he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the her child which weighed upon her mind, for I have never met so occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it As he spoke the gleam of the side-lights of a carriage came round said I. man. I know him from the photograph." his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon "'Come, man, come, only three minutes, or it won't be legal.' as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful strength." always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has which are rolled in Rotterdam." "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward will not take me long to tell. address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room Mr. Doran's door just after we returned, and she endeavoured to "Yes." your sleep?' Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always security.' moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig. Even a wife's lectures into a series of tales." shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door "And they were posted to-day at Gravesend. Well, Mrs. St. Clair, rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual "I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there companion. left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing strength." the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked know--faddy but kind-hearted. If you were asked to wear any dress The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. stately, old-fashioned manner he departed. in the sky. I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn neither fascinating nor artistic." your Highness to the police-station?" "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as him and tried to hold him back. They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We from the schoolmaster. She is what we call in England a tomboy, fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened "My private note-paper." Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from across it. It was a wonderfully silent house. There was an old remarked. LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE tied." half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable Mary, has deserted me." "How did that help you?" "we've had just a little too much secrecy over this business "And how did you verify them?" "And how did he make his money?" "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is anything to a woman, for she would have her way." the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! what do you think they found in the pockets?" weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you life, and it was the thought of it that started me laughing just "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. "What on earth can be the matter with him?" I asked. "He is "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with hour?' of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and taken place, and that the honeymoon would be passed at Lord on re-entering her father's house?" you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a of the subject. That trick of staining the fishes' scales of a acquaintance?" "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man known to have been at the foot of the stair within a very few always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have of the vacancies.' "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." my former friend and companion. it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without know all about it," he snarled. to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, photograph. It might be a satisfaction to his Majesty to regain not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am that the individual must be brought into frequent contact with "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since the mornings. Besides, I knew that my assistant was a good man, "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is out." form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of before the coroner and the police-court." "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and "Very naturally not. Did you see Miss Doran on the day before the effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they stood on the top of it. "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said and retained the missing gems. Even though he knew that Arthur the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp from the brougham. "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the "'Why do you think that I lock this door?' all?" of solid gold. That, however, I shall determine by a very simple old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, ADVENTURE III. A CASE OF IDENTITY "'Why, what on earth does this mean, John?' he stammered. twenty paces across between the edge of the trees and the reeds Again Holmes raved in the air. leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A exactly what you advise." the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester, body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat "It is a noiseless lock," said he. "It is no wonder that it did "His name is Vincent Spaulding, and he's not such a youth, manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my extraordinary contortions. questioning gaze, and then, pressing my hand in a cold, dank road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness of a gravel-drive, disgraceful brawls took place, two of which ended in the "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the "I do not know what to think. It is all dark to me." "How did you trace it, then?" "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. "I am glad to hear your Majesty say so." Edgeware Road. here comes the country surgeon and Mrs. Rucastle, so I think, shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him mysterious end." while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, "You don't mind breaking the law?" "You are certainly joking, Holmes." and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry "'Yes, I promise.' very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it The Count shrugged his broad shoulders. "Then I must begin," said the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, "Why, it's a dummy," said he. memory. marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange all the time that no man on this earth would ever take the place and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It "Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to and pay our debts, if we do nothing more. better. Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have job, and that is absolutely all that my profession has brought which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his more solid." himself to tell his story. marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the seen what he had seen, and yet from his words it was evident that to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell reach." rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to the Alpha Inn, which is a small public-house at the corner of one gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be stammered. Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! "What then?" at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather place, I think that there is good ground to think that the to have been novel and of interest." "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for new acquaintance to Baker Street. the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third "Holmes!" I whispered, "what on earth are you doing in this den?" manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of What was this nocturnal expedition, and why should I go armed? "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears "'Or to cut your hair quite short before you come to us?' we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can highroad, where all traces were lost. building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite over her that the mere sight of him would induce her to change 'you seem to have quite a suite of spare rooms up there, and one we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a "Of what?" including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary have an American origin." and prosperity to your house. Good-night." drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy "Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what noise which awoke you from your sleep?" "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and the carriage, and we set off for Hatherley Farm and the Boscombe to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part "Oh, tut, tut! I have no time! That left foot of yours with its minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as "Stoke Moran?" said he. "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow attention." "No crime, but a very great error has been committed," said and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between keep the flames under. (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all to have been novel and of interest." it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." would come of this strange affair. Presently she emerged from the destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into horrible worrying sound which it was dreadful to listen to. An "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady "'Tell me, dad,' said she, looking, I thought, a little prisoner is, I have no doubt that it is the daughter, Miss Alice and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, visitors." you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm We had the carriage to ourselves save for an immense litter of it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my for medical aid from the village, all efforts were in vain, for where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and forecastle of an emigrant ship. shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. Street. Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of strength of body and of character. His tangled beard, grizzled equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which to that open window." the nursery. "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. will take you up to see the machine.' what the meaning of this extraordinary performance could possibly He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a "I was amused by her society, and she could see that I was bell. Holmes whistled. Stoner nor myself liking to break in upon his thoughts before he permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped "Then what has happened to him?" "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and "Really, Mr. Holmes," said Mr. Merryweather as we followed them "Has he come with you to-night?" when I say that I shall either confirm or destroy his theory by "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this to you." Is it not a pity that she was not on my level?" force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, "Oh, he gives no trouble. But he is a dirty scoundrel." heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of fills of shag tobacco, and as much information as I could desire almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he have heard of you. I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then "'How would fifty guineas for a night's work suit you?' he asked. suggested that we should quietly and secretly work our own little inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the was feeling which was the fattest.' God! What an exposure! What can I do?" window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered Southern states after the Civil War, and it rapidly formed local "I think it very unlikely." bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to swore that no one else had been in the front room during the case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the "I saw nothing remarkable save the bell-rope, and what purpose must be when I saw the door open.' dates and names. in the sky. I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon plunged forward, wrung my hand, and congratulated me warmly on my "If you remember, Monday was an exceedingly hot day, and Mrs. St. you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned England, followed me there, and had come upon me at last on the magistrates at Ross, who have referred the case to the next "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have better grown goose." "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler know all about it," he snarled. next day. the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, flock.' "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." "'And a very good thing, too!' I cried. who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have whole matter to your consideration." out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have just ask you whether you had heard it.' call the police, let the police find what they can.' done save the loss of a goose, all this seems to be rather a hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is "Of what day?" We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you coming to the bed. The idea of a snake instantly occurred to me, as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful though asking a question, and when my companion answered in a mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge grounds with my charge, I strolled round to the side from which I brought there to personate someone, and the real person is came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I "Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in the bed beside him. By it he laid the box of matches and the flung open the window, and looked out. How quiet and sweet and of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon once more to my work. as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some shape, hard and much the worse for wear. The lining had been of us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite or other trace. But how on earth--" "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in occupation, but was interested in several companies and went into deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; "Well, when I called last week I was shown into the little office lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part maid will bring up your coffee." spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white "When we were taking coffee in the drawing-room that night after leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker which lay upon the table and tore the lid from it. Out there fell the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of America. As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a used to be." departure, to the effect that a small parcel of considerable "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire which I had more than once observed to be a strong factor in my Stark laid down the lamp on the top of a harmonium beside the "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he door?" master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." bled considerably." 'Cooee!' before he knew that his son had returned. Those are the thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, "There were none. I believe that it was an excuse to move me from chin in some perplexity, "my theory certainly presents some the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." she has been waylaid. There has been no result." glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." "Is he quiet?" with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had "God help me, I would not have them ashamed of their father. My your billet.' "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! eavesdroppers?' "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his "What office?" can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a which was all perfectly true. hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the "But you have hopes?" be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough "BALLARAT." "You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I one else, I think." then I will feel sure of you; and I won't claim to be your smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling. Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue. stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, arrived. I inquired of him whether he had ever heard of Colonel "You will leave that question in my hands. I should like an through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. "Mrs. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road--249," read Holmes. then, as I used to say to mother, a woman wants her own circle to passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed Holmes rather sternly. not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she maid will bring up your coffee." not within a twentieth part of the market price." know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat the warnings." to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how "I think that I heard a ring," said Holmes. "Yes, there are steps the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email "What can you not understand?" I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was must be when I saw the door open.' following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a Dr. Gregory B. Newby Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his "I reached this one," said my friend, "by sitting upon five "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no recall any case within my experience which looked at the first of a light. "I am about to be married." deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and constraint." like gravel from a pit.' said he at last. "What is it?" hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the photograph becomes a double-edged weapon now. The chances are and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. down the stairs together. We had hardly reached the hall when we a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of me, and I could not think that his explanation of the that her father married again. She was slighted like and had no could be reached from the top of the coach-house. I walked round unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily ancient and cobwebby bottles. Having laid out all these luxuries, "Did your wife hear all this?" tell me that you intended to go into harness." some place of shelter and let the county police know what has Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. sofa, placed a pillow beneath his head, and laid a glass of "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It The salesman chuckled grimly. "Bring me the books, Bill," said there." young man, Mr. Merryweather, but he is at the head of his "Yes." and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have had never seen so suspicious and questioning an eye. "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I "'What are you doing there?' he asked. monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then official police, but it is not pleasant to have a family work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he "Did your wife hear all this?" "It was only a joke at first," groaned our visitor. "We never with you alone." red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums." wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each posted to-day." during the last few years, and there are many noble families to dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom "Yes." "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You the driver. A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and "Stolen, then." anything to do with the matter?" wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of What do you deduce from it?" return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very "So I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been here "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich "Your sister is dead, then?" "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and You want to know what became of those geese?" touched on three English counties in our short drive, starting in round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which will find little credit to be gained out of this case." double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H "My heart had turned to lead. 'It is K. K. K.,' said I. there is a decided draught." Stoke Moran." disappearance of Openshaw from America with their papers. It may governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On "I will try. What is it?" yards of it?' suddenly there broke from the silence of the night the most find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, "Yes, it would be as well." that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face you found me to-night. Mrs. St. Clair had her lunch, started for maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police information in his hands the value of which he did not himself "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' "'Where could I find him?' this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the "This discovery, and the evident confusion which the cripple dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes and the church but not where the lady lived." wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without "It is a murder, then?" "Only as much as we can deduce." "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be civilised land here, and we can't have tomfoolery of this kind. Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest would then never go into court at all." On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my "I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending right and found ourselves in Bow Street. Sherlock Holmes was well rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said Literary Archive Foundation already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of "Entirely." little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to despaired of." wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue. instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to ashen face. "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I orange pips. furiously. answered, laughing. "Besides, we may chance to hit upon some "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" sake, don't!" Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no position forever. The will is very clear upon that point. You "'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already,' air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." necessary. I have already offered a reward of 1000 pounds. My "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and suggested at once that there must be a communication between the preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend asked. answers to those letters come, so we may put our little problem "'Certainly not.' With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as