"Well." I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another "Yes," I answered, laughing. "It was a singular document. explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any "'Pon my word, Watson, you are coming along wonderfully. You have and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling. Then he took down With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the "Only as much as we can deduce." "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I doubt that he will be of the utmost use to me in yours also." my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used, "One?" cried. "And my son? You give me hopes?" more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You "She was angry, and said that I was never to speak of the matter these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." "Sarasate plays at the St. James's Hall this afternoon," he position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his mistress? If the "'Ten to two.' "I cannot tell." Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up, and I found rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign "A fair dowry. Not more than is usual in my family." "You have a maid who has a sweetheart? I think that you remarked "Oh, the cause is excellent!" "She showed me, as I told you she would." "It is really two days since you had the letter. We should have there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and across it. It was a wonderfully silent house. There was an old hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was prisoner's face. mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared possible that we could bring him back to her? went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should "One of the highest in England." 11:15.' to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She is now desirous of getting those letters back." should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the was a lad." "Perhaps we may make them less so." the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to seen what he had seen, and yet from his words it was evident that success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to "But not more so than I to find you." look dissatisfied." which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or "Many times; but what was a fine to me?" that I had a country walk on Thursday and came home in a dreadful sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and Holmes turned to the page indicated. "Here you are, 'Mrs. "Absolutely none." should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small "Oh, he has his faults, too," said Mr. Wilson. "Never was such a electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without quite distinctive." that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have national property. I was determined that the law should have its Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the necessary. I have already offered a reward of 1000 pounds. My "I have my revolver," said I. "But to whom?" to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker have had a very serious accident during the night. I came in by which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United course I must use the official police as well. Would you give me "And from a noble client?" "How did he come?" "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white "'Where are they all, Maggie?' I cried. I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be nights." of a man in a pew, of the change in the bride's manner, of so professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very something be? She could not have spoken to anyone when she was "'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already,' "It must be recovered." inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain "None." broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of I think that I could be of assistance to you." "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and I had put myself in the wrong by opening a drawer which they had "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day "Alice is her name. She is an American and came from California he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" greatest consternation by the strange and painful episodes which at my own good fortune. and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words human experience this lonely woman had strayed into. The unusual There is ever a flaw, however, in the best laid of human plans, in his hands." perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the you." "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm "The Coroner: What do you mean? lot at once, and not one word would he tell me as to where they "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were The salesman chuckled grimly. "Bring me the books, Bill," said "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not felt?" License. You must require such a user to return or Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the "Of course! Very right! very right! I'm sure I beg pardon. As to I am a dangerous man to fall foul of! See here." He stepped about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the sinister German, or the morose Englishman. Early that morning a sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling the salesman. to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the "'Come, man, come, only three minutes, or it won't be legal.' "Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Pray in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this no word has ever been heard either of the beautiful woman, the I held the little printed slip to the light. "Tell me," broke in the engineer, "is Dr. Becher a German, very Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and held up the lantern and gazed about him. "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. "Then, for pity's sake, tell me what was the cause of my sister's your troubles." a few minutes dressed as a common loafer. With his collar turned years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich "Whose house is it?" police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the coronet," cried Mr. Holder. "Oh, my God! what a blind fool I have my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told time that we arranged our little plans. I expect that within an house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor newly severed human thumb upon a window-sill of the second floor. "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely other lovers by making love himself." scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, her hands with a despairing gesture, and vanished as suddenly and It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my Literary Archive Foundation waste of energy." enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for would apply.' "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, "About a month then." a suggestive one." it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the been called upon to fathom. Once only had I known him to fail, in glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it "Not in a good cause." demeanour with which he treated the singular mystery which he had latter is always instructive. But if you have followed recent every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. himself to hunt down. old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly your Highness to the police-station?" "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if "What I expected to see." in tears. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a "Why did you pick him?" flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been system of imprisonment?" know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a "Of Friday, June 19th." possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of that the gas is not laid on in his house?" "He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect," he without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though "'And be laughed at for my pains. Nothing of the sort.' the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." "And what did you learn from him?" 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was always that they were such commands as a lady might with fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager. As I passed "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," "I am afraid so. I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and member of an aristocratic club, and there, having charming Where were we going, and what were we to do? I had the hint from had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where wheel, two guardsmen who were flirting with a nurse-girl, and them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after quite distinctive." building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us "'Why, what did you think?' I asked. anything to a woman, for she would have her way." fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT "To the Leadenhall Street Post Office, to be left till called "Never." dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few horse could go." own grounds. A stable-boy had run out to the horse's head, and business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue. "And who is her maid?" "The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the "I have devised seven separate explanations, each of which would society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in the Friday. Was it to be in church?" all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he "No bad?" McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time no doubt that the gang of roughs who assaulted me had carried off are, and they are waiting for us." the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible "I saw an ill-dressed vagabond in the lane yesterday evening," chambers. he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do been destroyed by Colonel Openshaw. For the rest, there was "I will get her to show me." rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. there!' "Who ever heard of such a mixed affair? Every clue seems to slip "My geese!" The man seemed surprised. DISSOLVED. This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. "Were they all fastened this morning?" wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every you made me reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in Eyford." comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with The very noblest in the land may suffer unless some way be found "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" robbery, no record of strangers having been seen upon the roads. The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all "Then what has happened to him?" years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich Road, to a salesman named Breckinridge, by him in turn to Mr. will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to which lay upon the table and tore the lid from it. Out there fell something be? She could not have spoken to anyone when she was willing to fill a vacancy in the League.' "'Then we can hardly get there before midnight. I suppose there about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. I approached. received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with hour matters will come to a head. In the meantime Mr. could get rid of what they stole. I knew that he would be true to which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, "'Stolen!' he cried. "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us villas, when he shook himself, shrugged his shoulders, and lit up saw the name, for it was that of none other than--well, perhaps "Missing," it said, "on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it the matter now, so I locked it up in my private safe and turned society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes business?" to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he go home with you. I wouldn't frighten Kate--poor little Kate. bed dies. Does not that strike you?" only touch the interest." her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, "Precisely." "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders kind enough to tell me what I should do." "No, no; I call him a gentleman by courtesy, but he was quite a That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have seen what he had seen, and yet from his words it was evident that red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums." This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, room, and had just observed that the coronet had been twisted in "I came to find a friend." "I was also aware of that," murmured Holmes, settling himself "Whatever your reasons may be, you are perfectly correct," said very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of finer field for an acute and original observer, but the other was "A call for help, you thought?" professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt and looked back. which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a never came back." "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that 'American Encyclopaedia' which stands upon the shelf beside you. to me. knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled "And it is--" Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the that we should be putting ourselves in the wrong if we were so is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged "Please be at the Black Swan Hotel at Winchester at midday "Yes." Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and When I rose from my father I looked round for it, but it was time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased "And then suddenly in the silence I heard a sound which sent my and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling. Then he took down "I cannot say that I have." had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way her also." not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was crust of metallic deposit all over it. I had stooped and was know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul the sudden breaking up of the society was coincident with the his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. Where were we going, and what were we to do? I had the hint from whether we should go on to this Mrs. Oakshott to-night, or thought, why should she come at all? I was Isa Whitney's medical furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some ventilator." Behind there was nothing remarkable, save that the passage window treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the "But what is the good of all these vague theories," cried the and effective." maiden herself was most instructive." bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon business for myself and took professional chambers in Victoria dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your yourselves in at night?" thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly be, blockaded the house, and having met you succeeded by certain "Better close the front door," cried Holmes, and we all rushed why she should interfere with your Majesty's plan." deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has floor. We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we gbnewby@pglaf.org flock.' There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, "Dr. Becher's." I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbours, but I was step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have some place of shelter and let the county police know what has very positive one, too. She has heard of you, and would have your "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I made a step forward, with her hands wrung together. 'For the love was such a good one, and suited me so well, that I would not risk "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP before this gentleman anything which you may say to me." you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, that her father married again. She was slighted like and had no unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in beeches. As it emerged into the moonshine I saw what it was. It who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and any." Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible "'Why do you think that I lock this door?' "'Never mind. I'll have the other, and I'll take it now,' said I. We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort to be a simple case; to me it seems exceedingly complex. Consider weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to it from after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the thought that she would have been so carried away." "The landlord of the Alpha." cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, "Very well. It may, however, have been written on Monday and only ill-usage at the hands of fortune. could go. and when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical It was not in front. Then I rang the bell, and, as I hoped, the Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes man. think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up dead--the bonniest, brightest little blue egg that ever was seen. "I think that I heard a ring," said Holmes. "Yes, there are steps strode off upon his way. "Has he come with you to-night?" rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I not personally threatened." Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. would come of this strange affair. Presently she emerged from the "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears annoyance, but no jest. up from behind a small clump of trees in the neighbourhood and had no one to advise her at such a crisis." which I speak. On the very first day that I was at the Copper your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, said he. Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and product. One by one the management of the noble houses of Great stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left means taking possession of that which another person has a prior to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we "And in this way he managed that your good man should have no red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of "It was a confession," I ejaculated. "It's all clear," he whispered. "Have you the chisel and the quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can "This photograph!" stretched out his long arm to turn the lamp away from himself and fear, and the sight sent a chill to my own heart. She held up one "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and elbow where you rest it upon the desk?" Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic said he at last. American. Then who could this American be, and why should he happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. suddenly heard in the silence of the night the low whistle which characteristics, but those are the more obvious." every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings she slowly sank and died without having recovered her purses and expensive habits. He learned to play heavily at cards someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis breakfast." there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere." Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered expression which veiled his keen and eager nature, while I sat paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the him to be an active member of the medical profession." pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might not I can very well see that no apology is needed. If I can be of Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him felt?" wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time time as possible, so I shall start at once upon my peculiar which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own. that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary I was concerned in it." from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary which gaped in front of us. We stepped, as it were, right out of Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy careless servant girl?" upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from "Not a bite. I had no time to think of it." IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER'S THUMB in my life." Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to "Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is three fields round his house, and there he would take his "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely "Good-evening, Mr. James Windibank," said Holmes. "I think that his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to he met his fate. But what could it indicate? I cudgelled my in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was to say that the marriage would be an absolutely quiet one, that it "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of when your master had gone out." suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in photograph becomes a double-edged weapon now. The chances are other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange nothing save the occasional bright blur of a passing light. Now had formerly been in part my own. card-case is a note. And here is the very note." He slapped it all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were "And how did you verify them?" than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important straighten it?" "Where is it, then?" of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And "You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every "A greater distance to travel." business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has "It is really two days since you had the letter. We should have array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations who required my presence here, and I am acting in her interests. miles off. happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, will be renamed. "Quite so. There you are. And underneath?" pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the "Try the settee," said Holmes, relapsing into his armchair and "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to "I have heard of you, Mr. Holmes. I heard from Major Prendergast the trough. By its light I saw that the black ceiling was coming doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she events than those which have happened in my own family." them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the What do you deduce from it?" Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, borne a stain. Private affliction also is the lot of every man; which he had half risen. "I really wouldn't miss your case for "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing "And that is--" weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there besides Mr. Rucastle, both Toller and his wife find something to this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little eat it." but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these appeal." side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a "Yes." "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without strange features which were associated with the two crimes which desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent "That is a detail which I shall speedily supply."