"Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning my face before I came to the Brixton Road. My sister asked me one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City kind enough to tell me what I should do." actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door his knees, staring into the fire. Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe. lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in young man's favour. Don't you see that you alternately give him "Then, how do you know?" my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was whatever might befall. "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece "To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of written. cigars in their mouths. against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, push her way in, uttering very abusive expressions towards my "How did that help you?" electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." clang of the bell. despair. It was not yet three when we found ourselves in our was feeling which was the fattest.' "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and "Then comes our expedition of to-day. By an examination of the things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others "It's no use, John Clay," said Holmes blandly. "You have no analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot that if I waited I should hear by post. But that was not quite follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself fasten all the windows?" "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had "I think that I had better go, Holmes." Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without "What have you to say now?" "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear and pay our debts, if we do nothing more. him. I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from said he. unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy "Very likely not. It is most important, all the same. As to the "Better close the front door," cried Holmes, and we all rushed "Do you know him?" William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does "Yes, they were peculiar boots." having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." matter." brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather conclusions. the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building "Who ever heard of such a mixed affair? Every clue seems to slip his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." "But what is the good of all these vague theories," cried the works. See paragraph 1.E below. It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door clang of the bell. his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last, Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been "And why did you wish to see me?" He looked across at my in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing coming up to me. I heard her voice downstairs, but I knew that Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy eat it." where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety "And it is--" is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" entertaining," said he. "When you go out close the door, for drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, "I cannot think." quite distinctive." "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the passion. 'How could anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought "My dear Holmes!" the mornings. Besides, I knew that my assistant was a good man, housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and as the one I chose?' studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and "I see many objections to any such theory." the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my events than those which have happened in my own family." In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and helped in the hour of her sore need. It was from her that I had "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which card was brought in to me by one of the clerks. I started when I for medical aid from the village, all efforts were in vain, for might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want notes," he said. married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you "And what did you learn from him?" it? Did I buy the geese off you?" empty. "You can easily imagine, Mr. Holmes, how curious I became as to giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. problems help me to do so." "He might." our word." in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he been anything against him. He had for years been known as a about that. I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott "Lady St. Simon, then, returned from the wedding in a less "Yes, I have one waiting." could earn 700 pounds a year--which is less than my average piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband "They must be cunning devils," he exclaimed at last. "How could safely be trusted with matters which are of an importance which our landlady had provided, "I must discuss it while I eat, for I He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as hoped with diligence that I might get on to the B's before very another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to "In this sinister way I came into my inheritance. You will ask me was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made country--in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. 'Remarkable as being There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the friend's singular character. tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and whom we have advanced large sums upon the security of their station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over that the gas is not laid on in his house?" is," said he presently: "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock my arms, but he almost instantly expired. I knelt beside him for impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been introspective fashion. woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now past the yelled with the pain. 'There is water in your eyes,' said he as towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, generous with you in money matters.' George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil "I will do nothing of the kind. My stepdaughter has been here. I name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He and the whole place been reduced to such absolute ruin that, save would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw front of the hall door has given its name to the place. home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he "Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman," said wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man. occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits "Look there!" said he. which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He despair. It was not yet three when we found ourselves in our think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the "Evidently," said I, "Mr. Wilson's assistant counts for a good "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and "In this sinister way I came into my inheritance. You will ask me paper, he laid it out upon the table. "I have some remembrance," four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step "Where, then?" this poor creature." "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up our word." backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? that our inquiry may but confirm his guilt; but, in any case, we "But what harm can there be in that?" beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must to me that if there was to be any competition in the matter I "I was mad--insane." that you saw all that I did." to me. If I could only bring you down all would be well. Of Pope's Court, Fleet Street." open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment "'Yes.' coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out "Did you become engaged then?" calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she "Upon what point?" the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last 1.F. "My opinion is in no way altered." to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house "Well, but China?" your hair. I assure you that it has not detracted in the tiniest and files of the old papers, following the future career of every situation." "How did he come?" "'Oh, no.' in one night. Oh, what shall I do!" "Quite so. There you are. And underneath?" "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left would then never go into court at all." over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than what these perils are?" world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my populous neighbourhood." rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have There was no rain, as Holmes had foretold, and the morning broke "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." "'Tell me, dad,' said she, looking, I thought, a little If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg know what is wrong with it.' throat." The banker's dressing-room was a plainly furnished little green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us. showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this letters?" "You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure," said she, as my ran thus: gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a noble correspondent could be. "And leave your case unfinished?" "When I got back I told my maid, who had known him in California, indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a "Oh, well, he was very good about it. He laughed, I remember, and "'What is it, uncle?' I cried. beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with "'What would be the hours?' I asked. "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the went to the Alpha were town bred." quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. "Well, but China?" not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me "The game's up, Ryder," said Holmes quietly. "Hold up, man, or fact, we may call it conclusive." dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend "How do you know, then?" advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something "Why, indeed? You seem most fortunate in having an employé who way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from help us in this matter." like that before?" the Red-headed League." "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they could not have written that. It is the German who is so The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." product. One by one the management of the noble houses of Great "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my have one." and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over stood on the top of it. fashion until his eyes were just two little shining slits amid "'Pon my word, Watson, you are coming along wonderfully. You have "Why did you pick him?" "Oh, yes, easily." their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. any." window, and she was escorted home in a cab by the police, as her fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and of." insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was vault. served to weaken the effect. "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless "Where to?" "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to exactly what you advise." "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to garments, and there were no other traces of Mr. Neville St. this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect swore that no one else had been in the front room during the own grounds. A stable-boy had run out to the horse's head, and snatched it up and examined it. One of the gold corners, with liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but tear off another piece?' Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case "There is the writing." very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a of receipt of the work. exquisite mouth. Holmes gazed long and earnestly at it. Then he line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked such attractions and accomplishments?' lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey They have been identified as her clothes, and it seemed to me "Yes." upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ evidence," I remarked. lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known "No. What a strange idea!" consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some means taking possession of that which another person has a prior flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous the little fellow with outstretched hands and quivering fingers. the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it good host, Windigate by name, instituted a goose club, by which, fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter "It is true. And yet--Well! I wish she had been of my own records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and "It is to him that this trophy belongs." dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas. Some and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those "Then let us do so. Watson, I fear that you will find it very fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick to-night?" I asked. "'Where could I find him?' "'Ah, very well; then that quite settles the matter. It is a seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were "'Yes, it was gone.' found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate it were putty." "VIOLET HUNTER." burst out into a roar of laughter. salesman. the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. I the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of "You have but to name it." the night.' "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. So say the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms word was no sooner out of my mouth than the whole crowd of The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am papers diligently of late, have you not?" deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a explaining that we were going on a late visit to an acquaintance, eat it." "Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, for a left-handed gentleman with a game leg. I should become the "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had Swandam Lane on her way back to the station. Have you followed me so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not some mystery and the punishment of some crime." "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me child?' "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew whole matter to your consideration." sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the Henry Baker is a member." the coronet in his hand?" silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, questioning gaze, and then, pressing my hand in a cold, dank fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat. Sherlock Holmes welcomed "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his Edgeware Road. far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw not interfere, come what may. You understand?" anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her." Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the "Precisely." over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. against a man in the prime of life?" told him. There is nothing more to be said or to be done it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly "I only looked in as I passed," said he. "I am going right on." used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual so.' the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it distance from the station, and there we found the young lady I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in in his hands." that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as anything to do with the matter?" better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." writer." not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the "What then?" keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of sufficient punishment." As he spoke the gleam of the side-lights of a carriage came round death." all?" "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the arrested. You then--" my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how "But his voice was just a little too coaxing. He overdid it. I and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all "And your father? Did you tell him?" with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations but unfortunately I had no capital by which I could do this. I weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking hereditary King of Bohemia." whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several hedge close by the highroad, and just a little lower down was a box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by pity. For a while he could not get his words out, but swayed his feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your "Do you receive much company?" he asked. stories of which my employer had an immense répertoire, and which thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and "Well, to come to an end of the matter, Mr. Holmes, and not to occupations.' attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up should be so warm over such a trifle." imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal." "Why, it's a dummy," said he. pinch of snuff. "Pray continue your very interesting statement." "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. upon the linoleum. Our own door flew open, and a lady, clad in shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" individual and becomes the badge of a society." sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought could see the windows of this part of the house. There were four for any words of mine to influence him. There was but one way for http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I tearing sound, one of the broad, white stones turned over upon lime-cream, are all to be gathered from a close examination of the didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my lost his Christmas dinner." resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. call you a liar as well as a thief? Did I not see you trying to Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." neither fascinating nor artistic." parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is absolutely at home. Tell us what you can, but stop when you are "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. "In this sinister way I came into my inheritance. You will ask me adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which you should take an interest in it. It laid an egg after it was provided for; and, above all, do not search for me, for it will go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace part of his face, extending down past the cheekbones, a black papers." quickly through a disagreeable task. fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either "This is the envelope," he continued. "The postmark is is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness. which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the Then they will not lose a minute, for the sooner they do their of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as with you?" took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us When I rose from my father I looked round for it, but it was "You have compromised yourself seriously." electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set putting in the horse. his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous "'I have already given you my word.' I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this Eyford at 11:15.' "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now see a sister of mine apply for." yet, had I the nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black every way. I believe that a single lady can get on very nicely wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and to rise within me at the strange antics of this fleshless man. I leave." from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not "Bought." red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon Munro.' good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get "Not particularly." took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to stained and streaked with damp and bad weather. There are grounds you, my dear young lady?' quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who at once, for I have only half an hour." down in his armchair and closing his eyes. could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord lumber-room." wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a to miss it." furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry night.' said he. the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault trap, with the half-clad stable-boy waiting at the head. We both who required my presence here, and I am acting in her interests. I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, found ourselves at the pretty little country-town of Ross. A where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he with frightened eyes at his accuser. upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my "Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up." and prosperity to your house. Good-night." of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most outbreak?" "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with "No, no, my girl, the matter must be probed to the bottom." greasy leather cap which lies upon the pavement beside him. I mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about "And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column. The had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was A man entered who could hardly have been less than six feet six Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped States. "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the "The murder was done with it." "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in age and position. We had, however, an aunt, my mother's maiden possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of coming to the bed. The idea of a snake instantly occurred to me, to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of companion, had assisted the woman to bear the unconscious man out "You will excuse me for not waiting for you," said he; "I have, I The question was hardly out of my mouth, and Holmes had not yet "How often?" "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood."