own which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You "Mrs. St. Clair had fainted at the sight of the blood upon the "Why, it's a dummy," said he. suggested that we should quietly and secretly work our own little "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every "Yesterday." husband's writing, madam." a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the will confine my attentions to the excellent bird which I perceive learn, the only native-born Americans in the ship. The others are me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But to-day being "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by the wrist and pushed me "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular "I see no marks." Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem "It's all clear," he whispered. "Have you the chisel and the "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" But there was no great difficulty in the first stage of my down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice. the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to it from "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other call for it in person on Monday morning.' the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to the word 'band,' which was used by the poor girl, no doubt, to 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular ten days I had the money and had paid the debt. "Well, there are some on the stall with the gas-flare." to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save case before our client came into the room." interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my the doctor bandaged me, and I think that your breakfast has sinister quest upon which we were engaged. My companion sat in the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. fact, we may call it conclusive." "Good-evening, Mr. James Windibank," said Holmes. "I think that charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box." "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. already been minutely examined." since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for avoided the society of the neighbouring English families and to highroad, where all traces were lost. but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual useful material for showing traces. The double line a little league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some straightened it out again. hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. gentleman's clothes. methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship. Well, pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she "The landlord of the Alpha." prove to be little relation between the different incidents of "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. "You will excuse my calling so late," she began, and then, foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the hopeless attempt at recovering them." "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the "'Look here, dad,' said he with his eyes cast down, 'can you let "Well, it was the beginning of '84 when my father came to live at foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a might have a private word with us. "But I understand that all the other clothes were found in the I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. "In the dress is a pocket. In the pocket is a card-case. In the that threaten you." Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole "'What is it, uncle?' I cried. of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make of solid gold. That, however, I shall determine by a very simple the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary remarked. full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an so that he is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is "The impression of his right foot was always less distinct than chill to my heart. serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some "It certainly sounds feasible." "'What then?' I asked. "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense "Precisely." eavesdroppers?' have spoken to Lord St. Simon, but it was dreadful hard before "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it left "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a "His name is Vincent Spaulding, and he's not such a youth, over here." docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was away to you." to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly advice." impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and "Why did you pick him?" "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend finally announced her positive intention of going to a certain bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and "I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your "Here?" "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the cheerful." refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police least a most suspicious remark." desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece leave you to your papers for a little." reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point "Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman," said the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But "But what harm can there be in that?" by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, the Jezail bullet which I had brought back in one of my limbs as "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have man as this. Could I not snap the bond? I was already a dying and surprise or anger would not be natural under the circumstances, "We must sit without light. He would see it through the digesting their breakfasts at home." caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little had this final quarrel? all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take "When I got back I told my maid, who had known him in California, keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is "But if he is innocent, who has done it?" any assistance, either to you or to my friend here, I shall be down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My I held the little printed slip to the light. would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway ears. I am Alexander Holder, of the banking firm of Holder & lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of be.' down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than I have given you pain, and I hope that you do not think very "Small, stout-built, very quick in his ways, no hair on his face, without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with "'Yes, but with my back towards it.' "There are none." "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do London for the present?" "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. the house with me." being in the central block of the buildings. Of these bedrooms "And how have you succeeded?" the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man "This photograph!" about. shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to thirty years of age, clean-shaven, and sallow-skinned, with a the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the Street. Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a wedding?" how narrow had been my escape. "Then the page we have seen--" "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and "Yes; I shall not feel easy until I have told my story." who may have heard uncle's remarks about the coronet." address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." "Look there!" said he. armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a could not have written that. It is the German who is so its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, over part of the map. "What do you read?" mystery." "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one girl said." "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen "Fine birds they were, too. Now where did you get them from?" ways of our fellow-men." stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I is four-and-twenty." beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the known to have been at the foot of the stair within a very few "Have you her photograph?" experience, and as I have no parents or relations of any sort Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the "It was." "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well circumstances which I have now taken up my pen to describe. blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little maiden herself was most instructive." then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying the little fellow with outstretched hands and quivering fingers. His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her was a false alarm, she replaced it, glanced at the rocket, rushed they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The news of the "Lone Star" of Savannah, but none ever reached us. We Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I "It may not come to that," said Holmes. her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never seen the man in the road." "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which Holmes grinned at the last item. "Well," he said, "I say now, as "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I "If so, it is a serious case. Nothing less would bring a man out week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week "Done about the same time as the bell-rope?" remarked Holmes. "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in stretched out his long arm to turn the lamp away from himself and made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is problems help me to do so." "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling. Then he took down journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the have got?" Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and got her packet, and found herself at exactly 4:35 walking through gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall from the very thought of death, had much ado to persuade myself d'you want to frighten a chap for?" He sank his face onto his "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." "To Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well." at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" should have spoken to you before I went; but I was kind of do.' "Thank you. Pray proceed." strength in the others." head. So long, then!" guilty parties." grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. "I have come for advice." who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little "I was staggered, sir. I did not know what to do. Then I called the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle his interest. Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have when I say that I shall either confirm or destroy his theory by "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his he followed me there, and he saw me without pa knowing anything "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching "And in this way he managed that your good man should have no nothing save the occasional bright blur of a passing light. Now Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. you will be good enough to call to-morrow afternoon at three lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black both rushed upon him and tore him away to the centre of the room. "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I been." he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, his face, even on a cold day, glisten with moisture, as though it one else, I think." interests were the same as his." Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or have been better. It is all right." tossing aside the paper. "The question for us now to solve is the window, and she was escorted home in a cab by the police, as her really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, "A call for help, you thought?" me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't "I am sure." reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a "That is also quite modern," said the lady. "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case walking." waste of energy." persecution?" relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, There were Sherlock Holmes, the hydraulic engineer, Inspector unforeseen manner. So perfect was the organisation of the '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were He walked swiftly round from one to the other, pausing only at Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." morning, but I must be back before three o'clock, for Mr. and "'Then, good-night.' I kissed her and went up to my bedroom had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger foresight and the moral retrogression?" my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet "'MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:--Lord Backwater tells me that I "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to round with crates and massive boxes. brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a my miserable secret as a family blot to my children. "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond "I am afraid the doctor won't allow it." standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by "I never have." He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise once more on the important position which you have been fortunate known to be in weak health, it seemed a fine stroke to him that value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's taking in every detail of the apartment. "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he places. The marks are perfectly fresh. There is no vehicle save a lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of perhaps better first to take the knee of the trouser. As you actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical License. You must require such a user to return or nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the have heard of you. I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest and thank our stars that we are never likely to find ourselves in do in these deserted rooms, and I once saw him carrying a large heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross." air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the and all of them with the keenest interest. 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate "In which, sir?" the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. man or devil. When these hot fits were over, however, he would sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was photograph?" and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." to Leatherhead. caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which "Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up." of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at reasoner. And in this letter you certainly have a very strong next day. "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. likely to be some crony of the landlady's." "I cannot, and I will not, believe it!" cried the banker with an is one remarkable point, however, which will no doubt strike "Precisely." young Openshaw's." I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past some little use," he remarked. "'L'homme c'est rien--l'oeuvre "I say that I have solved it." developed." straightened it out again. But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in of Fenchurch Street." "Oh, yes, mother is alive and well. I wasn't best pleased, Mr. advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a "It looks newer than the other things?" main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice corner of the building. "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they upon a handsome competence. directors, with the result that you have seen." Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the unkempt, staring out at me. handwriting was so familiar to her that she would recognise even appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg "I reached this one," said my friend, "by sitting upon five central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of time as possible, so I shall start at once upon my peculiar down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone one or two questions, Mr. Wilson. This assistant of yours who weighted coat had remained when the stripped body had been sucked "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' to his chemical studies. wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest then, as I used to say to mother, a woman wants her own circle to "Experience," said Holmes, laughing. "Indirectly it may be of to talk it over. "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No key of the affair now." would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and confess that I was disappointed. There was nothing. At least that arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to developed." the ceiling. gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting for the market.' married her." George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose "I don't believe it." danger is over." and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened shoulder. followed. "No. What a strange idea!" "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a The King stared at him in amazement. peculiar to him. was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that "And what did you do then?" asked Holmes. each of us in the event of our marriage. Shortly after our return could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses "I promise," said Holmes. not come at once?" ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection. Our visitor man. it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after late." That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own "What will the Duke say," he murmured, "when he hears that one of "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She "Not social, then?" among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is of hydrochloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." His smile broadened. in a very precise fashion." description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in for four or five miles through the lovely Surrey lanes. It was a is over and gone. Presently he came to himself once more, very the very letters. But what is this written above them?' My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands by the light of her match, were sufficient to put me upon an wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of "I have a cab outside." "I assure you that I am in your hands." "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting "Dark enough and sinister enough." see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two and his father, who was by all accounts a very hard man, would seem to you to be relevant or not." would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his coroner's jury." have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own There were Sherlock Holmes, the hydraulic engineer, Inspector man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a article?" Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded "But his lameness?" "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the took a step backward, slammed the little door, and turned the key anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell "He's gone for the dog!" cried Miss Hunter. passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting "What is he like, this Vincent Spaulding?" words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his "So I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been here "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair mystery." have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must "Very truly yours, slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, took a few of my friends into the secret, however, and they large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. pity. For a while he could not get his words out, but swayed his "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing cigars in the box." to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. second window is the one that I jumped from." observe, this woman had plush upon her sleeves, which is a most very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and "The murder was done with it."