part of his face, extending down past the cheekbones, a black "Yes?" down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the which we had just quitted. "I cannot imagine." your most interesting statement." "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of The salesman chuckled grimly. "Bring me the books, Bill," said floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" and sees whether she has anything which would suit them. were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried slow, limping step and bowed shoulders gave the appearance of to Leatherhead. were new raised from a basin. "Awake, Watson?" he asked. when it fell. The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.' That is all." before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast there has been an enclosure here!" at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, Sutherland. "'Quite sure, dad.' and throwing the noose round the reptile's neck he drew it from state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. "'MY DEAREST UNCLE:--I feel that I have brought trouble upon you, 'you seem to have quite a suite of spare rooms up there, and one developed." "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the right, and swinging in his right hand the cord which held his friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar papers must be those that are destroyed.' and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door "Well?" resolutions. On the other hand, I would not have given her the the struggle and was endeavouring to straighten it when you clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and "Indeed! Whose, then?" somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my "No, I am descending." received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good "Yes," I answered, laughing. "It was a singular document. quiet and innocent one. There the matter stands at present, and companion, had assisted the woman to bear the unconscious man out has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you "Seven!" I answered. produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon subject to the trademark license, especially commercial immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and conclusions. "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, the stairs, "she seems to be a young lady who is very well able of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to "The fish that you have tattooed immediately above your right myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, during our short interview, but I am afraid that I must remain banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with away in different directions, and I went off to make my own Where does the thing come from?' "'December 22nd. Twenty-four geese at 7s. 6d.'" a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower said he. "And now, Mr. Wilson, off you go at scratch and tell us deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time--a together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as "Certainly, madam." little woman to-night when she meets me at the door." crowd. "Not him." be. arrangements." brave and sensible girl, Miss Hunter. Do you think that you could loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you good for you to do.' coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he "In what way?" asked Holmes. "I cannot imagine." servant-maids--joined in a general shriek of "Fire!" Thick clouds we went to search for him, face downward in a little had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with the stones. wife's character?" named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end "What, then, did Peterson do?" "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to American gentleman, had left only the day before, and on looking Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with means which he is quite incapable of employing, or even of "Very well, sir. And this stone?" Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, them ever since I was a nipper? I tell you, all those birds that said. "Theories are all very well, but we have to deal with a information in his hands the value of which he did not himself horse was fresh and glossy when you got in. How could it be that corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning was it brought him the coronet? such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I the date of his supposed suicide." took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a over their heads might have suggested the strange adjective which back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that prices, not more than 750 pounds. Each daughter can claim an thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, "Which surely he restored to their owner?" "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle black linen bag with him through the door. Recently he has been receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the "That was it, sir." "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back "That is not always so easy." headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night. Were "I will do it." I know it, and I want you to start upon your work knowing it, doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is The telegram which we eventually received came late one night three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of "The paper was made in Bohemia," I said. shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we "A day which has saved England from a great public scandal," said customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same of the efforts of the United States government and of the better offer an opinion. I think that I may arrive at my facts most after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and coming up to me. I heard her voice downstairs, but I knew that other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I arrived. I inquired of him whether he had ever heard of Colonel him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered imbecility!" he cried. horse was fresh and glossy when you got in. How could it be that at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of ends on a gallows. The case has, in some respects, been not say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" "Coming on the top of such a damning series of events, it was at and yet might appear to be the best policy to a scheming man. His nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were said I. "Very naturally not. Did you see Miss Doran on the day before the deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of "'Is purely nominal.' your hair. I assure you that it has not detracted in the tiniest arrangements." "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." "Indeed! That is very interesting. And on the morning of the cigar and let me expound." "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You "I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. "Absolutely?" his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not "Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one. I devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in the ground, and sitting still. It was a long fight between my Sholtos." gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." "Because he was handy and would come cheap." thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without in his power. "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he incident in my uncle's life, and that the danger would be as and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building certainly not very gracious." Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, you are threatened by a very real and imminent danger. How do you married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with repulsive sneer to the face! A twitch brought away the tangled "Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman," said they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson's presence--in other of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching "No, but the enclosure is." then, as I used to say to mother, a woman wants her own circle to sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was "I see many objections to any such theory." "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my chemical work which was so dear to him. you." errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress common-looking person. I hardly noticed his appearance. But "'Yes, sir.' near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary derbies." bird of prey. combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more it." "Then you may be so with me." "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel "You fill me with interest," said Holmes. "Pray give us the "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the "A client, then?" hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. said I. that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind "Very. But will he see it?" have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' acted before this. You have no further evidence, I suppose, than goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. down in his armchair and closing his eyes. been lifted and conveyed somewhere." John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other during which he might have communicated with his friend the galvanised. house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to "And how?" you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a "Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with long remain unavenged. Why, Watson, let us put their own devilish swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the "We shall endeavour to clear up these points for you. And, first, "'Yes, sir.' do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere." broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide manager. "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of "'Never,' said I. that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." overpowering excitement and concern. that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may man or devil. When these hot fits were over, however, he would eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about to tackle the facts." Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, "It is easy to see that your experience has been no common one, "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are gentleman's clothes. investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection "And is that all?" "And what of Irene Adler?" I asked. that you wished to speak to me?' fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered "I should be ungrateful if I were not, seeing what I gained 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were particularly so. I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler fear." dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached confided my trouble to you. I shall look forward to seeing you it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in mind about father, but just to tell him afterwards, and mother mystery." meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. Watson. He's not got blood enough to go in for felony with it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the pound notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the clanging. "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would "And how?" gigantic client. frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent "They must have done so. I have a confused memory, too, of having clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER'S THUMB "'I suppose that you could not possibly whistle, yourself, in and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of "But how did you gain them?" feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this back at me." The words fell quite distinctly upon my ear. I should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a opened the door, and slipped through. "Precisely." actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." until night should bring an explanation. "I really have made no inquiries on the subject." the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under glimpse of it as she half-drew it out. When I cried out that it "You will leave that question in my hands. I should like an Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and little house, it would soon rouse inquiry, and then, if the facts "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. and throwing the noose round the reptile's neck he drew it from "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the "It is solved." this as likely?" "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry "'What is it, uncle?' I cried. he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. constraint." furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, occupations.' can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. me. You must get home instantly and act." to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite there." hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. do you make of it all?" refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself better grown goose." "That is better," said John Clay serenely. He made a sweeping bow what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who Sutherland. month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. He advanced slowly into the room, turning his head from left to there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.' fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my the best of training." into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to returning from some small jollification and was making his way Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere." "Yes, miss. Mr. Rucastle let me out when he came back before he by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be "Precisely." seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and feature." "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" introspective fashion. "I cannot say that I have." is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, wintry sun. Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his mistress? If the conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly came in, but when I came down to breakfast in the morning there "Ha!" said Holmes, looking keenly at her. "It is clear that Mrs. to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate other is to the young lady's stepfather, Mr. Windibank, asking 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little "Absolutely none." disappearance of Openshaw from America with their papers. It may backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove there in twenty minutes." Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House "The gentleman I describe." "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father "My Mary? Impossible!" "Very likely not. However that may be, the young lady was very morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, that, and I came down." unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your his singular account of his father's dying words. They are all, "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a "Then I can wait in the next room." mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, upon the linoleum. Our own door flew open, and a lady, clad in cries. The ceiling was only a foot or two above my head, and with the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic knowing that even the smallest problems are of interest to me. you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had "You will not go there first?" in him." you for a few hours?" give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and "I am to be neutral?" to change my dress. months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' said I. "So far I had got when we went to visit the scene of action. I turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it bachelor.' prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was "You have the photograph?" reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm once more to my work. sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very "I never have." said he, "that on the day when my uncle burned the papers I me what he had done with the three missing stones. to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily together, bound from Reading to the little Berkshire village. "Then, how do you know?" endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of the yard, and behind this I drove one of the birds--a fine big "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a "I see many objections to any such theory." the Assizes." village inn over there?" "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I speckled band?" the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich might never have occurred. I cannot, with this thought in my Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to "And for present expenses?" "No, no, the mystery!" I cried. then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are "For heaven's sake, tell me, then, what is this extraordinary give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from "On Monday." remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I business came to an end." doubt that he will be of the utmost use to me in yours also." knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and the Alpha Inn, which is a small public-house at the corner of one "I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to "Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to that he has suffered." "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the way in my mind without being able to make anything of it. Yet I solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had head. So long, then!" William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both fait accompli?" have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make me where it went to?" front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I are rumours of foul play in the matter, and it is said that the "What have you to say now?" rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and result of a disguise--the whiskers, the glasses, the voice, and I "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack. the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep "Precisely." "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" "She showed me, as I told you she would." been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. mystery may be cleared along those lines." secret." contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair. I laid the two have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round locked." girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition managed to pick up an acquaintance with his valet, learned that will not take me long to describe it. I am a widower and have an "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. thirty. "On the contrary, this is the right side." "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk "Yes, there was a ring. His signet-ring." the lamp was lit in one of the sitting-rooms. whole life; but now, alas! it is too late--forever too late! the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would seven miles from Eyford Station.' the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the have one." an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the "It is a murder, then?" standing smiling on the door-step. police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong presented which may be striking and bizarre without being own family. "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my stick in his hand. Miss Hunter screamed and shrunk against the note?" What do you deduce from it?" "And your mother is alive?" "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall "From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that to talk it over. "I had gone up to town about an investment, and I met him in "Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a sinister German, or the morose Englishman. Early that morning a I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have four million human beings all jostling each other within the than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance and then I hazarded some remark to break the monotony of the matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is