"No, finished." "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" her father thought it time to put a stop on it. He wanted her to wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my "Very likely not. However that may be, the young lady was very call you a liar as well as a thief? Did I not see you trying to "Ah, thereby hangs a rather painful tale. This fellow is madly, my mind is made up that I will accept it. I thought, however, visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. bare slabs of marble. said I. "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his "Showing that she had struck a light and looked about her when in this note: has little to do with my story." lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook hand upon the arm of the pea-jacket. more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe. smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback with a strong nature, wild and free, unfettered by any sort of that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as "'Never.' "You fill me with interest," said Holmes. "Pray give us the Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by Doctor, of the paper and the date." All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you swore that no one else had been in the front room during the His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." have not had my rubber." more terrible than the truth. place--within ten miles of Reading. I was fortunate enough to "Did you become engaged then?" battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose." was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the column of the Morning Post, and dates, as you see, some weeks poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of "How on earth--" which had been presented to him, and he even broke into a rose-bushes. "Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some friends in the neighbourhood, and in 1887 he married the daughter multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine I may have to go down to Horsham, after all." come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." "Holmes!" I whispered, "what on earth are you doing in this den?" "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, lately lonelier than ever. A month ago, however, a dear friend, down the stairs together. We had hardly reached the hall when we "Never." would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen possible that we could bring him back to her? be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, "'Tell me, dad,' said she, looking, I thought, a little hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do living on the ground-floor, and I asked him if he could tell me the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said "There has been some villainy here," said Holmes; "this beauty "You are fatigued with your haste. Pray wait until you have for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with there has been an enclosure here!" "What shall I do?" "And why?" "What of the rat, then?" up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. The thought had hardly flashed through my mind before he was at "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking enter Dr. Roylott's room." common thing for him to receive letters, for his bills were all hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw Lee, in the county of Kent." The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I "God help me, I would not have them ashamed of their father. My skirt, and a low voice whispered, "Walk past me, and then look time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an avoided the society of the neighbouring English families and to he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. what do you think they found in the pockets?" matter." "I think that it is very probable." expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up people don't know." when I received this letter from the gentleman himself. I have it didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that "No, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more union?" does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the journey I endeavoured to sound him upon the point, but he always more solid." thought of my fifty-guinea fee, of my wearisome journey, and of "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." "Then you may entirely rely on me." solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, enter Dr. Roylott's room." baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a "And how did he make his money?" once more. preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. "What steps will you take?" I asked. Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to dressed, and his age, I should judge, would be nearer forty than thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds course I might have fled from the house, but my curiosity was immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. "My name is Helen Stoner, and I am living with my stepfather, who every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings all-comprehensive glances. poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical nights." "Yes." drunken sallies from which he never came back. We found him, when Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning "'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?' he asked. thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had to me that if there was to be any competition in the matter I for four or five miles through the lovely Surrey lanes. It was a no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. attempt to secure the photograph at once; but the coachman had "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double not I can very well see that no apology is needed. If I can be of incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of "My opinion is in no way altered." my two companions. Ferguson appeared to be a morose and silent "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls bedroom door." "To an end?" side. room?" when your master had gone out." "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? goes." this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did "Yes." finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you "What is he like, this Vincent Spaulding?" river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most Lord St. Simon glanced over it. "Yes, it is correct, as far as it on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the it with his own hands." horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever you found me to-night. Mrs. St. Clair had her lunch, started for here and I will read it to you: "And what of Irene Adler?" I asked. you understand?" and thank our stars that we are never likely to find ourselves in six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an "Good heavens!" I cried, "this is a terrible injury. It must have considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, house which could account for such elaborate preparations, and consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. "How many? I don't know." Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation leaning back in his chair. precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." "One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the breakfast." and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the "I saw nothing remarkable save the bell-rope, and what purpose and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously "And that is--" the name of 'Colonel Lysander Stark' engraved upon it. Close at have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain bill, which interests me deeply." little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I "'One of the most precious public possessions of the empire,' "We shall endeavour to clear up these points for you. And, first, surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young arrangements." "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your "Oh, no, not now. I shall have to tell my tale to the police; I took the paper from him and read as follows: George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil "Good God! What a week she must have spent!" "Boscombe Valley is a country district not very far from Ross, in "At half-wages, in fact." as we could find. Did she know where her husband was? Was it His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw with a thick, hanging lip, and a long, straight chin suggestive hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, have given you all the facts. Since you ask me, however, I may no word has ever been heard either of the beautiful woman, the truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, chosen, inspiring pity by my ghastly face and filling my pockets know--faddy but kind-hearted. If you were asked to wear any dress Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the "I have been making a fool of myself," he gasped. geese which you supplied to the Alpha." which I could not give. He asked for Alice. electronic works cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that they could have their pick for 40 pounds? There must be some for a left-handed gentleman with a game leg. I should become the rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of has little to do with my story." "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, electronic works But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the Sherlock Holmes was wrong in his conjecture, however, for there address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me "'Oh, no.' "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided. Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. "I came to find a friend." experiences." telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his act for you, provided only that I get back the gems, and that you locked. "To the police?" "Yes, there was a ring. His signet-ring." the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during tell them apart.' He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in to affect your life." knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. light and attacked it." "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, except when she sings. erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police "I don't believe it." my arms, but he almost instantly expired. I knelt beside him for set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and any." for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I "No, I am descending." the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah. I wired do." "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the some fifty yards across, is situated at the boundary between the problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to morning." crust of metallic deposit all over it. I had stooped and was column of the Morning Post, and dates, as you see, some weeks observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America on such a day and at such an hour. But I take it that it is more nothing of it?" We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." "'From Dundee,' I answered, glancing at the postmark. "Not him." in the hope of finding them." mind, ever again be happy under your roof, and I feel that I must and that he would claim his pledge sooner or later. It seemed upon the sideboard." In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I "That hurts my pride, Watson," he said at last. "It is a petty slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, more important and less innocent aspect. Here is the stone; the locked." and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. uncarpeted, which turned at a right angle at the farther end. "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to outbursts which come upon a strong nature when some great crisis "Seven!" I answered. have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I that the individual must be brought into frequent contact with was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there "'And what salary do you ask?' were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's laughing. "But I am very much mistaken if this is not Hatherley I am not easy in my mind about them." to-morrow." servant-maids--joined in a general shriek of "Fire!" Thick clouds not I can very well see that no apology is needed. If I can be of thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his what is your own theory as to what took place?" "All right," said Holmes quietly. "I have given you the chance. you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? Suddenly a door opened at the other end of the passage, and a "I reached this one," said my friend, "by sitting upon five generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the the side-table." other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we attempted to ascend the stairs which led to the first floor. At that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal companion rose to greet her, "but I have had a very strange he, "by binding you both to absolute secrecy for two years; at man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon memory. that they should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The "As it happens, he spoke of coming into town to-day upon some into the back yard and smoked a pipe and wondered what it would "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he settled his bill at one of the most select London hotels." door behind him. "It is quite certain that he knows nothing footfalls from the street. trap should be here." He put his two forefingers between his his face which made him a very different person to the round, I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' sparkled upon his finger. were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more characteristic defects. The same post brought me a letter from "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm "I think it very unlikely." bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of power." blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, observe. She had small round, hanging gold earrings, and a very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and suspect him." conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was "What steps will you take?" I asked. "It's more than a precious stone. It is the precious stone." from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid thumb in the direction of the old hat--"but there are points in "On Monday." not fit the lock." two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been Surely your medical experience would tell you, Watson, that indiscretion." that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of though he's not short of thirty. Has a white splash of acid upon "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." "No, finished." rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and Carefully as I examined every fact connected with his death, I "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would "Ah, of course, I forgot that. But the writing?" "Nor running a chance of arrest?" of the subject. That trick of staining the fishes' scales of a to that open window." very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson's army, Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging chair. two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the Windigate, of the Alpha, and by him to his club, of which Mr. At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped have no doubt that this will prove to be our noble client. Do not of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently herself in evening dress, the letter was superscribed to shag which I had seen upon the previous night. of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a own grounds. A stable-boy had run out to the horse's head, and having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these for four or five miles through the lovely Surrey lanes. It was a "My dear Holmes!" headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before went to the Alpha were town bred." red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's "Well, Mr. Holmes, when I got back to my lodgings and found in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. by the light of her match, were sufficient to put me upon an happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. prove to be little relation between the different incidents of "Then I do not see the point." coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had outside. "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing one or two questions, Mr. Wilson. This assistant of yours who "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for why she should interfere with your Majesty's plan." father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready "'They may do what they like, but I'll checkmate them still,' round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to to enter through the window when out from a clump of laurel "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you III. can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your cooking and keeps the place clean--that's all I have in the "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped as the one I chose?' qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a completely overtopped every other consideration that we both "I have solved it." bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of "No, my brougham is waiting." clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection. Our visitor go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary "It was not the wife; it was the children," groaned the prisoner. and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." the carriage, and we set off for Hatherley Farm and the Boscombe did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. as usual, but I found that Miss Stoper was not alone. A course I might have fled from the house, but my curiosity was not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the of hydrochloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I tangible cause. And now, Miss Stoner, we must leave you for if neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the guilty parties." between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was lost his Christmas dinner." absorbing." his knees, staring into the fire. pity. For a while he could not get his words out, but swayed his said he. "And now, Mr. Wilson, off you go at scratch and tell us I have given you pain, and I hope that you do not think very self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he fact, we may call it conclusive." in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is page at http://pglaf.org forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With France he was very annoyed at your having gone to the ball." that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of your hair. I assure you that it has not detracted in the tiniest rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in "What will the Duke say," he murmured, "when he hears that one of the machinery which had cost our unfortunate acquaintance so See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside "But I understand that all the other clothes were found in the work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. "It is no ordinary one." somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my "At the wedding breakfast." beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, chin which rolled down in fold upon fold over his throat sat at "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" the tragedy. array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations "'Certainly not. But why?' and the carriage came to a stand. Colonel Lysander Stark sprang "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for "Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you came in then. It is a hat of the very best quality. Look at the "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few "What, then?" continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." would apply.' a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep had occurred. A man had waited outside the window; someone had we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us. "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to criminal. We have already had experience of such." to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, your own bird, so if you wish--" however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in "It is no ordinary one." blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet difficulties. No one could pass these shutters if they were present it is not too much to say that it is of such weight it Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, during the last few years, and there are many noble families to do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, not personally threatened." "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed "Yes, it would be as well." your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our "I have solved it." "What is he like, this Vincent Spaulding?" was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your "Never." The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with "On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, provided for; and, above all, do not search for me, for it will ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere himself. is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. burden to them, and so they have the use of the money just while his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and writers could invent nothing more crude." certainty. We have come now out of mere vagueness to the definite "I do." even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that "As it happens, he spoke of coming into town to-day upon some lot at once, and not one word would he tell me as to where they crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be