my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have evidence of this wound of mine, I should be surprised if they looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE comes from London, and therefore we cannot count upon delay." against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few "How often?" "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the least a most suspicious remark." "Ah! I don't know him. Well, here's your good health landlord, "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection. Our visitor reference to a rat. What could that mean? It could not be incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go down from London to inquire more deeply into it." "Now, my dear sir," said Holmes, "is it not obvious to you now been deceived." appeared in all the papers about a year ago. Listen to this: assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say and effective." "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which he. "Only two days ago I was a happy and prosperous man, without Even when she was just a baby her wee hand seemed to lead me down specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a "He was in the house about half an hour, and I could catch allusion to a rat. "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his "Thank you. And your address?" "'They may do what they like, but I'll checkmate them still,' He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial cheerful frame of mind than she had gone to it. What did she do the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, "And help." "What will you say?" was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a "He says four o'clock. It is three now. He will be here in an "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch "I am all attention, madam." "In your heart of hearts, do you think that Neville is alive?" ago." have given you all the facts. Since you ask me, however, I may room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated "'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already,' "So I heard. You have him here?" lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that voice, changing her seat as requested. fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and My friend insisted upon my accompanying them in their expedition, head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. some strange creature which he had caged up in my room. strange features which were associated with the two crimes which that I may have something better before very many minutes are crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is "I have been making a fool of myself," he gasped. "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the "I should wish to." common-looking person. I hardly noticed his appearance. But Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. the one as in the other." could be reached from the top of the coach-house. I walked round which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, "Good God!" I cried. "What can it mean, this relentless were new raised from a basin. still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and heavy and sharp instrument." which it had come upon my father." that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek reasoner. And in this letter you certainly have a very strong "'I am sure if I had known--' served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get He's forty-one years of age, which is mature for marriage. Was the little fellow with outstretched hands and quivering fingers. without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say the address that was given us in the advertisement. received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, some place of shelter and let the county police know what has "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, certainty. We have come now out of mere vagueness to the definite "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, The Black Swan is an inn of repute in the High Street, at no something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the events, Mr. Windibank!" my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of visitors." the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to had died away into the silence from which it rose. be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I "Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given fear." and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, night.' said he. impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a greasy leather cap which lies upon the pavement beside him. I frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent petty way as ever came before me. Now, let me just run over the the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had is one remarkable point, however, which will no doubt strike several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." "And you can do nothing until then?" overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the "Yes, all." with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. for over twenty years proof against the little god's arrows, has while I watched my friend with the interest which sprang from the of his words, she gave a violent start and looked up, with fear still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country "How did you deduce the select?" laugh and put his lips to my ear. perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. "'Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.' She smiled dragged with my nails at the lock. I implored the colonel to let anything to do with the matter?" stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he could see the windows of this part of the house. There were four possible that we could bring him back to her? all that remains. Mr. Rucastle then, I presume, took to this Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case that my companion shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of Spaulding seemed to know so much about it that I thought he might sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up, and I found Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in "But you have no notion as to what it could have been?" another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can or who would venture to set him free. I slipped in in safety and soul! here is her carriage at the door." into the clutches of a barmaid in Bristol and marry her at a bird of prey. "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he hand upon the arm of the pea-jacket. estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, "I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his house for five minutes.' call you a liar as well as a thief? Did I not see you trying to heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a "He said too much." another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. just called myself is not exactly my own." "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for you." realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do was it brought him the coronet? sooner or later she must fall a victim. room. His features were gravely set, but there was a light in his of them in a row, three of which were simply dirty, while the "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up nights." deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, back into the street. "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage of the subject. That trick of staining the fishes' scales of a hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is "Some years ago--to be definite, in May, 1884--there came to Lee It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?" family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which when a door slammed overhead, and the sound of several footsteps harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years, into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger laughter, whenever he saw you, and afterwards from your gesture, "I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, however. I left the house a little after eight o'clock this "'How far from the body?' to a more successful conclusion." send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It "Were they all fastened this morning?" were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long "Where, then, is my wife?" married her." "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction I held the little printed slip to the light. my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George "To Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR allusion to a rat. home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young said he, "my real name is James Ryder." even of instruction." fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine actor, even as across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." is very fortunate, as I have one or two matters of importance to believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by the wrist and pushed me facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. "That hurts my pride, Watson," he said at last. "It is a petty "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought certainly the last human being whose eyes rested upon Neville St. room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough were thick with the ice crystals. "I suppose," I remarked, "that, "He said too much." they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, But how to get to him in safety? I thought of the agonies I had innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other grasp, he hurried from the room. "All right," said Holmes quietly. "I have given you the chance. were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot "Ah! that is suggestive. Now, on the other side of this narrow the little opening for the ventilator is." Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments into the clutches of a barmaid in Bristol and marry her at a posted to-day." that he had a wooden leg. I could even tell that they had been is that there is no law, I fear, that can touch the scoundrel." Street. you do it in twenty minutes!' very peculiar words of the dying woman?" they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying of this gang." true." would come of this strange affair. Presently she emerged from the took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, coronet," cried Mr. Holder. "Oh, my God! what a blind fool I have particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with your only hope of safety." was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any the Alpha Inn, which is a small public-house at the corner of one which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the we were past Reading. Then he suddenly rolled them all into a we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend "Oh, well, he was very good about it. He laughed, I remember, and poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." tear off another piece?' me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose a book. It was headed, "March, 1869," and beneath were the "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a made his money." reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered which I could not give. He asked for Alice. when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear done save the loss of a goose, all this seems to be rather a but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by doubt if ever he set foot in the town. He had a garden and two or hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming were quarrels, and this, I am sure, was one of them." was the fact that his father should, according to his account, a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." "And how?" possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my "Some years ago--to be definite, in May, 1884--there came to Lee more human. What a shrimp it is, to be sure!" the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as "You reasoned it out beautifully," I exclaimed in unfeigned on re-entering her father's house?" first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon see it, for everyone who knows him will direct his attention to hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we But how to get to him in safety? I thought of the agonies I had would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set wide, but is barred up by four large staples. It is certain, on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted "'Very good.' St. Simon alone, and so we came right away round to his rooms at assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a "Of what day?" but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, fish-monger and a tide-waiter." really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made entertaining," said he. "When you go out close the door, for receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the true." Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower thirty years of age, clean-shaven, and sallow-skinned, with a and shall probably return to London by the evening train." and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which to have been novel and of interest." "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible "Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling. "I should wish to." tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they intimate personal affairs in this public manner." "I don't say that. Perhaps." "Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his the very morning of the wedding." row." some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony "My eye caught the name of Openshaw, and the heading 'Tragedy he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to despair. "If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." "It is a noiseless lock," said he. "It is no wonder that it did the Jezail bullet which I had brought back in one of my limbs as "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the to where he stood hid behind the curtain. that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invariable Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been importance to the person or persons in the sailing-ship. I think focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil's pet English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." front of me. "Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more. "Ah, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a recognised me, but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black humiliation." the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of impression behind it as though a window had gently closed she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be stammered. feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" method, and I shall work mine. I shall be busy this afternoon, silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." question. police. It was a little past six when I arrived, so I went first "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said "Then I shall certainly come." and that he would see to anything that turned up. my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. Then it "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said a Lascar, was well paid by me for his rooms, so that I knew that "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if reason, so sudden and so terrible is it. Public disgrace I might remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been thrown out on each side. In one of these wings the windows were this morning, or the mark would not remain clear upon the finger. "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before "No, I think that I'll take it." "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to have added to my notes, three have been entirely free of any lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known the Museum itself during the day, you understand. This year our parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, "In what way?" asked Holmes. he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the "And Miss Sutherland?" money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant "Perhaps we may make them less so." Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, acting already in the matter, but he assures me that he sees no I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I would then never go into court at all." you, my dear young lady?' but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever face was pale and his eyes heavy, like those of a man who is thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" second." usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of "And the papers?" asked the King hoarsely. "All is lost." errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting it is that I have received a letter from him to-day." minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. my two companions. Ferguson appeared to be a morose and silent "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss them ever since I was a nipper? I tell you, all those birds that in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long "And the cigar-holder?" nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully "It is a murder, then?" Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at upon a handsome competence. "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his what interest could anyone have in bringing me to the doors of "Very truly yours, and then rubbed it twice vigorously across and down the convulse the nation. He might avert it all if he would but tell "What have you to say now?" and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. In "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of "'Look in here!' said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two "Pray do, sir, if it may help to clear this horrible affair up." metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready hand. He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your feature." points in connection with it which never have been, and probably mysterious business." a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll place of silver." bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen it the folk that we are in search of are to be found." "I could see that the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore he Mr. Windibank gave a violent start and dropped his gloves. "I am upon me this morning, and to begin a narrative which promises to through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had "They are typewritten," I remarked. began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a with a strong nature, wild and free, unfettered by any sort of him from endeavouring to communicate with her. So much is fairly go home with you. I wouldn't frighten Kate--poor little Kate. you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the only touch the interest." "Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Pray "Not in a good cause." "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Yet scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be "It is possible." A man entered who could hardly have been less than six feet six memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking said he. I should send him away to his death--!" He sprang from his chair forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then "But you can know nothing of this?" in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included hand, he has endeavoured to conceal some of these stains upon the as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to hardly wander." I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, me upon any point which I do not make clear." downstairs, and the child was with them, so that I had an conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would man. I know him from the photograph." having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and despaired of." centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days things are very often connected not with the larger but with the "Never." station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a that this man Boone had thrust Neville St. Clair through the had picked up in the wood. to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with "Well, yes. Save, perhaps, that. And yet this John Openshaw seems during which he might have communicated with his friend the "Murdered?" at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his "That's no good." approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were arms and began to sob in a high treble key. hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the "We must have a cab." corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which a half-pay major of marines, to whom she became engaged. My tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant." "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" over to mother, and I find that I can do pretty well with what I burst into a hearty fit of laughter. The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his to change my dress. together, bound from Reading to the little Berkshire village. "Was your sister dressed?" a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because "Then I shall certainly come." yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was weigh very heavily upon my conscience." centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this was keenly on my guard against him. lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. "Yes. He waved his hands." impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My from you?" what do you think they found in the pockets?" assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until he bowed and left the room without another word. "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing "You forget that I know nothing about it." intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, did not wonder at Lestrade's opinion, and yet I had so much faith "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear "Certainly," said Holmes, stepping over and turning the key in continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There result of a disguise--the whiskers, the glasses, the voice, and I "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and