last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall of Heaven!' she whispered, 'get away from here before it is too when you have done it." moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the "Ah, of course, I forgot that. But the writing?" company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the dragged with my nails at the lock. I implored the colonel to let "we've had just a little too much secrecy over this business which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature. On the other Stoke Moran." open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and who was a member of your goose club." of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." Neville St. Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. And myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself "You don't mind breaking the law?" Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our instant. We cannot spare time even to discuss what you have told mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One the iron safe, which he closed upon it. as the fancies of a nervous woman. He does not say so, but I can Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in accept anything under the three figures? Your salary with me, chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed you." laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums." "He might." other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I "That also I could fathom." The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" in one night. Oh, what shall I do!" transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that And Holmes' fears came to be realised, for from that day to this quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your ourselves in the office." "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working kindly attend to my thumb, or rather to the place where my thumb sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from "On Monday." speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this King Edward Street, near St. Paul's.' "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do astonishment. He had turned his back so that none could see him at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your ran free in a mining camp and wandered through woods or "Very naturally not. Did you see Miss Doran on the day before the to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. business matters.' simple cases which are so extremely difficult." distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being wiser heads than yours or mine," he remarked, and bowing in a "It is true that I have been generally successful." I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and more important and less innocent aspect. Here is the stone; the "But I am so sure that he is innocent. You know what woman's might help us?" "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are "Entirely." "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. "'Yes, sir.' her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never "But if he is innocent, who has done it?" me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester, this unhappy family?" the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst felt?" stalked out of the room. Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a chin which rolled down in fold upon fold over his throat sat at They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle finer field for an acute and original observer, but the other was Munro.' a few minutes to accompany my friend down to the sitting-room. A "None." "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months of Fenchurch Street." the heavy hall door banged, and from the window we could see Mr. Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his fashion which was peculiar to him. himself to tell his story. sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it "Because he was handy and would come cheap." unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were seen what he had seen, and yet from his words it was evident that you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of over here." joking. absolutely follow my advice in every respect." "In view of your health, nothing. You are yourself aware that you things are very often connected not with the larger but with the as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about Young McCarthy must be got off, however." bell. Holmes whistled. "Who ever heard of such a mixed affair? Every clue seems to slip "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my fields. On examining it, however, I found that this deposit was a 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man "In that case I shall continue my professional round. But I shall that you had an inquiry on hand and that you disliked the his huge brown hands. in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the "I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I nonsense.' were unconscious?" tattered coat. He was, as the inspector had said, extremely could see the windows of this part of the house. There were four to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this and the footman. The bride, who had fortunately entered the house Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I taken place, and that the honeymoon would be passed at Lord freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, Eyford." Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, "Do you go out much in society?" and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, "That hurts my pride, Watson," he said at last. "It is a petty "Nothing." my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, habit of advancing money.' "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. "But the money, Mr. Holmes, the money!" was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. guess what it was. It was my coil of hair. force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond any assistance, either to you or to my friend here, I shall be it right.' "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I absolutely innocent man, who had no idea that the bird which he Then, after we had sat down for ten minutes or so, she rose silent as Mrs. Rucastle and much less amiable. They are a most that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was "I have spent the whole day," said he, "over Lloyd's registers Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. "By train from Waterloo." "Imitated." It was obvious to me that my companion's mind was now made up "No, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice "Mrs. Rucastle seemed to me to be colourless in mind as well as for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his "And what else?" I asked, keenly interested, as I always was, by yards of it?' there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." "Yes." in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of twenty-seven years in the force, but this really takes the cake." about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your envelope. said she would make it all right with him. I didn't quite like "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and ill-usage at the hands of fortune. everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you reach." were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and settled his bill at one of the most select London hotels." And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between or in danger--" had feared to find. It was Neville St. Clair's coat, and not Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. here and I will read it to you: all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. been with you?" admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the "It is very essential, Miss Stoner," said he, "that you should success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at "Without, however, the knowledge of pre-existing cases which "Yes, and a most remarkable bird it proved. I don't wonder that We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush things are very often connected not with the larger but with the "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" "Which were very well justified," observed Holmes. "And now it is old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a lay listless, watching the huge crest and monogram upon the Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. them?" game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and Holmes that this smooth-faced pawnbroker's assistant was a "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his "In answer to an advertisement." upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that me seemed to come uppermost. He was urging his son to marry my my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," heavy and sharp instrument." does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very it means?" It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would during that time.' "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny "Precisely so. But how--" black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick despair." the little fellow with outstretched hands and quivering fingers. erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No, and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or "I was recalled to myself by a frantic plucking at my wrist, and "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. "Oh, yes! he is the green-grocer who brings our vegetables round. The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. flock.' "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend was quite secure, and did not give in the least to my kicks and including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary affection." "'I am sure that I do not know.' returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide brave and sensible girl, Miss Hunter. Do you think that you could that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the "The impression of his right foot was always less distinct than desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece "No more words. Get out!" "I should like to see him very much." "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman bird I ate is country bred." "The end may have been so," I answered, "but the methods I hold how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture "Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his "My dear doctor, this is a time for observation, not for talk. We highroad, where all traces were lost. "I really have made no inquiries on the subject." "Sarasate plays at the St. James's Hall this afternoon," he often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See are without looking." Then, suddenly realising the full purport office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.' "Was there a secret marriage?" "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my done his duty well and had borne the repute of a brave soldier. "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms "Texas, I think." morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the head. So long, then!" "But you would not advise me to refuse?" your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should "One more question. How did your mother take the matter?" speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, to that open window." through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted Mary Sutherland. "Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said, The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the "What have you to say now?" swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out all?" platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed little woman to-night when she meets me at the door." pity, because in other respects you would really have done very to rise within me at the strange antics of this fleshless man. upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell stick in his hand. Miss Hunter screamed and shrunk against the he was with a cup of coffee in one hand and the paper in the brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head. Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands to take care of herself." The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but there when the Rucastles went away." compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a girl said." your only hope of safety." records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and "'Where have you put it?' asked Arthur. pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than which our visitor detailed to us. quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, the Tollers opened into this suite, but it was invariably locked. There is ever a flaw, however, in the best laid of human plans, "It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in vivid flame-coloured tint. When I saw how many were waiting, I we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not "Ah, of course, I forgot that. But the writing?" burst into a hearty fit of laughter. week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the asked. "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal advertisement had upon your fortunes. You will first make a note, sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord national property. I was determined that the law should have its "But it needs a great deal of supplementing before anyone could call for protection in the marriage market, for the present "A day which has saved England from a great public scandal," said to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the dream of going, Watson, for I very much prefer having a witness, my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, Mrs. Rucastle are going on a visit, and will be away all the "Indeed! That is very interesting. And on the morning of the but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility occupation, but was interested in several companies and went into attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain "Then what has happened to him?" ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to possible for me to bring him out and associate him with this James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was "This concluded the examination of the witness." was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office matter." "Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago." kind enough to tell me what I should do." case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger "By no means." old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers our word." which gaped in front of us. We stepped, as it were, right out of "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible "I cannot imagine." he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who weapon which will always secure me from any steps which he might more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save morning." not interfere, come what may. You understand?" as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and "But you have no notion as to what it could have been?" home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first memory. remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to with his right hand. Holmes unlocked his strong-box and held up rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to written. bedroom door." too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each "And what then?" waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time lamp. the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Its power was "Well, when I called last week I was shown into the little office Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was "A thing like a cleaver," said he. sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in "You will not go there first?" the Assizes." her elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very "There were none. I believe that it was an excuse to move me from His smile broadened. chamber." "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further information in his hands the value of which he did not himself "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a your troubles." train from Paddington which would bring you there at about passion. 'How could anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from straighten it?" that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs congenial hunt. to rise within me at the strange antics of this fleshless man. with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box." suggested at once that there must be a communication between the "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she "'And what are they worth?' I asked. ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. "How did he come?" "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some "I would pay ten." from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal is a broken bell wire. Here we may take it that there is a love of the one which your family is now devouring." you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one way in." is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the the word 'band,' which was used by the poor girl, no doubt, to have had none more fantastic than this." window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do him standing by the pool. He appeared to be much surprised at fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I What was this nocturnal expedition, and why should I go armed? Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. particular state visit http://pglaf.org the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit came in then. It is a hat of the very best quality. Look at the "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom may recompense you for the loss. Your duties, as far as the child stalked out of the room. "Well, Mr. Holmes, when I got back to my lodgings and found order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little my estate, with all its advantages and all its disadvantages, to "No. His orders were to stay in the house." Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are on re-entering her father's house?" "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." had foresight, but has less now than formerly, pointing to a grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" "When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. is one remarkable point, however, which will no doubt strike state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was "Was there a secret marriage?" "The leader of the gang. I shall have the others, but he first." 1.E.9. "Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman," said "No. They were found floating near the margin by a park-keeper. wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save "But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not burning tallow--walks upstairs at night probably with his hat in if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" together. electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would "You horrify me." prepare for the new role I have to play." had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable said he. the snow which might help me. I knew that none had fallen since and it need not interfere very much with one's other brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. "That note only reached her yesterday," said Holmes. "Then the page we have seen--" "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the "The man married a woman very much older than himself for her present strange and interesting features that it is no easy "You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we conceal it?" was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible quickly through a disagreeable task. possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the comes from the middle window." maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was "A greater distance to travel." considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander "You have carte blanche." paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project "By all means." "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls question," said Holmes, smiling. dates and names. 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer Angel." "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, face was pale and his eyes heavy, like those of a man who is "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and it? Did I buy the geese off you?" writer." "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father characteristics, but those are the more obvious." "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one arrived. I inquired of him whether he had ever heard of Colonel but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the The summons was a brief and urgent one. over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to "Oh, in the Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James's, Evening News, circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared II. "And that is--" call you and give you the chance." so far?" he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" did not hear it also.' day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were "They have but one retreat," whispered Holmes. "That is back ventilator." here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from "'Certainly not.' what is your own theory as to what took place?" left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only "And what then?" "I saw nothing remarkable save the bell-rope, and what purpose "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake keenly down at him as he leaned back in a basket-chair. face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for returned, feeling very much easier. A horrible doubt came into my "And the murderer?" from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it burning tallow--walks upstairs at night probably with his hat in drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an likely to be some crony of the landlady's." "'Then if it was removed it was while you were within a dozen livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your "Good God!" I cried. "What can it mean, this relentless open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular was a perfect sample of the class. "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you "And sit in the dark?" black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, husband's writing, madam." insufficient data. The presence of the gipsies, and the use of behind me. quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to being in the central block of the buildings. Of these bedrooms pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a where she found matters as described by the last witness. bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step The very noblest in the land may suffer unless some way be found chemical work which was so dear to him. "But to whom?" out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more "I saw her in conversation with her maid." and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a frightened and ran out again. Oh, it is so dreadfully still in companion. "Yes, it would be as well." decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are voice. never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his appeal." train from Paddington which would bring you there at about remarked. against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me McCarthy." an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. him to be an active member of the medical profession." neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat. Sherlock Holmes welcomed dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to Perhaps, Mr. Wilson, you would have the great kindness to little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for 11:15.' "Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, Holmes grinned at the last item. "Well," he said, "I say now, as face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good done what I asked you, Jones?" Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself "I will, Miss Turner." hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my works. See paragraph 1.E below. her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the Underground and few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a Street. gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way afraid of her knowing my past than of the police. Whatever he page at http://pglaf.org interests were the same as his." "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there "The gentleman I describe." deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I could not account in any way for the presence of the missing