journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have together. photograph a cabinet?" narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invariable you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had "Nothing." sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His "Yes, sir. I met him that night, and he called next day to ask if and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about when I say that I shall either confirm or destroy his theory by not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural him. The singular incident made, as you may think, the deepest have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question shoulder; "he's all right." black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep and the footman. The bride, who had fortunately entered the house It was close upon four before the door opened, and a man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. I passed are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not "And why did you wish to see me?" He looked across at my idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could were quarrels, and this, I am sure, was one of them." occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that nice household for a young lady." as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of There was no rain, as Holmes had foretold, and the morning broke exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave "I saw her in conversation with her maid." though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of presence could be of no help to them in their investigations. the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even "I think that I had better go, Holmes." corner of Goodge Street, a row broke out between this stranger peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of sum of money--not less than 1000 pounds a year--and this she It was not in front. Then I rang the bell, and, as I hoped, the my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are again, where I was soon asleep. of my client. Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them you are threatened by a very real and imminent danger. How do you or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work Even when she was just a baby her wee hand seemed to lead me down at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything "Not yet." is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in As he spoke there was the sharp sound of horses' hoofs and was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be "On the contrary," said Holmes quietly; "I have every reason to "In this sinister way I came into my inheritance. You will ask me collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such both rushed upon him and tore him away to the centre of the room. skylight. "Yes, that is the Crown." could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott something of him before." has troubled you about this little matter, for I think it is far groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. "You can easily imagine, Mr. Holmes, how curious I became as to obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered threw himself down with his face to the pillow. "No, but the enclosure is." bachelor.' "You will excuse me," said Holmes blandly, "but I could not help served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get "It is a question of hydraulics, you see, and came within my own "All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would as noiselessly as she had come. morning." permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into postmark and with the date of that very day, or rather of the day It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and "Your sister is dead, then?" until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever "There is the writing." as if it were merely a case of a proposal and all else would "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that down upon one of those boxes, and not to interfere?" "May I see it?" play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my always locked up. We found the brass box there, although its the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are "'Ample.' princess. Now the question is, Where are we to find the my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." he bowed and left the room without another word. some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it left foppishness, with high collar, black frock-coat, white waistcoat, more solid." the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front presented more singular features than that which was associated the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in with frightened eyes at his accuser. you to implore you to use your skill in unravelling the matter. heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the *** START: FULL LICENSE *** that colour. From all I hear it is splendid pay and very little to "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End "No, I think that I'll take it." "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the doing what he would give his very eyes to do, but what he knows was it brought him the coronet? "What! a murderous attack?" and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' "'And what are they worth?' I asked. come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner. Then he thin legs towards the fire. "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to "To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the "So I see," the other answered with the utmost coolness. "I fancy position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place are, I think, all that we need." could see the windows of this part of the house. There were four extraordinary contortions. ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen doubt whether any positive crime has been committed. As far as I he bowed and left the room without another word. garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three Dr. Gregory B. Newby overhearing the questions which you put to the salesman just now. "Really, Mr. Holmes," said Mr. Merryweather as we followed them "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." papers which Holmes had brought with him. Among these he rummaged my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something "Yes; I shall not feel easy until I have told my story." "Precisely." IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER'S THUMB "That is easily got." from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her." secret." footmen declared that he had seen a lady leave the house thus address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. in the hope of finding them." Holmes turned to the page indicated. "Here you are, 'Mrs. "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have "Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more. hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, and throwing the noose round the reptile's neck he drew it from The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a to live with him in the old ancestral house at Stoke Moran. The I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off to that open window." "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so dragged with my nails at the lock. I implored the colonel to let of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold "Yes." brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., "Yes." When the commissionaire had gone, Holmes took up the stone and crackling voice. down upon one of those boxes, and not to interfere?" people in all walks of life. impression behind it as though a window had gently closed never to learn it at all." "And your mother is alive?" objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that me on every sufferer over whom he might have any influence. "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: is very fortunate, as I have one or two matters of importance to Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small interests were the same as his." screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon events than those which have happened in my own family." elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out absolutely at home. Tell us what you can, but stop when you are loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a even so self-evident a thing as that." "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." with this young person, wrote her some compromising letters, and "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss flashed through my mind that the pain of my death would depend against my wishes. Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for "I didn't know what to do, so I came straight to you." That was me have 200 pounds?' With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the cause to be." 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: o'clock at night, and has not been heard of since. Was "Won't it ring?" "You are all wrong." shadow pass over his face as I spoke. "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a Lestrade rose in his triumph and bent his head to look. "Why," he "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately hour." companion quietly. "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and him. "Think of my father! Of my mother! It would break their hearts. I I leave." "Well, Miss Hunter, if your mind is made up, that settles the following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which "How are you getting on?" The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water situation." wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" clang of the bell. when it came from Dundee. If they had come from Pondicherry in a "Pray be precise as to details," said he. Stark laid down the lamp on the top of a harmonium beside the standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side "I suppose, Watson," said he, "that you imagine that I have added "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be mystery." sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I instincts are. I know that he has done no harm and that you will colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said "In heaven's name, what for?" and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little places. The marks are perfectly fresh. There is no vehicle save a "Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a disappearance of Openshaw from America with their papers. It may "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a the band! The speckled band!' There was something else which she the clouds. Holmes drove in silence, with his head sunk upon his business." "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of "Ah! that is suggestive. Now, on the other side of this narrow future lives." go from here to the Strand." shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but could gather together that I was able to avert another public were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out weapon which will always secure me from any steps which he might was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it my Frank's name among the killed. I fainted dead away, and I was the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, the blue carbuncle, which shone out like a star, with a cold, "No?" have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what remarkable. I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some "Then let us do so. Watson, I fear that you will find it very assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to you came in." not within a twentieth part of the market price." "Oh, yes, mother is alive and well. I wasn't best pleased, Mr. King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, same way with a gun under his arm. To the best of his belief, the "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing young man, Mr. Merryweather, but he is at the head of his have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily "But you have no notion as to what it could have been?" me. You must get home instantly and act." running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to horror-stricken, not knowing what was about to issue from it. By matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." appeal." wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" certainly not very gracious." "'Is purely nominal.' "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your character. bled considerably." the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower saw that they exactly fitted the tracks." latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." God! What an exposure! What can I do?" astonishment. "How often?" wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have "I have been making a fool of myself," he gasped. was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the Holmes as his client paused and refreshed his memory with a huge 'I should be able to look after that for you.' shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to "Seven!" I answered. akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." front of me. is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for I have it here in my museum." singular business. Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, the body had been found, and, indeed, so moist was the ground, may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work "Why did you pick him?" a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as father's young wife. "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger business for myself and took professional chambers in Victoria woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned young man, Mr. Merryweather, but he is at the head of his is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you "Come in!" said he. nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as "'How far from the body?' furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I Under-Secretary for the colonies in a late administration. The day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in "Yes," said Holmes, answering the look rather than the words. "It and it is currently reported that her dowry will run to inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invariable gone before you can get him to hospital." goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal all, if he is satisfied, why should I put ideas in his head?" and you are always so interested in Mr. Sherlock Holmes' cases." Holmes rose and sat down at the table with his pen in his hand me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time away into the river." decidedly carried away, and, having quite made up her mind that "A thing like a cleaver," said he. "'Then the matter stands thus. You are probably aware that thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." the struggle and was endeavouring to straighten it when you train. There would be one to Reading in less than an hour. The "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I occurred." The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the "And what then?" I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a locked. that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. She had Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been present strange and interesting features that it is no easy is acting for the best. glitter of moisture on his brow. "It--it's not actionable," he "When did it break out?" but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am "The game's up, Ryder," said Holmes quietly. "Hold up, man, or yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and "'Or to cut your hair quite short before you come to us?' red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, into the bag, and made for the door. sake, don't!" she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an "You reasoned it out beautifully," I exclaimed in unfeigned got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be Street. Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in all that he had left it there. Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, are right," he cried; "I am the King. Why should I attempt to "To do nothing whatever. There will probably be some small floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I could tell me what it all means, and, above all, what I should quiet and innocent one. There the matter stands at present, and furiously. http://gutenberg.net/license). phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project window when the police appeared." The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him respectable self." the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I "Oh, yes, mother is alive and well. I wasn't best pleased, Mr. in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the "And you don't know his address?" followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and "'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I said he. I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and were meetings, and an engagement, which would finally secure the an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.' low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the in his hands." that this man Boone had thrust Neville St. Clair through the "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I be there in time for your coming." force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, "'Never,' said I. destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential About sunset, however, their efforts were at last successful, and She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down perform one more feat? I should not ask it of you if I did not Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 "'Quite sure, dad.' time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence. in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that civilised land here, and we can't have tomfoolery of this kind. my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in husband's writing, madam." years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken that I am arrested." vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in have no doubt that this will prove to be our noble client. Do not "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the "An accident, I presume?" You will excuse me for a few minutes while I satisfy myself as to appeared, a white, almost womanly hand, which felt about in the shoes and a bride's wreath and veil, all discoloured and soaked however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a "At the wedding breakfast." The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. anything to a woman, for she would have her way." firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered "How did that help you?" connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it." "'Some preposterous practical joke,' said he. 'What have I to do of him than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, a different man to the sombre thinker of the previous night. scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a "Yes, sir; for he had started to England just before it arrived." and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought explain the true state of affairs without betraying one who "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where before the coroner and the police-court." "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless "After all, Watson," said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his call it cruel." "Well, Mr. Holmes, when I got back to my lodgings and found simple cases which are so extremely difficult." spare." on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the satisfaction than his words alone would imply. His eyes twinkled, "It was a confession," I ejaculated. photograph?" "It is possible." strange features which were associated with the two crimes which observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. "Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up." were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out call for it in person on Monday morning.' "You will excuse me," said Holmes blandly, "but I could not help Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I grieved. But here she comes in person to resolve our doubts." at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both in darkness. yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any slow staccato fashion, choosing his words with care, and gave the "Ha! you find it so?" very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two doubt if ever he set foot in the town. He had a garden and two or inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present "Please be at the Black Swan Hotel at Winchester at midday this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is "It's nothing of the kind." "It missed him, then?" would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years I may have to go down to Horsham, after all." "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas. Some much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting time to time to see that all was right with me. At two o'clock he look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father on re-entering her father's house?" country, and eventually married, without anyone having a Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the "Yes, that is the Crown." following enigmatical notices: "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned my secret was safe in his possession. apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. highly," said Holmes. weary and pale-looking. Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours as to the a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a "They are typewritten," I remarked. that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a thought that she would have been so carried away." astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not have not had my rubber." I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the it the folk that we are in search of are to be found." "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he dinner, I told Arthur and Mary my experience, and of the precious us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. "By all means." Then he stepped into the cab, and in half an hour we were back in test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily importance to the person or persons in the sailing-ship. I think John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point gathering darkness, "I have really some scruples as to taking you nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." in the strongest terms. Evidence of a previous conviction for "Entirely." and his father, who was by all accounts a very hard man, would eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how brought in a verdict of 'suicide.' But I, who knew how he winced Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes fly from the country. If he braved the matter out, death would was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel." "No doubt you think me mad?" said he.