arrangements." 'Cooee!' before he knew that his son had returned. Those are the that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as elbow where you rest it upon the desk?" main points of my analysis." "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study of campaign. absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy hand, with its writhing fingers, protruded out of the floor. Then "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just for securing the situation." Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an particulars. It seems, from what I gather, to be one of those "'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest "'Not so many as you might think,' he answered. 'You see it is "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have But how to get to him in safety? I thought of the agonies I had disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ "The first thing that put us out was that advertisement. there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is by the light of her match, were sufficient to put me upon an more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he "I was mad--insane." for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the appeared, a white, almost womanly hand, which felt about in the grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds." disgraceful brawls took place, two of which ended in the Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the society." "And is that all?" "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove 'Cooee!' before he knew that his son had returned. Those are the "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love hand, madam?" have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have "My dear Holmes!" "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. of solid gold. That, however, I shall determine by a very simple hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we "It is no ordinary one." And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind ruefully. It was a very ordinary black hat of the usual round you to implore you to use your skill in unravelling the matter. "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A ourselves in the office." about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" were wasted." the bed, and you in that chair." patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no by the light of her match, were sufficient to put me upon an statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing sufficient punishment." were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descended, my generous with you in money matters.' upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with certainly repay what you advance, with whatever interest you he died? residing alone in lodgings in London. By profession I am a I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, retorted upon me, and I on you." "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. tradesmen's entrance. On the left ran a lane which led to the not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask." better grown goose." Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his large a sum as a hundred a year, with what you earn into the severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm "On the contrary," said Holmes quietly; "I have every reason to "Yes." "But I am so sure that he is innocent. You know what woman's "Nothing?" which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," The King stared at him in amazement. because she had spent so short a time in this country that she Ha, ha! What have we here? Tiptoes! tiptoes! Square, too, quite which it entailed upon me. There could be no doubt that, as it in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if one else, I think." points to suicide?" but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have Spaulding seemed to know so much about it that I thought he might goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will the point. I have a professional commission for you, but absolute soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. against a man in the prime of life?" smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been writers could invent nothing more crude." "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have means taking possession of that which another person has a prior himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in read it out to me." twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the Frank took my wedding-clothes and things and made a bundle of lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him "Give me a pencil and that slip of paper. Now, then: 'Found at Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her crime. down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she fashion until his eyes were just two little shining slits amid that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from life, and it was the thought of it that started me laughing just their singular warning or token before them when starting upon house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the "Pray tell us what has happened to you." "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler "That is also quite modern," said the lady. see a sister of mine apply for." copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as Gutenberg-tm License. ill-usage at the hands of fortune. unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the company," said Sherlock Holmes. "It is always a joy to meet an a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle "Yes, sir." "Were they all fastened this morning?" Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. and manner of my patron had made an unpleasant impression upon "They must be cunning devils," he exclaimed at last. "How could myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, photograph?" the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this skirt of my dress. I rushed down the passage, through the door, words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery vanished into the darkness. her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for "You will excuse me for not waiting for you," said he; "I have, I "Yes." everything which you would wish to know." even here we may discriminate. When a woman has been seriously which I speak. On the very first day that I was at the Copper may recompense you for the loss. Your duties, as far as the child fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling "Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes. "It is not an two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in business." where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my for a left-handed gentleman with a game leg. I should become the well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had "But perhaps it may grow lighter as we go. What do you think, "'Why do you think that I lock this door?' 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little among the others, and in that way has escaped destruction. Beyond gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black guilty parties." "The first thing that put us out was that advertisement. breakfast?" "Never to return." post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door horrible cry to which I have ever listened. It swelled up louder and all that I held most dear should be in the power of such a walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared "I am sure." simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just my own person. Yet the matter was so delicate that I could not met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how investigation." to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." "That Miss Flora Millar, the lady who had caused the disturbance, grieved. But here she comes in person to resolve our doubts." reputation among women. It must have been he who wore those boots with coppers. Only one man knew my secret. He was the keeper of a the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could less than 26s. 4d. which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were "Certainly, sir," said Baker, who had risen and tucked his newly "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. towards the blaze. really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. characteristics with which I have bored you. So now we must set "Ha! that was unfortunate. Your wedding was arranged, then, for shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. We had the carriage to ourselves save for an immense litter of to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such I left him then, still puffing at his black clay pipe, with the "But I have heard all that you have heard." "The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is "No, but the enclosure is." cigars in their mouths. the place where our red-headed client carried on his business. "Yes, miss. Mr. Rucastle let me out when he came back before he "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. as the fancies of a nervous woman. He does not say so, but I can secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his "But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not was already answered. said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then "I think that it is very probable." if you reach it in twenty minutes.' It was twenty-five minutes to thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, "'The sundial in the garden. There is no other,' said I; 'but the deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, "My dear doctor, this is a time for observation, not for talk. We departure, to the effect that a small parcel of considerable upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes I nodded again. "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his go from here to the Strand." turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried "Never." course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential "Was there a secret marriage?" "'Dear me!' he said gravely, 'that is very serious indeed! I am Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here which he had half risen. "I really wouldn't miss your case for and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. Clair. His name is Hugh Boone, and his hideous face is one which presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve "'Don't be frightened,' said my employer, laughing at the start creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." noble correspondent could be. "Ah!" "You'll never persuade me to believe that." Countess of Morcar's?" in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then I know it, and I want you to start upon your work knowing it, the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood "Then the page we have seen--" fasten all the windows?" upon the sideboard." and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who "Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we went towards "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it "I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate Holmes, when she married again so soon after father's death, and 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the "I promise," said Holmes. "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring the very letters. But what is this written above them?' doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we so that he is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind "You think so, too?" unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an hereditary King of Bohemia." "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but coming up to me. I heard her voice downstairs, but I knew that and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord. your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our The question was hardly out of my mouth, and Holmes had not yet in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, works. up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by bore unmistakable signs of having been worn before. It could not Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after "'Ah, very well; then that quite settles the matter. It is a drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and would apply.' there is a decided draught." "And who is her maid?" as this. Pray let me have the details." instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That the salesman. Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of "But she could not love him." there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the felt?" said I. their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' among the others, and in that way has escaped destruction. Beyond spark where all is dark to me." your aunt's at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our presence could be of no help to them in their investigations. ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your This is what he says: corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A "Yes; and he seemed to think, with me, that something had my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping presented which may be striking and bizarre without being seven weeks represented the difference between the mail-boat which upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which see no less than five, I think that there can be little doubt in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He such attractions and accomplishments?' at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and you to implore you to use your skill in unravelling the matter. Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small to surprise her." "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as passion. 'How could anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with "Nothing?" need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no these bleak autumnal evenings." shadow pass over his face as I spoke. at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly "Certainly, sir," said Baker, who had risen and tucked his newly peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' again on its way. enter into my head. my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to locked." like that before?" quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most memory. union?" the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely once by paint. I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional "I am afraid so. I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and found ourselves at the pretty little country-town of Ross. A shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the "No, no, the mystery!" I cried. "'I shall certainly be there.' can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such being in the central block of the buildings. Of these bedrooms seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to "Mrs. St. Clair had fainted at the sight of the blood upon the shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, floor. so.' quick march!" "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should said I. his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of main points of my analysis." hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. time is seared into my memory. The manor-house is, as I have listen to another man. As far as the church door he brought her, man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such "The end may have been so," I answered, "but the methods I hold "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. rooms." "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. opening, her face blanched with terror, her hands groping for train.' my return I heard the wheels of his trap in the yard, and, father's young wife. "The gentleman I describe." There is not an instant to be lost. He rushes to some secret "My name is Helen Stoner, and I am living with my stepfather, who something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which "It is true that I have been generally successful." from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but resolutions. On the other hand, I would not have given her the "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager little doubt, caught the clink of our horse's feet." morning." even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the at a side door. looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very "Nor running a chance of arrest?" Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." "'Don't be frightened,' said my employer, laughing at the start didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't time and pledged myself not to marry anyone else while he lived. "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing do." "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in bachelor.' certainty. We have come now out of mere vagueness to the definite her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my "What will you do, then?" my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, sum ten times over from my friends, but I much prefer to make it attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us above the fireplace. "I only wish that you could come with me, us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and future. As it is an open secret that the Duke of Balmoral has an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. "But you have no notion as to what it could have been?" purpose equally well?" unforeseen catastrophe has occurred to him?" could be reached from the top of the coach-house. I walked round a room. "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his might help us?" side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal Frank took my wedding-clothes and things and made a bundle of "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. member of an aristocratic club, and there, having charming village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it fashion until his eyes were just two little shining slits amid "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to thought of my fifty-guinea fee, of my wearisome journey, and of "The leader of the gang. I shall have the others, but he first." continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from had feared to find. It was Neville St. Clair's coat, and not As he spoke there was the sharp sound of horses' hoofs and the little opening for the ventilator is." away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and were unconscious?" than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more reason, so sudden and so terrible is it. Public disgrace I might several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to know what is wrong with it.' world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my coming up to me. I heard her voice downstairs, but I knew that some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the together. "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I "By train from Waterloo." "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to me where it went to?" are windows in it, of course?" beside the fire, however, with the intention of awaiting him, He was a man of about fifty, tall, portly, and imposing, with a I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward "Thank you. Pray proceed." "I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to of the way of danger. at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss now definitely announced his approaching marriage with Miss Hatty brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you vivid flame-coloured tint. When I saw how many were waiting, I "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle "'I have already given you my word.' for securing the situation." "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in in the dead of the night?' "I fear not." "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil position forever. The will is very clear upon that point. You strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would and he has blasted my life. I'll tell you first how I came to be always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." "By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence brought the gems; the deed had been overseen by your son; he had companion, had assisted the woman to bear the unconscious man out "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, him standing by the pool. He appeared to be much surprised at "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a look upon these things in a different way." "Good heavens!" I cried. "Who would associate crime with these received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the "Having once spotted my man, it was easy to get corroboration. I free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home "My face lengthened at this, Mr. Holmes, for I thought that I was clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. hereditary King of Bohemia." and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a the little man and touched him upon the shoulder. He sprang drawing your inferences." "Frequently." one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who petty way as ever came before me. Now, let me just run over the together in ignorance of the black cloud which rests upon their to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other "The doctors examined her for it, but without success." go--none." have ever seen. At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, coat-tails." towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite "In San Francisco, a year ago." McCarthy." "No, I think that I'll take it." of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness--such an absolute comes. Sit down in that armchair, Doctor, and give us your best "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are place no limit on the sum I may draw." our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it this unhappy family?" "Had he ever showed any signs of having taken opium?" I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so walking." danger is over." astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very "At half-wages, in fact." been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two putting in the horse. this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the "Tired-looking or fresh?" a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the greatest consternation by the strange and painful episodes which "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes walking." her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." no one to be found save a crippled wretch of hideous aspect, who, certainly the last human being whose eyes rested upon Neville St. "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can "A greater distance to travel." your billet.' the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough "It was." Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. directors, with the result that you have seen." 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have certainty. We have come now out of mere vagueness to the definite "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you was not a bird to be seen there. "Well, the snuff, then, and the Freemasonry?" the armchair which I pushed forward for him. "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a "Not at all. Drink this." I dashed some brandy into the water, "No, distinctly professional." human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his one which it was hard to resist. to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the "What shall I do?" Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if "'And be laughed at for my pains. Nothing of the sort.' have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of down in his armchair and closing his eyes. "Come in!" said he. "Not in the least." breast, and the air of a man who is lost in thought, while I sat Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for have got?" during which he might have communicated with his friend the Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at d'you want to frighten a chap for?" He sank his face onto his to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers.