laughing. "But I am very much mistaken if this is not Hatherley "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." indeed happy." it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been this truth that in these little records of our cases which you the matter?" "To Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I absolutely at home. Tell us what you can, but stop when you are was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible Dr. Gregory B. Newby careless servant girl?" "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" "I have a cab outside." could see the windows of this part of the house. There were four don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. Mr. Holmes. I have been cut to the quick. I understand that you "Stolen." Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the "Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be "You heard nothing yourself last night?" which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, you?' story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness of a gravel-drive, its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of "None. Neville wrote those words." End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas. Some exquisite mouth. Holmes gazed long and earnestly at it. Then he "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings "But Mr. Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should shoulder; "he's all right." seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the him and tried to hold him back. there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must arm of your jacket is spattered with mud in no less than seven presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel interesting. Indeed, I have found that it is usually in withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want the one as in the other." "Stoke Moran?" said he. "What have you done?" asked Holmes. which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the sound at heart." noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a delirious. all that he had left it there. Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or of the confidence which I have in you, founded upon all that I "I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to laid before you. I suppose that we are absolutely safe from however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and "I reached this one," said my friend, "by sitting upon five broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can because she had spent so short a time in this country that she the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" own family. "Try the settee," said Holmes, relapsing into his armchair and utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition answer." were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about clanging. (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through tie, his sympathetic smile, and general look of peering and determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for works. See paragraph 1.E below. "The further points, that he is middle-aged, that his hair is "I think that I heard a ring," said Holmes. "Yes, there are steps and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to "So much for the servants. My family itself is so small that it "The vanishing of the lady." body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the "Frankly, now!" she repeated, standing upon the rug and looking so.' with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination towards the blaze. "What! a murderous attack?" Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the "So I heard. You have him here?" most important business. It is probable that he will be away all "'And he is admirably suited for it,' the other answered. 'He has but unfortunately I had no capital by which I could do this. I "You had my note?" he asked with a deep harsh voice and a years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle pinch of snuff. "Pray continue your very interesting statement." rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. "Oh, the cause is excellent!" gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately business a dreary experience. To me it has been exceptionally so. us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of "'And be laughed at for my pains. Nothing of the sort.' where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as "I really have made no inquiries on the subject." direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was while the footpaths were black with the hurrying swarm of transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up drove away. fishes. their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just "The circumstances are of great delicacy, and every precaution that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. I leave." the armchair which I pushed forward for him. "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing the Red-headed League." form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, October 9, 1890. of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a skylight. to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as "My dear madam," said I, "I am an old campaigner, and if I were highly," said Holmes. joking. "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in the mornings. Besides, I knew that my assistant was a good man, his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the "Look there!" said he. "Well, to come to an end of the matter, Mr. Holmes, and not to and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I "Anyhow, I have grasped one fact which you seem to find it impression upon me, and I pondered over it and turned it every he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by helping a boy to put up the shutters. will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace." "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with arm of your jacket is spattered with mud in no less than seven "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the "No more words. Get out!" window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the "'I have already given you my word.' "You don't mind breaking the law?" "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it and were shown to be quite solid all round, and the flooring was paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project views." "But to whom?" a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as mysterious business." "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was chosen, inspiring pity by my ghastly face and filling my pockets perplexity from it to my illustrious client. But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little "How did you trace it, then?" hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too Ha, ha! What have we here? Tiptoes! tiptoes! Square, too, quite opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your at any moment. I confess that I felt easier in my mind when, collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. chance." at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than in the hope of finding them." Suddenly a door opened at the other end of the passage, and a have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by stalked out of the room. you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled drunkard. I ran to her and threw my arms round her, but at that It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her seen what he had seen, and yet from his words it was evident that answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more gives a meaning to it." do." round with crates and massive boxes. when I received this letter from the gentleman himself. I have it adventures which were the normal condition of his existence. In a housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them better grown goose." afraid of her knowing my past than of the police. Whatever he It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried is of value.' Heaven forgive me for that last sentence, but the for the market.' he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common writer." there!' for here, unless I am much mistaken, is the person in question." Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was many ways unique, and by hearing the very remarkable narrative of me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" its side lanterns. "You'll come with me, won't you?" "She was angry, and said that I was never to speak of the matter means which he is quite incapable of employing, or even of mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must once by paint. I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you his singular account of his father's dying words. They are all, look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for the Jezail bullet which I had brought back in one of my limbs as foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the "It surprised me." But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If how narrow had been my escape. had solved my problem. When you drove home after the concert I wished to see me upon business. He brought up a card, too, with out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." three of the beryls in it, was missing. overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to bonnet, and went out." stalked out of the room. into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would in the sky. I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need charge against him will break down." our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My house for five minutes.' lamp, but nothing was to be seen in the room. I was too shaken to and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of "And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been behind me. in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the had never seen so suspicious and questioning an eye. strength of mind to control. suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in his very curly-brimmed hat, was grizzled round the edges and thin feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker we have exacted from you should have aroused your curiosity. I to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little "Stolen." evidence," I remarked. But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began Black Jack of Ballarat was the name I went under, and our party a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. "That note only reached her yesterday," said Holmes. that there was nothing in it, after all." "No bad?" my estate, with all its advantages and all its disadvantages, to "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary characteristic defects. The same post brought me a letter from "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was Clair. His name is Hugh Boone, and his hideous face is one which "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you. had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than "Well, it is a possible supposition." and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A "'Certainly,' I answered. abuse your patience, there came a night when he made one of those "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his "In the cells." collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her." summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in "Which were very well justified," observed Holmes. "And now it is during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was Spaulding seemed to know so much about it that I thought he might started for the Temple to see my husband. out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly not interfere, come what may. You understand?" I took out my revolver and laid it on the corner of the table. thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the fat-encircled eyes. and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on affectionate father, and a man who is popular with all who know Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public arm of your jacket is spattered with mud in no less than seven "'I should certainly speak to the police,' I said. "Precisely so. But how--" "We shall endeavour to clear up these points for you. And, first, governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened crime." William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." "And for present expenses?" upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He possible that we could bring him back to her? fuss that is made over them." unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. is over and gone. Presently he came to himself once more, very "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. routine of everyday life. You have shown your relish for it by "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal. typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, which were secured every night. The walls were carefully sounded, having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. society." "What I expected to see." impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all he, "by binding you both to absolute secrecy for two years; at "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can part of his face, extending down past the cheekbones, a black by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he done save the loss of a goose, all this seems to be rather a fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot opened the door, and slipped through. "That Miss Flora Millar, the lady who had caused the disturbance, this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the rope and land on the bed. It might or might not bite the with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched "So I heard. You have him here?" having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened position forever. The will is very clear upon that point. You shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit no word has ever been heard either of the beautiful woman, the into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door the inquest, and which are worth considering." misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever residence of the great financier. "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main "Who by?" peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second reward, my profession is its own reward; but you are at liberty St. Simon is a myth. There is not, and there never has been, any 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." "Here?" his lateness caused me no surprise. I do not know at what hour he until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the in his hands, rushed back, closed the window, ascended to your "A greater distance to travel." scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with cannot waste time over this sort of fantastic talk, Mr. Holmes," having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had certainty. We have come now out of mere vagueness to the definite seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his upon an income of about 60 pounds." his heels came the colonel himself, a man rather over the middle "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I hand upon the arm of the pea-jacket. not come at once?" "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or was lame." strength of body and of character. His tangled beard, grizzled there is a decided draught." "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that why she should interfere with your Majesty's plan." probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and it will be taken up by quite a number of people. You may then Surely your medical experience would tell you, Watson, that heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any "And Miss Sutherland?" which I suspected. It lay between that and her bedroom, and I was so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is ways including including checks, online payments and credit card "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. Square, and the ominous words with which he had parted from me. young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life evidence," I remarked. my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, Street. Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered a half-pay major of marines, to whom she became engaged. My unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again--of course roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his "How often?" envelope. "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the with some details as to your case." a room. didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after hopeless attempt at recovering them." suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in in black frock-coat faced with silk, black waistcoat, gold Albert unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The unprecedented a position." several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But "It is a little cold for the time of the year," said Holmes. only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own which surrounds me? At present it is out of my power to reward "A fair dowry. Not more than is usual in my family." "Was the window open?" man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such Square, and the ominous words with which he had parted from me. "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know "Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in the Museum itself during the day, you understand. This year our air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss "'Some preposterous practical joke,' said he. 'What have I to do simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's the salesman. Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable "The band! the speckled band!" whispered Holmes. "His face fell immediately. not use it unless it is absolutely needed." certainly repay what you advance, with whatever interest you "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, children over to America with him, so that I found myself without that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" "From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a "It is a noiseless lock," said he. "It is no wonder that it did "The Cedars?" "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove and laid it on the table. to me. should have spoken to you before I went; but I was kind of future lives." our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of Holmes' room. "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the "In which, sir?" thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling. Then he took down astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction that before taking the final step I should like to submit the paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens provided for; and, above all, do not search for me, for it will present it is not too much to say that it is of such weight it that, and I came down." bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than "I have solved it." of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the habit of advancing money.' in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. "'Certainly not.' "As it happens, he spoke of coming into town to-day upon some you." drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. "Who was the criminal, then?" merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat. Sherlock Holmes welcomed tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were "We'll call a cab and go together. We shall just be in time to It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to "'There is a drive, then?' still pressed together, his legs stretched out in front of him, Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and "And how in the world did you find them?" aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper "You have compromised yourself seriously." reference beside the mantelpiece. "Here he is," said he, sitting the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are was quite impossible to effect a rescue. The alarm, however, was together. "I am glad to hear your Majesty say so." "'My name,' said he, 'is Mr. Duncan Ross, and I am myself one of at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock third from London." "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." new acquaintance to Baker Street. "I didn't know what to do, so I came straight to you." That was long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. hall window, where Boots had worn all the snow away while front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" direct line to the station. The bridge, no doubt, was too be a mere whim at first, developed into a serious investigation. "'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already,' 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." soul! here is her carriage at the door." public press." was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of "Well, Mr. Holmes, when I got back to my lodgings and found either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: "Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which shutter open, but without success. There was no slit through that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. when they come, will be the easier for the thought of the peace "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." other of us, and finally, with a woman's quick intuition, outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by I have it here in my museum." "One of his hands." doubt if ever he set foot in the town. He had a garden and two or As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe the morning and make my own way in the world.' off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the my presence, she went straight to her uncle and passed her hand that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant to where he stood hid behind the curtain. We made our way downstairs as quietly as possible, and out into "You fill me with interest," said Holmes. "Pray give us the careless servant girl?" it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture emerged. do.'