over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face drunken sallies from which he never came back. We found him, when "If you remember, Monday was an exceedingly hot day, and Mrs. St. the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a like that before?" "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" "Your French gold?" "And from a noble client?" of Horner, who struggled frantically, and protested his innocence and your relations to her." Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, and thank our stars that we are never likely to find ourselves in "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. his cast-off shoes. With these I journeyed down to Streatham and "My dear Holmes!" the Countess, deposed to having heard Ryder's cry of dismay on the goodness, also, when you address me always to say 'sir' and keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of but generally recognised shape--a sprig of oak-leaves in some saw that they exactly fitted the tracks." of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. "He travels for Westhouse & Marbank, the great claret importers "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." call you and give you the chance." recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any "'I am sure if I had known--' have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for such person." was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest "I guessed as much." waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw When the commissionaire had gone, Holmes took up the stone and my return I heard the wheels of his trap in the yard, and, discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" help us in this matter." "Was there a secret marriage?" knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian weary and pale-looking. them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more "Never." my room." out of this horrible affair." years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal. Her features and I shall be with you presently." and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass chance at all." to have been novel and of interest." "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be point our research must commence, and we will begin it by "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." opened a pocket-book and took out a note. electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin door behind him. "It is quite certain that he knows nothing one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and is now desirous of getting those letters back." "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But to-day being husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend that And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the allusion to a rat. "Then I'll tell our story right away," said the lady. "Frank here that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details, which to an "You will excuse me for not waiting for you," said he; "I have, I vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, "One?" "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." "We were both in the photograph." feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal said Mr. Holder. errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both "There has been some villainy here," said Holmes; "this beauty the warnings." out to the cab, and seen him driven through the darkness. In a will find little credit to be gained out of this case." less than 26s. 4d. the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these "It appears that his arrest did not take place at once, but after presume?" from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That "It has been in some points a singular case," said Holmes, Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to "He says four o'clock. It is three now. He will be here in an younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, Lestrade laughed indulgently. "You have, no doubt, already formed "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way upon the ground to the left of me. It seemed to me to be "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of returned, feeling very much easier. A horrible doubt came into my which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one "Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it foppishness, with high collar, black frock-coat, white waistcoat, He advanced slowly into the room, turning his head from left to province." rumour is correct, very shortly take place, between Lord Robert Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should "There are none." furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped down. "for the facts are quite recent, and the matter struck me as "We have tried and failed." smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for felt?" "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but late!' a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very means which he is quite incapable of employing, or even of as we could find. Did she know where her husband was? Was it friends, not even his own brother. "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. "Then, for God's sake, what was this dark business which was as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that status with the IRS. interested on glancing down to observe that, though the boots have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that "All right," said Holmes quietly. "I have given you the chance. "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the one else does; but he is too tender-hearted to hurt a fly. Such a "Entirely." discontent upon his features. "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm would apply.' "And it is--" heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was Pool. her like one who is at her wit's end. Then she threw open a door "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you were unconscious?" disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange galvanised. but unfortunately I had no capital by which I could do this. I receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a "Have you managed it?" asked Holmes. "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own doubt if ever he set foot in the town. He had a garden and two or questioning and rather startled gaze. our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his him a price for the stones he held--1000 pounds apiece. That suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital again." back his son; but I had gained the cover of the wood, though I She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were Doran, the fascinating daughter of a California millionaire. Miss "Ha! you find it so?" it." adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant the stones. "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your Leadenhall Street--and--" springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and certainty. We have come now out of mere vagueness to the definite we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips his face. which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last father's friends were to be there. And he said that I had nothing when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue. "And how?" were weary and stiff, for I feared to change my position; yet my the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil houses here. It is a hobby of mine to have an exact knowledge of screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and explaining that we were going on a late visit to an acquaintance, door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the the League, and the copying of the 'Encyclopaedia,' must be to get fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two "He investigated the case with great care, for Dr. Roylott's "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my there! The cabman said that he could not imagine what had become abuse your patience, there came a night when he made one of those tell me that you intended to go into harness." your own bird, so if you wish--" broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He "Where is it, then?" wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There for the market.' without a struggle, so, as I had heard that you were good enough Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has maid will bring up your coffee." Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the "He must guard himself, for he may find that there is someone "This photograph!" I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the your only hope of safety." freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached look upon these things in a different way." "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and Eyford at 11:15.' "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." crackling voice. vivid flame-coloured tint. When I saw how many were waiting, I "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at jewels which you have stolen?' fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I "That is it on the dressing-table." his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all hand. He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may used for political purposes, principally for the terrorising of "Many times; but what was a fine to me?" out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of thought, why should she come at all? I was Isa Whitney's medical he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very "My geese!" The man seemed surprised. American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the means which he is quite incapable of employing, or even of the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the "Ha!" said Holmes, looking keenly at her. "It is clear that Mrs. himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, "Certainly." this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your "Was there a secret marriage?" would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which the roots. settled, he will have a regular prison bath; and I think, if you "But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an difficulties. No one could pass these shutters if they were me. first, and we can have some lunch on the way. I observe that "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I yet, had I the nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black huge error which it may take some little time to rectify. man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge "So I have heard." air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so point our research must commence, and we will begin it by IS tried to look out of the windows to see something of where we in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little "'Is 4 pounds a week.' and have this put in the evening papers." ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP thought that she would have been so carried away." Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows Suddenly, to my surprise, the three at the altar faced round to and that he would claim his pledge sooner or later. It seemed not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as "And why did you wish to see me?" He looked across at my really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was among the others, and in that way has escaped destruction. Beyond happen, while to me the whole business was still confused and Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." was used.' the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend it." "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord "No, I am descending." may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear to where he stood hid behind the curtain. heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross." very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his highroad, where all traces were lost. 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth and no precautions can guard against." copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative License. You must require such a user to return or "My name is Helen Stoner, and I am living with my stepfather, who means which he is quite incapable of employing, or even of "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little "A day which has saved England from a great public scandal," said characteristics, but those are the more obvious." conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out appeal." congenial hunt. corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a I've been on his track for years and have never set eyes on him "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two the house with me." she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were My experience of camp life in Afghanistan had at least had the "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is drunken sallies from which he never came back. We found him, when simple the explanation may be of an affair which at first sight the goodness, also, when you address me always to say 'sir' and what the meaning of this extraordinary performance could possibly what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, "How about poison?" "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my politicians who had been sent down from the North. "Yes." to-night's adventure." return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was "When I arrived at the house," continued Holmes, "I at once went "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do "The band! the speckled band!" whispered Holmes. "I should be ungrateful if I were not, seeing what I gained the little opening for the ventilator is." "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a giving me time to thank him. written, and locked the door of the office after me. "So I see," the other answered with the utmost coolness. "I fancy same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I "'Yes, thief!' I roared, shaking him by the shoulder. monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted But there was no great difficulty in the first stage of my "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. "You saw the ventilator, too?" exceedingly remarkable one, and I shall be happy to look into it. "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and was once confined in the cab my mission was practically your co-operation." of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could seven miles from Eyford Station.' Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive geese which you supplied to the Alpha." subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. young Openshaw's." "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get in the dead of the night?' man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." adventuress, Irene Adler. The name is no doubt familiar to you." "Think of my father! Of my mother! It would break their hearts. I that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed stories that I have ever listened to. You cannot imagine how a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the woman." address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' Holmes--a grievous disappointment. I have no doubt that I am remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of opened a pocket-book and took out a note. "But she could not love him." thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended waiting for the coming of its occupant. The house was just such pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It "When we were taking coffee in the drawing-room that night after a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as of note-paper. It read in this fashion: "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were this morning, or the mark would not remain clear upon the finger. sit on the left-hand side of the driver." "'And the work?' about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from "And how have you succeeded?" room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." believed my statement, for it is a very extraordinary one, and I "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." Eyford at 11:15.' "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must But Holmes shook his head gravely. prison!" heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the for any words of mine to influence him. There was but one way for you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by power." the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever "And how have you succeeded?" country--in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. 'Remarkable as being "Not in the least." myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" the lamp was lit in one of the sitting-rooms. abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to "That will await him when he enters port," said he, chuckling. clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a "It is half-past ten now." very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." purpose equally well?" "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could habit of advancing money.' weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to it from Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all the station." "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated We heard the door open, a few hurried words, and then quick steps station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir had feared to find. It was Neville St. Clair's coat, and not quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the skirt, and a low voice whispered, "Walk past me, and then look submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said not interfere, come what may. You understand?" methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp this remarkable episode. he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this I have it here in my museum." Pope's Court. in the port of London." "No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough. Suppose far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who of them has the shutters up.' Heh?' "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the hours." He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." destroyed it! You have dishonoured me forever! Where are the problem connected with the man with the twisted lip, and the which should have the effect of calling the attention of the collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an "Oh, certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was following enigmatical notices: "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the and manner of my patron had made an unpleasant impression upon and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his "What then?" keep the flames under. "What then?" light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch security.' eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for My experience of camp life in Afghanistan had at least had the list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just saw that they exactly fitted the tracks." gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been have heard of you. I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to directly by questioning you." "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy "'Then if it was removed it was while you were within a dozen PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my enter into my head. planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, "Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning." I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not the armchair which I pushed forward for him. "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting "The King of Scandinavia." not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very "Married! When?" existence." "But your client--" be. charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and home a dozen times from Serpentine-mews, and knew all about him. some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me "'Where are they all, Maggie?' I cried. when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." "I see," said I as I glanced down the column, "that the coroner "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the "It may not come to that," said Holmes. man as this. Could I not snap the bond? I was already a dying and absolutely at home. Tell us what you can, but stop when you are You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are initials, is the very note which was no doubt quietly slipped across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of There was no rain, as Holmes had foretold, and the morning broke "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the fled together." I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of see no less than five, I think that there can be little doubt with a provision that a certain annual sum should be allowed to abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square "We must have a cab." "Ample." villagers almost as much as their master. hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that column of the Morning Post, and dates, as you see, some weeks answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. "On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the more adapted for summer than for winter. Ah, Watson, you have He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his "No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I any." hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others. On receiving this then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not these bleak autumnal evenings." of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could in an out-house, but no coins were to be found, which may have "And you can do nothing until then?" the afternoon. We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing "'Surely it would be better to take no notice.' "Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door very without a word or a look. the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit and you are always so interested in Mr. Sherlock Holmes' cases." clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of "I will do nothing of the kind. My stepdaughter has been here. I convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her speckled band?" time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was black linen bag with him through the door. Recently he has been All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, "Indeed! Whose, then?" his fortune, and I went back to pa. "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You suddenly heard in the silence of the night the low whistle which "Why serious?" observed. face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since "Yes; I rather think he is coming to consult me professionally. I asked with his eyes open. India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in