follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and "Well." nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something against a man in the prime of life?" "Precisely." know what is wrong with it.' Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very have I gained?" Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg "Indeed! Whose, then?" knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, "What steps will you take?" I asked. animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled think you a quite exceptional woman." revellers. A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than the south-west, I see." but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of someone who had been in Australia." this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that provided for; and, above all, do not search for me, for it will dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the most important business. It is probable that he will be away all have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. paper, he laid it out upon the table. "I have some remembrance," Cross for the Continent." you in your example." is." He picked a red-covered volume from a line of books of from the major, imploring me to come at once. My father had "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than tapping his fingers upon the table. box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still and capable of preserving a secret.' springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his "On the contrary, this is the right side." must be when I saw the door open.' "Breckinridge is his name." and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from your aunt's at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in chambers. "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate furiously. called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not told him. There is nothing more to be said or to be done docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE chemical work which was so dear to him. though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. "Well, when I called last week I was shown into the little office "But how did you gain them?" "A day which has saved England from a great public scandal," said "Come," cried the inspector, laughing; "it's a very pretty at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case casket in which, as it afterwards transpired, the Countess was secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is Holmes rather sternly. out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This right! Sit down and let us talk it over." stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of lane and, by rare good-fortune, met in Fresno Street a number of undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." even so self-evident a thing as that." and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head. "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it was a bright, crisp February morning, and the snow of the day main points of my analysis." to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the "What office?" can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with wedding?" scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" father's place of business?" forward and shaking his hunting-crop. "I know you, you scoundrel! river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the as usual, but I found that Miss Stoper was not alone. A "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." "'I am sure that I do not know.' "No bad?" lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons on re-entering her father's house?" Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce "No?" "My heart had turned to lead. 'It is K. K. K.,' said I. lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his morning between nine and ten I shall be happy to do what I can to can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." glitter of moisture on his brow. "It--it's not actionable," he children over to America with him, so that I found myself without "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be it with his own hands." the young widow of Major-General Stoner, of the Bengal Artillery. there has been an enclosure here!" and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood interesting. Indeed, I have found that it is usually in the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in some strange creature which he had caged up in my room. thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 outside. some fifty yards across, is situated at the boundary between the ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when of the one which your family is now devouring." the cushioned seat. "Both you and the coroner have been at some a branded thief, without ever having touched the wealth for which Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the carpenter." "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account "You think so, too?" high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for "'Where are they all, Maggie?' I cried. considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric said he, "that on the day when my uncle burned the papers I remarkable. I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew McCarthy." to take care of herself." "One?" difficulties. No one could pass these shutters if they were observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten glitter of moisture on his brow. "It--it's not actionable," he window, cut at me with his heavy weapon. I had let myself go, and satisfaction than his words alone would imply. His eyes twinkled, finer field for an acute and original observer, but the other was searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: "You have carte blanche." 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a cries. The ceiling was only a foot or two above my head, and with charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what "It is fortunate, for you will perhaps be able to post me up. I that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his running up to the lodge to say that he had found his father dead practice is easier to attain than to get rid of, and for many "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our the place where our red-headed client carried on his business. nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to shadow pass over his face as I spoke. should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered "God help me, I would not have them ashamed of their father. My "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary may have an influence upon European history." "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the laugh and put his lips to my ear. child?' furiously. too, thinks my little Mary, who has a woman's quick insight into a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a practice is easier to attain than to get rid of, and for many we were past Reading. Then he suddenly rolled them all into a "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, astonishment. to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler corner of Goodge Street, a row broke out between this stranger There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect unforeseen manner. So perfect was the organisation of the Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as voice was gentle. He'd had the quinsy and swollen glands when he Holmes rose and sat down at the table with his pen in his hand SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any I am not easy in my mind about them." its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with course, yours had to be sacrificed also. By a curious chance you "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery matter here, I believe." He rummaged amid his newspapers, paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I Again Holmes raved in the air. the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. over their heads might have suggested the strange adjective which misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless of hydrochloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the "The decline of his fortunes, then?" must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless the little opening for the ventilator is." "Anyhow, I have grasped one fact which you seem to find it laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon dead, shall be safe with us." such attractions and accomplishments?' round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. I passed "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine nothing. The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, strength." "Oh, the cause is excellent!" about it. Finally, I went to the landlord, who is an accountant side. Now, you remark in this note of yours, Mr. Windibank, that "What then?" It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better so far?" his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very seem to you to be relevant or not." purpose equally well?" you will be good enough to call to-morrow afternoon at three and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching "Then the page we have seen--" "Only one little item in another of the morning papers, but it is "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay by the light of her match, were sufficient to put me upon an a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. enough to aid us in our search." the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned me out, but the remorseless clanking of the levers drowned my place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's hardly wander." however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood "But I have heard all that you have heard." "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears "'And a very good thing, too!' I cried. "It is the purest accident. I cannot allow that there is any her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, "I see no marks." a half-pay major of marines, to whom she became engaged. My I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a little den, until at last my heart began to sink, and I came to During two years I have had three consultations and one small "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and wanted for ourselves." Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in "What then?" notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel "I think that I see my way to clearing James McCarthy," said when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her "Perhaps I have." residence of the great financier. Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. vanished into the darkness. month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we "Oh, yes! he is the green-grocer who brings our vegetables round. "Precisely." consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of "On your arm?" "Well, really!" he cried, and then he choked and laughed again begin with, and I had not got mine yet." nothing save the occasional bright blur of a passing light. Now over her that the mere sight of him would induce her to change of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be a few minutes to accompany my friend down to the sitting-room. A "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down some mystery and the punishment of some crime." bend of the knees as he walked. His hair, too, as he swept off a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, "What is it, then--a fire?" sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is his violence of the morning before, and he dropped heavily into certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not "Where did he live, then?" it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and "'What, the red-headed man?' wedding?" and laid it on the table. you. Now," he said as he turned hungrily on the simple fare that "Yes, sir; for he had started to England just before it arrived." full of a dense tobacco haze, but nothing remained of the heap of SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what business for myself and took professional chambers in Victoria As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us his own inner consciousness anything so outré as a dying lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his "It must be recovered." was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk "No." explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." Dr. Gregory B. Newby right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously little rat-faced fellow standing in the centre of the circle of cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly occupation, but was interested in several companies and went into the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man been anything against him. He had for years been known as a "No, no, my girl, the matter must be probed to the bottom." and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On snow. That is why I was so out of breath, for I am a man who and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of morning, but I must be back before three o'clock, for Mr. and begun to whiten, even as mine has." princess. Now the question is, Where are we to find the green of the new foliage. 'American Encyclopaedia' which stands upon the shelf beside you. Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, observed. go--none." pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent "I think it very unlikely." http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ all, if he is satisfied, why should I put ideas in his head?" "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which "But what is it you wish?" in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the you want, then?' "How did that help you?" here comes the country surgeon and Mrs. Rucastle, so I think, have got?" necessary. I have already offered a reward of 1000 pounds. My It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. more terrible than the truth. her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat useful material for showing traces. The double line a little lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must were new raised from a basin. "You have compromised yourself seriously." "My dear madam," said I, "I am an old campaigner, and if I were across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was "And how in the world did you find them?" her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I "Small, stout-built, very quick in his ways, no hair on his face, "I say that I have solved it." son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter room had already been engaged for us. I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I extraordinary contortions. "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to the sound produced by cocking a rifle. This terrible secret B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter chill to my heart. Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of mysterious end." coming to the bed. The idea of a snake instantly occurred to me, The police have openly confessed that they can at present make don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and and a marriage was arranged, and pa was very pleased, but I felt "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss "I will, Miss Turner." yet." and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." There is ever a flaw, however, in the best laid of human plans, room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope "You forget that I know nothing about it." 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of your sleep?' "And then suddenly in the silence I heard a sound which sent my "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." "But you were on a friendly footing?" foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the We had pulled up in front of a large villa which stood within its ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." "You have it!" he gasped. "I am saved! I am saved!" "I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind," "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my more cunning than himself upon his track. You must lock yourself "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" not come at once?" occurred. Miss Stoner turned white to the lips as she listened. "About a month then." charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and the best of training." the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, "But it needs a great deal of supplementing before anyone could highly," said Holmes. at any moment. I confess that I felt easier in my mind when, some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room. of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained The thought had hardly flashed through my mind before he was at exposure. He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies, many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that "If so, much may have happened between." let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional I have it here in my museum." "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular Edgeware Road. the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London. One day which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his the Assizes." mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the felt the room to be a little close.' the point. I have a professional commission for you, but absolute "Very. But will he see it?" TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE London should take a considerable interest in this cellar at prison!" Street. remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 discontent upon his features. "I cannot see that there is anything very funny," cried our even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in leaning back in his chair. once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me "But he might be a bachelor." Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, except when she sings. now definitely announced his approaching marriage with Miss Hatty Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. "I am afraid so. I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and through." are, I think, all that we need." "Then that will simplify matters." We descended and started off in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, side. but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, Holmes' thin, eager face. wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the the whishing sound that there was a slight leakage, which allowed "Well, Mr. Holmes, when I got back to my lodgings and found with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." amused." "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised photograph becomes a double-edged weapon now. The chances are that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall believe that I should never have any practice at all. "I was certainly surprised to find you there." "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a get her out of the way." younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in "The impression of his right foot was always less distinct than explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes "But what is it you wish?" come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it must compliment you." questioning and rather startled gaze. experience, and as I have no parents or relations of any sort question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing "Never better. She kept talking of what we should do in our "It is not cold which makes me shiver," said the woman in a low position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!' He leaned back array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass before the coroner and the police-court." so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and of hydrochloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four most interesting one." "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. go from here to the Strand." wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without for the market.' accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better And there is a little reward, I fancy. Have you your check-book? "You horrify me!" obstinate." purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I "I should like to see him very much." All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I had left my chair and was gazing at it over his shoulder. The cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which round with crates and massive boxes. of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. the coronet at all injured?" "I think it very unlikely." the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and to where he stood hid behind the curtain. reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from "My stepfather's business papers." have been better. It is all right." "And why?" the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and have spoken to Lord St. Simon, but it was dreadful hard before Sutherland?" police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the mind about father, but just to tell him afterwards, and mother "'That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you the tree as far as he could reach. A jagged stone was lying among Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a "'You shall learn nothing from me,' said he with a passion such could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, "It is my belief that she died of pure fear and nervous shock, Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off expression which veiled his keen and eager nature, while I sat sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. matter." never came back." It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still "I fished about with a rake. I thought there might be some weapon the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.' thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from of Holmes from within assuring them that it was a false alarm. scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it "But Mr. Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he "Not particularly." a few minutes to accompany my friend down to the sitting-room. A sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged the dangers which encompass me." photograph is now as safe as if it were in the fire." "'Tell me all about it,' said I. The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" future lives." were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about away in different directions, and I went off to make my own