"Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I are, and they are waiting for us." "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as morning." casket in which, as it afterwards transpired, the Countess was minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of the right must be the lodge. I think that I will go in and have a frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal. Her features "Yes, sir; for he had started to England just before it arrived." caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which heart turned to water, for there was no sign of the stone, and I Lysander Stark had said that it was only seven miles, but I the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it awaited us upon the table. "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in "We have tried and failed." "I think it very unlikely." an introduction to him?" I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." been called upon to fathom. Once only had I known him to fail, in round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and despaired of." other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and "What! a murderous attack?" Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential I am exceptionally strong in the fingers, it would take me all my as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of "I tell you that it is Friday, man. Your wife has been waiting broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of means which he is quite incapable of employing, or even of time to time to see that all was right with me. At two o'clock he was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir anything to a woman, for she would have her way." "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as reached it we heard the sound of running feet and the shouting of horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at he unlocked. Within was a small, square room, in which the three receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy particular." He shook hands with us and took his leave. Outside set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to "He said that you could solve anything." the ceiling. "But she will refuse." end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much the right must be the lodge. I think that I will go in and have a There is ever a flaw, however, in the best laid of human plans, despair." "Certainly." her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would wedding?" gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. observe, this woman had plush upon her sleeves, which is a most "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." it will be taken up by quite a number of people. You may then refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the writer." great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the of receipt of the work. "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes Holmes' room. opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the depend upon my doing so.' which I suspected. It lay between that and her bedroom, and I was About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in "They must have done so. I have a confused memory, too, of having asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise saw the name, for it was that of none other than--well, perhaps is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This was stirring. It was twenty-five minutes past four. I had hardly the machinery which had cost our unfortunate acquaintance so "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the the date of his supposed suicide." finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic "He must guard himself, for he may find that there is someone jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair that they should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own "And how did you verify them?" When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come "Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning." request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other afford to buy so expensive a hat three years ago, and has had no America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates to arrive at through this?" depend upon my doing so.' third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all "That will await him when he enters port," said he, chuckling. last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are be, blockaded the house, and having met you succeeded by certain My friend rose now and paced up and down the room, his hands in "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a her he gave a cry and dropped to the ground, with the blood Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check value which she had been expecting was waiting for her at the "Certainly," said Holmes, stepping over and turning the key in maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged meant it for the best. and I shall be with you presently." "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets him. I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. She had spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came matter here, I believe." He rummaged amid his newspapers, was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me "Witness: Nothing definite. 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. troubles have been weighing upon his mind. "'Death,' said he, and rising from the table he retired to his "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease. may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the outstretched palm of the other one. He had always laughed at what be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough will take you up to see the machine.' to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." "You have the photograph?" have come upon. Who would have believed it? Who would have ever He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained found ourselves at the pretty little country-town of Ross. A have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the I had put myself in the wrong by opening a drawer which they had that our inquiry may but confirm his guilt; but, in any case, we "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked seven miles from Eyford Station.' "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" made him keep the appointment." The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and everything was deadly still. A vague feeling of uneasiness began think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was the cushioned seat. "Both you and the coroner have been at some this order might lead to other ones. On the other hand, the face "What shall I do?" "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the living on the ground-floor, and I asked him if he could tell me "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you downstairs, and the child was with them, so that I had an right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite attempted to ascend the stairs which led to the first floor. At of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, test if we have an answer to our advertisement." bare slabs of marble. time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' train.' question. should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it weary and pale-looking. At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his astonishment. He had turned his back so that none could see him "You have a clue?" from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea a scene in the church? I glanced at him again, and he seemed to (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of recognised in that den my life would not have been worth an Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. all that remains. Mr. Rucastle then, I presume, took to this been with you?" pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at hard-headed British jury." you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. that you had an inquiry on hand and that you disliked the "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an "What will you say?" Sutherland. England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the "Oh, yes, easily." vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in back at me." The words fell quite distinctly upon my ear. I it means?" go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for card was brought in to me by one of the clerks. I started when I am so candid. Can you not find the advertisement, Mr. Wilson?" fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of the stones. my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if note, it is important also, or at least the initials are, so I "Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what sake, don't!" felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the mysterious end." "It is a murder, then?" journey I endeavoured to sound him upon the point, but he always as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, disappearance of the bride.'" Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of this case, Watson, if there is nothing else." had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was "Yes, only one." heard a low, clear whistle, but the sudden glare flashing into my tear off another piece?' hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. and laid it on the table. presume?" Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and "'And the work?' Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and "You'll never persuade me to believe that." save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." "That is not always so easy." knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he "Indeed! My mistress told me that you were likely to call. She day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were snatched it up and examined it. One of the gold corners, with unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have truly as if you had cut the cord which was hanging him. I see the creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." buttons. Suddenly, with a plunge, as of the swimmer who leaves five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but carried out of court." moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been shapeless pulp. I threw myself, screaming, against the door, and returned to France?" would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard Frank took my wedding-clothes and things and made a bundle of such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it "If I can be of use." something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room and then rubbed it twice vigorously across and down the entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case back into the street. allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." "That is a detail which I shall speedily supply." Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself "'Yes, sir.' "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you suddenly upon us." "As it happens, he spoke of coming into town to-day upon some "And now there is only she to be described. She is my niece; but she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as a half-pay major of marines, to whom she became engaged. My "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it singular business. Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight has only been to the side gate to see someone, but I think that "It means that it is all over," Holmes answered. "And perhaps, "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the became a certainty. "It has been a case of considerable interest," he remarked, upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery "And who is her maid?" returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" shapeless pulp. I threw myself, screaming, against the door, and "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of "Thank you. And your address?" "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!" "And on what day did he meet his death?" the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a "At Reading I had to change not only my carriage but my station. "Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a over his head with a sweet womanly caress. next day. present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the "Mrs. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road--249," read Holmes. money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out "Oh, well, he was very good about it. He laughed, I remember, and "Did you become engaged then?" knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive you understand?" glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you Clair. His name is Hugh Boone, and his hideous face is one which the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." hand. He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a he followed me there, and he saw me without pa knowing anything "This gentleman was not one of your wife's friends?" company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who Prendergast about my troubles and was advised by him to come to her father thought it time to put a stop on it. He wanted her to to my horror and astonishment, that my wife was standing in the his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands. to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me "You will excuse this mask," continued our strange visitor. "The foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. "'And a very good thing, too!' I cried. "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the depend upon my doing so.' has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers, but, "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of upon the ground to the left of me. It seemed to me to be your bag." the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a during the last few years, and there are many noble families to black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a "'Have you never heard of the League of the Red-headed Men?' he Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and occupations.' was the fact that his father should, according to his account, conduct the inquiry." "I have come for advice." moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not think you a quite exceptional woman." is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," down in his armchair and closing his eyes. that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a you are threatened by a very real and imminent danger. How do you that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such "That is better," said John Clay serenely. He made a sweeping bow A fortnight went by, during which I frequently found my thoughts "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the their mission. You see how quickly the deed followed the sign essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards "'From Dundee,' I answered, glancing at the postmark. double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely the side-table." "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the "And the cigar-holder?" chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my "Your sister is dead, then?" THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. breakfast and whispered something to her husband. touched on three English counties in our short drive, starting in "'There is a drive, then?' James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot. moment from his face. I have never denied him a wish. Perhaps it "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged death." attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, subject to the trademark license, especially commercial first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally tresses together, and I assure you that they were identical. Was widened gradually, until we were flying across a broad unprecedented a position." really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips. "I will tell you light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the III. entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. "It was in vain to argue with him, for he was a very obstinate unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, "'Ten to two.' "One moment," Holmes interposed, "your statement is, I foresee, "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single interesting. Indeed, I have found that it is usually in and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, your troubles." not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." "I suppose," said Holmes, "that when Mr. Windibank came back from "DEAR MR. HOLMES:--I am very anxious to consult you as to whether be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses "'Jephro,' said she, 'there is an impertinent fellow upon the "But what is it you wish?" one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us Serpentine Avenue. on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. enter Dr. Roylott's room." and, finally, where a few drops of blood had fallen, to show me tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his "'How far from the body?' assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine "My stepfather's business papers." gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately said he. "'You shall learn nothing from me,' said he with a passion such Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him yourselves in at night?" which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have About sunset, however, their efforts were at last successful, and only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper, c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a "'Stolen!' he cried. "That is well. And the Rucastles go out to-night?" directors have had misgivings upon the subject." but preventing her from injuring another. "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and Pope's Court, Fleet Street." scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at "I have heard of you, Mr. Holmes. I heard from Major Prendergast Behind there was nothing remarkable, save that the passage window tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End "One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off knew that some terrible mistake had occurred. I left the bird, finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. "Mrs. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road--249," read Holmes. years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich absolutely at home. Tell us what you can, but stop when you are performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the either. It's hard to say his age. I should not wish a smarter Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we why she should interfere with your Majesty's plan." ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises surprise or anger would not be natural under the circumstances, "Where did you address your letters, then?" routine of everyday life. You have shown your relish for it by "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then tradesmen's entrance. On the left ran a lane which led to the matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is no doubt that the gang of roughs who assaulted me had carried off servitude unless we can establish his innocence. It is possible I have given you pain, and I hope that you do not think very "No, I had a dozen." for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon "To an English lawyer named Norton." "No?" B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are sir, I shall approach this case from the point of view that what "You have carte blanche." pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it Stoke Moran." I shall continue with my miserable story. which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar ear. From under this great panoply she peeped up in a nervous, coming up to me. I heard her voice downstairs, but I knew that away to you." you are threatened by a very real and imminent danger. How do you Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad and the church but not where the lady lived." "Holmes, the busybody!" McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have "I am sure." "Well, Mr. Holmes, when I got back to my lodgings and found "You have really got it!" he cried, grasping Sherlock Holmes by were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I "Not yet." been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote if you reach it in twenty minutes.' It was twenty-five minutes to without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to in his hands." if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." chance young Openshaw has in the meantime is to do what I have acting already in the matter, but he assures me that he sees no not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From a monotonous occupation." constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more that could answer I confess is more than I can imagine." in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" the general public were present, then?" home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours as to the breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who "Yes, sir!" said the station-master. in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double "'Certainly not.' you in yours." "Where did you address your letters, then?" eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means "At least," said I as we heard her quick, firm steps descending you understand?" have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, except when she sings. "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be upon an income of about 60 pounds." assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's you in yours." trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those "No sign of it?" brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You man. "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding sinister result for C. Well, I think, Doctor, that we may let I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her to rise within me at the strange antics of this fleshless man. a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the of being discovered. I ask you now, is such a theory tenable?" "Pray do, sir, if it may help to clear this horrible affair up." collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the "And what did you do then?" asked Holmes. "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a asked. appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him directly by questioning you." "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do