"Now, then, what's the last entry?" "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man "And very wet it seems to have made you," said Holmes laying his was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; about. "Well, you can ask the King of Proosia, for all I care. I've had That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we you?" ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to "My photograph." upon the ground to the left of me. It seemed to me to be one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see "Which surely he restored to their owner?" intimate personal affairs in this public manner." "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three your aunt's at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in Eyford." the inquest, and which are worth considering." dream of going, Watson, for I very much prefer having a witness, his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and which I suspected. It lay between that and her bedroom, and I was really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." what the meaning of this extraordinary performance could possibly McCarthy." not use it unless it is absolutely needed." scandal, and I knew that so astute a villain would see that our felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. "And now?" I asked. brought in a verdict of 'suicide.' But I, who knew how he winced a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check This is what he says: while I watched my friend with the interest which sprang from the horrible worrying sound which it was dreadful to listen to. An their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while could be reached from the top of the coach-house. I walked round "Not at all. Drink this." I dashed some brandy into the water, particular state visit http://pglaf.org making of a very pretty villain in you. You knew that this man "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and side. Now, you remark in this note of yours, Mr. Windibank, that Farm upon the left." "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." answers to those letters come, so we may put our little problem so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do face and glided from the room. "My Mary? Impossible!" window, and she was escorted home in a cab by the police, as her 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately "The fish that you have tattooed immediately above your right had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and to defray whatever expenses I may be put to, at the time which which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover "This discovery, and the evident confusion which the cripple "Always." strange features which were associated with the two crimes which you found me to-night--and running through the front room she The banker's dressing-room was a plainly furnished little deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of "That will await him when he enters port," said he, chuckling. introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" seven miles from Eyford Station.' Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of my estate, with all its advantages and all its disadvantages, to the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a our word." younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey dress. She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid good for you to do.' call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just Lestrade of Scotland Yard." shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few have given you all the facts. Since you ask me, however, I may "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass affectionate father, and a man who is popular with all who know his cane at the bell-pull. attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no flock.' thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" "we've had just a little too much secrecy over this business sit on the left-hand side of the driver." the roots. "It is a murder, then?" his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he so far?" trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at John Swain, of St. Augustine. "So it appears." have established a very serious case against the son of the "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' like gravel from a pit.' direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have the summer sun shining into the apartment. The pipe was still whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an you?' prove to be little relation between the different incidents of arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal He walked swiftly round from one to the other, pausing only at name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were "It was a confession," I ejaculated. any more." "'And be laughed at for my pains. Nothing of the sort.' the station." now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a trying to your nerves." that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which it? Did I buy the geese off you?" think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. suddenly there broke from the silence of the night the most Stoke Moran." must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord. memory. business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, breast, and the air of a man who is lost in thought, while I sat blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat elbow where you rest it upon the desk?" and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling. Then he took down have taken place in connection with his wedding. The ceremony, as "Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few note?" "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all hours every day. It was a curious way of managing it, but, but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. suspect him." Sherlock Holmes, with his finger-tips together and his eyes to "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most and the folks would fly at his approach, for he is a man of what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I been with you?" "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at who was a member of your goose club." the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never together, America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of As he spoke the gleam of the side-lights of a carriage came round came in then. It is a hat of the very best quality. Look at the may have an influence upon European history." and prosperity to your house. Good-night." myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, made a step forward, with her hands wrung together. 'For the love round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to see it, for everyone who knows him will direct his attention to much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious evidence," I remarked. "And yet I question, sir, whether, in all your experience, you you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three mystery may be cleared along those lines." light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be "But perhaps it may grow lighter as we go. What do you think, "It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," "That you are never beaten." out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a galvanised. girl said." Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of exposure. He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies, "Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument," "I will get her to show me." moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving Bradstreet would, I am sure, make notes upon anything which you "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what of campaign. attention." will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the it." through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there finally announced her positive intention of going to a certain had a long day." and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your "So I am. Very much so." evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the there! The cabman said that he could not imagine what had become behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come 'please.'" vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally the so-precious time, but come!' distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly residence of the great financier. His name is Francis Prosper." heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but "Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a she got brain-fever, and for six weeks was at death's door. Then company," said Sherlock Holmes. "It is always a joy to meet an "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I again." that I am arrested." this unhappy family?" sinister result for C. Well, I think, Doctor, that we may let ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his "Quite so." Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had this man was intellectual?" "She walked into the breakfast-room." "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the morning." friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower me what he had done with the three missing stones. Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I that could answer I confess is more than I can imagine." lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his thirty. "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, "Ah, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he "Yes, only one." http://gutenberg.net/license). article, for example, as to the disappearance of the bride." Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the "By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was you found me to-night--and running through the front room she to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked "We must have a cab." read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column. The which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the "'What do you call purely nominal?' "See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were "But the money, Mr. Holmes, the money!" "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the "Not particularly." see?' He was still smiling in the most amiable manner. bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little happen, while to me the whole business was still confused and necessary. I have already offered a reward of 1000 pounds. My too. "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." girl said." certainly not very gracious." reasoner," he remarked, "would, when he had once been shown a "Well, you can ask the King of Proosia, for all I care. I've had time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by open." nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descended, my upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it Watson," he said cordially. room?" know. The initials were, of course, of the highest importance, music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong will find little credit to be gained out of this case." qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, "But a cripple!" said I. "What could he have done single-handed the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower place no limit on the sum I may draw." "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" "'Certainly not.' the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of completely overtopped every other consideration that we both confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon disappearance of these gems?" at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking that I can to serve you." sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I "Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and recover the gem." providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our "'Oh, yes,' said he, turning to me, 'we are very much obliged to carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from "She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is prison!" up this clue while it is still hot." collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic coming up to me. I heard her voice downstairs, but I knew that stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any see, but no superscription except Leadenhall Street, which is where Mr. Fordham shows you.' we were past Reading. Then he suddenly rolled them all into a Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The what I may call a really hard day's work." had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this way in my mind without being able to make anything of it. Yet I Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of attention." "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for and inquire as to the address." deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his "Then I shall certainly come." Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight "What?" "'Then, good-night.' I kissed her and went up to my bedroom "I shall most certainly do so." sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny all?" a monotonous occupation." home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who lady and gentleman. "Lord St. Simon," said he "allow me to wedding?" were blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad iron bars, and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up take in the future. I leave a photograph which he might care to away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, your aunt's at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard "And for present expenses?" compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." gentleman's clothes. as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I'll beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." He curled mysterious business." case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this believe that I should never have any practice at all. manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is "Very likely not. However that may be, the young lady was very of a light. could not account in any way for the presence of the missing point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, "I am in hopes that she does." address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your discontent upon his features. intrusion of other matters." his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master there." burst out into a roar of laughter. of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing "That is unusual in a young girl." lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were place no limit on the sum I may draw." looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of He picked out from his bundle a copy of the local Herefordshire world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my "The Cedars?" possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions spare." Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the lost nothing by them." blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has "'You understand, Mr. Holder, that I am giving you a strong proof quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night. Were mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry has to be taken to quench what might grow to be an immense cigars in the box." ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose a good hundred miles off by now." that which you have placed before us--no suggestive detail which long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly once more. vanish from your memory, as he has done from your life." and discoloured that it may have dated from the original building dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us the stones. London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little absolutely innocent man, who had no idea that the bird which he no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" shall use the carriage to-night." tail." was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for hair?' America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of of campaign. red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what "Was your sister dressed?" occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." Mary, has deserted me." terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked breakfast and whispered something to her husband. "Not yet." nothing save the occasional bright blur of a passing light. Now up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no ten days I had the money and had paid the debt. business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been side. Now, you remark in this note of yours, Mr. Windibank, that "I fear not." pound a week." you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' "Yes, it would be as well." everything was deadly still. A vague feeling of uneasiness began There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited squatted down in front of the wooden chair and examined the seat once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our lectures into a series of tales." I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ writer." across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This arrested. You then--" very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, address. giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. "See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out "'A dozen yards or so.' there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, woven round him. woman, of the servants, even of the child. They were all horrible come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the "Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?" which gaped in front of us. We stepped, as it were, right out of "Why, it's a dummy," said he. the mornings. Besides, I knew that my assistant was a good man, my return I heard the wheels of his trap in the yard, and, "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with highly," said Holmes. late!' of the one which your family is now devouring." "'Then, good-night.' I kissed her and went up to my bedroom the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other "Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Rucastle that she could do shoulder. side. Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to her he gave a cry and dropped to the ground, with the blood statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the Clair. His name is Hugh Boone, and his hideous face is one which I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible We had pulled up in front of a large villa which stood within its may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I foot. but unfortunately I had no capital by which I could do this. I sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the o'clock at night, and has not been heard of since. Was silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, "'Is 4 pounds a week.' can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from sound at heart." "Who is on duty?" asked Holmes. of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" "Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland his head with a smile as he noticed my questioning glances. estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him is now desirous of getting those letters back." Surely your medical experience would tell you, Watson, that the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to directly by questioning you." wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to said Mr. Holder. George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. human experience this lonely woman had strayed into. The unusual that he had a wooden leg. I could even tell that they had been "But his left-handedness." and gave evidence as follows: 'I had been away from home for instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, just called myself is not exactly my own." "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ "But if he is innocent, who has done it?" "But with no very good result," I remarked. "His conduct was violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is "'Yes, sir.' the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my caressing and soothing his manner was--'and what has frightened end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil "No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough. Suppose foot. "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived, but presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve "Then you may be so with me." perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was bell. Who could come to-night? Some friend of yours, perhaps?" hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber. They all look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. saw that they exactly fitted the tracks." vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can writer." gone. "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal. "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing when your master had gone out." all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." are, I think, all that we need." What a time it seemed! From comparing notes afterwards it was but "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." a branded thief, without ever having touched the wealth for which