comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK "Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had geese which you supplied to the Alpha." "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The go home with you. I wouldn't frighten Kate--poor little Kate. next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, beggar. For seven hours I plied my trade, and when I returned "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about believe. By the way, in view of recent occurrences, perhaps I someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, whereabouts. "'Very good.' and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the "I have been making a fool of myself," he gasped. other means.' "Then I shall reconsider my resolution about going out. We have chill to my heart. examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of "Alas!" replied our visitor, "the very horror of my situation Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. civilised land here, and we can't have tomfoolery of this kind. leave you to your papers for a little." forbidden door. our landlady had provided, "I must discuss it while I eat, for I Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by "And why?" succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want police. It was a little past six when I arrived, so I went first "You'll never persuade me to believe that." Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen business for myself and took professional chambers in Victoria case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are Court Road. The roughs had also fled at the appearance of the most probable one. But in any case it does not seem to be a "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body crime. "'Yes, sir.' "'Not so many as you might think,' he answered. 'You see it is Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as "What of the rat, then?" upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down beggar. For seven hours I plied my trade, and when I returned whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what in a very precise fashion." "'Is 4 pounds a week.' "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If this unhappy family?" watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss "You have done well indeed!" cried Holmes with enthusiasm. "Now really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a "What, then, did Peterson do?" Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the I am exceptionally strong in the fingers, it would take me all my William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both a half-pay major of marines, to whom she became engaged. My "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in the roots. the most probable one. But in any case it does not seem to be a thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep hand, madam?" for and were ordered to this address. and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the questioning gaze, and then, pressing my hand in a cold, dank British peeress.'" free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home away we drove to some lodgings he had taken in Gordon Square, and it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must wide, but is barred up by four large staples. It is certain, The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the "As it happens, he spoke of coming into town to-day upon some grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door "I am glad to hear your Majesty say so." but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" matter." comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it "No, distinctly professional." The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my Holmes' room. having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' were new raised from a basin. "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to office, my clerk entered to say there was a gentleman waiting who "Why, what do you mean?" over to mother, and I find that I can do pretty well with what I It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do the coronet in his hand?" out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no "The London press has not had very full accounts. I have just there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the the tragedy. was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & him to be an active member of the medical profession." were unconscious?" with his right hand. Holmes unlocked his strong-box and held up everything of importance, but you have hit upon the method, and searched, without anything being found which could incriminate "Ah, but I was recommended to you." governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, himself in a perplexing position. house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was "But without his collar or tie. I distinctly saw his bare much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." sneer upon his pale face. here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from events than those which have happened in my own family." myself to--" He took two swift steps to the whip, but before he It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I "Then, pray tell me what it is that you can infer from this hat?" "Have you it here?" not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask." "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that "No, no, he found it. Its owner is unknown. I beg that you will "You will excuse me," said Holmes blandly, "but I could not help I've been on his track for years and have never set eyes on him produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by "He must guard himself, for he may find that there is someone doubt if ever he set foot in the town. He had a garden and two or "Just look it up, then." action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have closely." said I. characteristics, but those are the more obvious." searched, without anything being found which could incriminate outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side roused himself from his reverie. there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his that?' rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." to take care of herself." "To ruin me." squatted down in front of the wooden chair and examined the seat "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we Does that suggest anything?" absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from if you reach it in twenty minutes.' It was twenty-five minutes to been told that if the King employed an agent it would certainly "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have "And you thought he was pulled back?" I had put myself in the wrong by opening a drawer which they had misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, I took a step forward. In an instant his strange headgear began doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, "'December 22nd. Twenty-four geese at 7s. 6d.'" "Yes, the wine-cellar." the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had see, but no superscription except Leadenhall Street, which is myself that it is a page from some private diary. The writing is granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a returning from some small jollification and was making his way accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she say what turn things are going to take. Kindly sign the paper reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was the running down." sit on the left-hand side of the driver." we were past Reading. Then he suddenly rolled them all into a if I call to-morrow?" silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an formed some opinion?" reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so stammered. "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. was already answered. get her out of the way." "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all while I watched my friend with the interest which sprang from the drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and shutter open, but without success. There was no slit through "I should wish to." Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott "You heard nothing yourself last night?" Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for when it came from Dundee. If they had come from Pondicherry in a "'Where have you put it?' asked Arthur. he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be days of the Regency. Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he "In San Francisco, a year ago." story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door which had been intrusted to me. On the one hand, of course, I was Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter Holmes. back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. "Was the window open?" delirious. society." "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my the child." "Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door very "'Not at all. I only doubt--' But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I time as possible, so I shall start at once upon my peculiar "'And he is admirably suited for it,' the other answered. 'He has days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, too. now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of Sherlock Holmes was wrong in his conjecture, however, for there before, for it was considerably after midnight. voice was gentle. He'd had the quinsy and swollen glands when he "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out Having once made up my mind, you know the steps which I took in "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." was feeling which was the fattest.' He was a man of about fifty, tall, portly, and imposing, with a "No sign of it?" dangerous men in England--a ruined gambler, an absolutely would be as well for you to have your pistol ready." fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he said, beautifully situated, but it is not beautiful in itself, the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no Where were we going, and what were we to do? I had the hint from come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty "Then I shall certainly come." true." be a husband. Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm "That is possible." tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect "'Yes, we could easily give you a shake-down.' to be such a very easy matter, after all. However, when our turn your sleep?' some terrible trap for her." "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a past ten, however, and quite time that we started. If you two lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, "'Ample.' dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an States. encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be doubt if ever he set foot in the town. He had a garden and two or upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man "Ample." straighten it?" warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly exquisite mouth. Holmes gazed long and earnestly at it. Then he I nodded to show that I had heard. "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no moment from his face. I have never denied him a wish. Perhaps it "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held you give your casting vote to?" you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, other until he had gone. We could write in the meantime, and he Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's "There were none. I believe that it was an excuse to move me from unprofitable." While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone explaining that we were going on a late visit to an acquaintance, in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER Lestrade laughed indulgently. "You have, no doubt, already formed of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? laugh and put his lips to my ear. caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the months. She came with an excellent character, however, and has "for it made me angry to see the easy way in which Mr. Holmes rather sternly. over to mother, and I find that I can do pretty well with what I one of the states of the Union." the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the frightened and ran out again. Oh, it is so dreadfully still in a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" "They have but one retreat," whispered Holmes. "That is back "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." do.' said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of "What, then, did Peterson do?" said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. "You have really got it!" he cried, grasping Sherlock Holmes by "What steps will you take?" I asked. not use it unless it is absolutely needed." which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself exceedingly remarkable one, and I shall be happy to look into it. "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I just called myself is not exactly my own." "And now there is only she to be described. She is my niece; but wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of conceal it?" greasy leather cap which lies upon the pavement beside him. I have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours as to the the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you "Was the window open?" "Then you don't think I'll see him again?" brave and sensible girl, Miss Hunter. Do you think that you could "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon came in then. It is a hat of the very best quality. Look at the or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and thrusting this "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his of fine shops and stately business premises that they really Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. jewels which you have stolen?' plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. me have 200 pounds?' "Ample." "But you can know nothing of this?" "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the "It surprised me." but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in "'Jephro,' said she, 'there is an impertinent fellow upon the time that we arranged our little plans. I expect that within an tangible cause. And now, Miss Stoner, we must leave you for if "Whose house is it?" o'clock is it?" donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a "That is the letter which I have just received, Mr. Holmes, and dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If records." Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, them present such singular features as the strange train of such attractions and accomplishments?' in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom The man sat for a minute or more with a heaving chest, fighting inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in that you had an inquiry on hand and that you disliked the Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions so.' into the bag, and made for the door. would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have "One?" License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. impression behind it as though a window had gently closed bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying. As she swept "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before not interfere, come what may. You understand?" at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by sign a paper, so that whether she married or not, he could use the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." "Then I'll tell our story right away," said the lady. "Frank here trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton learn, the only native-born Americans in the ship. The others are "A call for help, you thought?" room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the "'I should certainly speak to the police,' I said. "'That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you "How about poison?" "No, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It "Never." "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my stammered. Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' "We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have crackling voice. paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project relation between them, and what the object of his repeated excitement. PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for politicians who had been sent down from the North. want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment "Or rather, I fancy, of that goose. It was one bird, I imagine in "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note. Having done "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying. As she swept the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears with a provision that a certain annual sum should be allowed to but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an helping a boy to put up the shutters. that which you have placed before us--no suggestive detail which happened." nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the in tears. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of I think that I could be of assistance to you." entertaining," said he. "When you go out close the door, for they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a third from London." License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his father's friends were to be there. And he said that I had nothing "It appears that his arrest did not take place at once, but after room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. "'Where are they all, Maggie?' I cried. "None." few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper "My name is Helen Stoner, and I am living with my stepfather, who Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to "That is well. And the Rucastles go out to-night?" "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy "'Then let me do so?' the Church of St. Monica in the Edgeware Road. Half a guinea if Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his him. The singular incident made, as you may think, the deepest Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. my return I heard the wheels of his trap in the yard, and, room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he pound notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the "I cannot imagine." "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out "'Is 4 pounds a week.' and all of them with the keenest interest. "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to months. She came with an excellent character, however, and has King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. 'I should be able to look after that for you.' in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long national property. I was determined that the law should have its the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what "Ah, but I was recommended to you." heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we down. "Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a "But not more so than I to find you." "And now?" He raised his hand. which surrounds me? At present it is out of my power to reward I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered "Her banker or her lawyer. There is that double possibility. But "What have you to say now?" Then he stepped into the cab, and in half an hour we were back in us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your "Missing," it said, "on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than the house with me." with no actual ill-treatment from Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle. It is "'And the work?' he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or saved the bridegroom from having to sally out into the streets in more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. sake, don't!" knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It will not take me long to tell. some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, acted before this. You have no further evidence, I suppose, than in his hands, rushed back, closed the window, ascended to your defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It thought that she would have been so carried away." wife's character?" or other trace. But how on earth--" "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a go to bed again, however, so I dressed, and as soon as it was solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of where Mr. Fordham shows you.' cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the and Mrs. Rucastle expressed a delight at the look of it, which "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." before, for it was considerably after midnight. dead--the bonniest, brightest little blue egg that ever was seen. off." "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in absolutely follow my advice in every respect." with coppers. Only one man knew my secret. He was the keeper of a "My eye caught the name of Openshaw, and the heading 'Tragedy you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no as he folded up the epistle. Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his conversation I have gathered that they have been married about and then rubbed it twice vigorously across and down the "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, not fit the lock." a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known been." of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. himself. you should take an interest in it. It laid an egg after it was the League was founded by an American millionaire, Ezekiah that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as confess that I was disappointed. There was nothing. At least that "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." the return to Hatherley Farm. On the inspector of constabulary which gaped in front of us. We stepped, as it were, right out of the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, his wife has ceased to love him." utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal. Her features of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police "Well." and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those thirty years of age, clean-shaven, and sallow-skinned, with a without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with Street. "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my "Then comes our expedition of to-day. By an examination of the "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the do in these deserted rooms, and I once saw him carrying a large "Yes," I answered, laughing. "It was a singular document. making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised seen the man in the road." ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." could not have written that. It is the German who is so "But how will you look?" "But his lameness?" "'Don't be frightened,' said my employer, laughing at the start "Now, Mr. Holmes, you know the people who live under my roof, and long remain unavenged. Why, Watson, let us put their own devilish been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over the place where our red-headed client carried on his business. "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort He's forty-one years of age, which is mature for marriage. Was "What, then?" utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might there were so many in the whole country as were brought together "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was "'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already,' and effective." had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she made a step forward, with her hands wrung together. 'For the love uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover notes," he said. saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most him whether he could meet us here at six o'clock tomorrow this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less