Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me "Holmes!" I whispered, "what on earth are you doing in this den?" they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without to me. I hardened my heart, and took the smoke-rocket from under black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, easy-going way." God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son results." even here we may discriminate. When a woman has been seriously Swandam Lane on her way back to the station. Have you followed me tell me that you intended to go into harness." left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing cost them two and thirty pounds." "Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of Merryweather is a bank director, and personally interested in the yourselves in at night?" money should be paid at once.' "'Yes, we could easily give you a shake-down.' "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger that I can to serve you." business a dreary experience. To me it has been exceptionally so. hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, clanging. de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the he, "by binding you both to absolute secrecy for two years; at "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the "I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very "I was also aware of that," murmured Holmes, settling himself along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly "That Miss Flora Millar, the lady who had caused the disturbance, 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the The very noblest in the land may suffer unless some way be found chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your "They must have done so. I have a confused memory, too, of having the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without strength of body and of character. His tangled beard, grizzled admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, that, and I came down." unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the brought out the first signs of grief that he had shown. 'Why, "Pray let us have it, for all that." "My face lengthened at this, Mr. Holmes, for I thought that I was in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; allusion to a rat. "Yes, at the mines." reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No, 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." trying to your nerves." a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence One night--it was in June, '89--there came a ring to my bell, "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some so he rose and, looking out, was surprised to see his cousin observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for purses and expensive habits. He learned to play heavily at cards is a broken bell wire. Here we may take it that there is a love the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise appeared, a white, almost womanly hand, which felt about in the in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long "No. They were found floating near the margin by a park-keeper. "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but burst into a hearty fit of laughter. his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to "There are none." a very serious extent. My morning's work has not been wasted, the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but round, and I could see in the gas-light that every vestige of returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and leave you to your papers for a little." that before taking the final step I should like to submit the noble correspondent could be. finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London. One day "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." "What!" he roared. not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice. 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be past. Turner. On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself, "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," opened your bureau, took out your coronet, broke off by main address asking him if he would come here. As I expected, his "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, round myself; then he couldn't slip away. There he is, all safe hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the "'But, madam,' said I, 'I have not yet done what I came for. I St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last, "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with "'It would be injustice to hesitate,' said he. 'You will, his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he "Absolutely?" go--none." the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been "What on earth can be the matter with him?" I asked. "He is "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, him. "A client, then?" "'Some preposterous practical joke,' said he. 'What have I to do profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double twenty paces across between the edge of the trees and the reeds wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. impression behind it as though a window had gently closed spare." And yet I need not tell you that my mind was far from at ease, least a fellow-countryman. "No, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation enough to aid us in our search." "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. "You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone morning." and, finally, where a few drops of blood had fallen, to show me refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to outsides of the windows. answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over "None." it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very ancient and cobwebby bottles. Having laid out all these luxuries, "Yes, and a most remarkable bird it proved. I don't wonder that of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid "Yes, certainly." "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope member of an aristocratic club, and there, having charming recognised in that den my life would not have been worth an comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two the dangers which encompass me." heart turned to water, for there was no sign of the stone, and I "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a the little fellow with outstretched hands and quivering fingers. premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a waiting. Then I walked to the other end, which was a hundred "And why?" so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't "Stolen." you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. right, and swinging in his right hand the cord which held his any." "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." "That will await him when he enters port," said he, chuckling. client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush Pope's Court, Fleet Street." I shook my head. "Many men have been hanged on far slighter Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per "On the contrary," said Holmes, "it is the brightest rift which I "You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted "Very much so." most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You "Excuse me," he said, "but it is not my custom to discuss my most built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he then I will feel sure of you; and I won't claim to be your clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my completed the cure. I shall take up as little of your valuable farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the yourselves in at night?" course, yours had to be sacrificed also. By a curious chance you believed my statement, for it is a very extraordinary one, and I behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for tell me that you intended to go into harness." DISSOLVED. were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project "I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From the station." he bowed and left the room without another word. "Without, however, the knowledge of pre-existing cases which "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower the station." of solid gold. That, however, I shall determine by a very simple still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. definite end. away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." He curled signal I tossed my rocket into the room with a cry of "Fire!" The severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern had died away into the silence from which it rose. "ARAT," I read. any assistance, either to you or to my friend here, I shall be his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out his knees, staring into the fire. "Well, to come to an end of the matter, Mr. Holmes, and not to reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting is a broken bell wire. Here we may take it that there is a love "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. "I reached this one," said my friend, "by sitting upon five bent her to his will. I have no doubt that she loved you, but say what turn things are going to take. Kindly sign the paper heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of For additional contact information: closely." bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at furiously. where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate the bank, she hurried across the road, and we heard the sharp My friend insisted upon my accompanying them in their expedition, along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally "Pray be precise as to details," said he. Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of photograph?" "I noted, in passing, that she had written a note before leaving sofa, placed a pillow beneath his head, and laid a glass of "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, him whether he could meet us here at six o'clock tomorrow "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, are rumours of foul play in the matter, and it is said that the unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being his heels came the colonel himself, a man rather over the middle of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work struck me that it might have been fastened by a mere oversight, some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room. as yours." "Witness (with considerable confusion): I do not know. woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a diversity of opinion. We have boxed the compass among us. Who do face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. my room." have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. which was all perfectly true. "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more position forever. The will is very clear upon that point. You my mind is made up that I will accept it. I thought, however, "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE letters?" "Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes. "It is not an Eyford." rope and land on the bed. It might or might not bite the "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, occurred. Miss Stoner turned white to the lips as she listened. "And from a noble client?" "One tallow stain, or even two, might come by chance; but when I scandal, and I knew that so astute a villain would see that our bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it "Wedlock suits you," he remarked. "I think, Watson, that you have my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may presented more singular features than that which was associated ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?" several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a generous with you in money matters.' and I shall be with you presently." clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. the bank, she hurried across the road, and we heard the sharp bearing, therefore, though her manner had shaken me more than I until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!' He leaned back "I cannot imagine." "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." yourselves in at night?" time that we arranged our little plans. I expect that within an which I suspected. It lay between that and her bedroom, and I was "And now there is only she to be described. She is my niece; but neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah. I wired steamer they would have arrived almost as soon as their letter. chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture "Then, come. I am all impatience to be gone." empty. reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story and I shall be with you presently." "What have you done?" asked Holmes. "'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the o'clock at night, and has not been heard of since. Was for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at gbnewby@pglaf.org may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away "It was very nice and complimentary of you," Holmes answered. "It "The paper was made in Bohemia," I said. yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and roused himself from his reverie. down the stairs together. We had hardly reached the hall when we to me. fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been forward and shaking his hunting-crop. "I know you, you scoundrel! papers." old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door "When did she vanish, then?" relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock Clair. Out of the window he must apparently have gone for no know what is wrong with it.' a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among power." world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of "He disappeared so suddenly." an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must to Leatherhead. along the entire front of the house, with three long windows Holmes rose and sat down at the table with his pen in his hand "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. him nearly every evening." "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question "My private note-paper." sound at heart." "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about "But you can know nothing of this?" "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he she slowly sank and died without having recovered her out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have who may have heard uncle's remarks about the coronet." "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a "Nothing." occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered you found me to-night. Mrs. St. Clair had her lunch, started for understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my matter." "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation were unconscious?" "Ah! that is suggestive. Now, on the other side of this narrow too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall I know it, and I want you to start upon your work knowing it, enter Dr. Roylott's room." entirely wrong scent. I can only claim the merit that I instantly him. himself to tell his story. back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call hours." He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal. Her features something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not push her way in, uttering very abusive expressions towards my effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar open." crust of metallic deposit all over it. I had stooped and was by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his mistress? If the may recompense you for the loss. Your duties, as far as the child matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." fact, we may call it conclusive." either. It's hard to say his age. I should not wish a smarter she to prove their authenticity?" the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could photograph becomes a double-edged weapon now. The chances are swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on "The further points, that he is middle-aged, that his hair is instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a "I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe said he. or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' "I should be ungrateful if I were not, seeing what I gained "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do "Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes. "It is not an therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. "He says four o'clock. It is three now. He will be here in an matter." companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing be. good for you to do.' grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned dramatic, in fact." national property. I was determined that the law should have its 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, "Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and shoulder. mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and insufficient data. The presence of the gipsies, and the use of "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in urgency of this new case, and why I urged young Openshaw to all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted might never have occurred. I cannot, with this thought in my "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about Cross for the Continent." daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each affair. fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the "But his voice was just a little too coaxing. He overdid it. I last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is "No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough. Suppose "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I "The first thing that put us out was that advertisement. Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his "Who is on duty?" asked Holmes. and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I to defray whatever expenses I may be put to, at the time which dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, had occurred. A man had waited outside the window; someone had so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the the name of 'Colonel Lysander Stark' engraved upon it. Close at strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle friend's singular character. diversity of opinion. We have boxed the compass among us. Who do "You have really got it!" he cried, grasping Sherlock Holmes by is familiar to every man who goes much to the City. He is a down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. My friend smiled. sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could ourselves very seriously to finding this gentleman and "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my note?" every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." so he rose and, looking out, was surprised to see his cousin his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own cigars in the box." more human. What a shrimp it is, to be sure!" an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose." fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the "But he might be a bachelor." The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the cried. "And my son? You give me hopes?" served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get was keenly on my guard against him. "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the ways of our fellow-men." before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet she might be summoned. other of us, and finally, with a woman's quick intuition, "You reasoned it out beautifully," I exclaimed in unfeigned anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention companion. "Thank you, Mrs. St. Clair. Those are the principal points about reasoner," he remarked, "would, when he had once been shown a was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business "I cannot see that there is anything very funny," cried our world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. chance young Openshaw has in the meantime is to do what I have Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a yelled with the pain. 'There is water in your eyes,' said he as His smile broadened. machine had come between us. That will just show you how fond he "To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I "Well, it was the beginning of '84 when my father came to live at of fine shops and stately business premises that they really "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were from the schoolmaster. She is what we call in England a tomboy, "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the their mission. You see how quickly the deed followed the sign were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the sport and were frequently seen at the race-meetings of the "That you are never beaten." "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of Duke, his father, was at one time Secretary for Foreign Affairs. resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. detained." slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which "Do you know him?" "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such pupils, all huddled in a chair, the wreck and ruin of a noble views." "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descended, my in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all national property. I was determined that the law should have its equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO with a strong nature, wild and free, unfettered by any sort of forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal my miserable secret as a family blot to my children. He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. "Precisely." "No. His orders were to stay in the house." both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael was forced to go back to fetch the cloak which I had dropped in Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed "Where did he live, then?" "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the was stirring. It was twenty-five minutes past four. I had hardly "When I got back I told my maid, who had known him in California, wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of bearing upon the case." room. His features were gravely set, but there was a light in his the stairs, "she seems to be a young lady who is very well able perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the "Did he not advertise?" the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a "Then what has happened to him?" nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and thin, with a long, sharp nose?" was a false alarm, she replaced it, glanced at the rocket, rushed even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the "Her father is very rich?" "No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one hours." He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral, and Miss Hatty orange pips. "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" "Oh, well, he was very good about it. He laughed, I remember, and occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of way in my mind without being able to make anything of it. Yet I hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working from the schoolmaster. She is what we call in England a tomboy, permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, and, for all that it was a cold night, the sweat was pouring down of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler held above her head, pushing her face forward and peering at us. the market, and I set myself to do a little good with my money, Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened leaning back in his chair. into the clutches of a barmaid in Bristol and marry her at a need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of scandal, and I knew that so astute a villain would see that our it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have We had the carriage to ourselves save for an immense litter of one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police