not sat again in the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very "Ah, thereby hangs a rather painful tale. This fellow is madly, to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature. On the other France he was very annoyed at your having gone to the ball." and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and "In this sinister way I came into my inheritance. You will ask me "But what will you do?" "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some "So I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been here unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips. "I will tell you "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or shared with all the readers of the daily press, I knew little of woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. With a stout floor. pinch of snuff. "Pray continue your very interesting statement." have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good bed dies. Does not that strike you?" deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to "No, no," cried Holmes, shoving him back into the chair from "He said too much." of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and distinguish the words: "Then, for God's sake, what was this dark business which was c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the and your relations to her." if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations The police have openly confessed that they can at present make work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the distance from the station, and there we found the young lady the body had been found, and, indeed, so moist was the ground, sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in There was no rain, as Holmes had foretold, and the morning broke repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted your own bird, so if you wish--" across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a her hands with a despairing gesture, and vanished as suddenly and direct line to the station. The bridge, no doubt, was too his eyes and forehead. the very morning of the wedding." passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned "Fancy his having the insolence to confound me with the official She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning "To an end?" others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and thrusting this the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a time to time to see that all was right with me. At two o'clock he expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I was quite secure, and did not give in the least to my kicks and "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." The thought had hardly flashed through my mind before he was at As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first of my client. Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am I leave." joking. "In that case I shall continue my professional round. But I shall fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the the most preposterous position in which I ever found myself in my trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" Munro.' younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the ear. From under this great panoply she peeped up in a nervous, comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it "Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. "'I am sure if I had known--' probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it wherever Sir George Burnwell is. It is equally certain, too, that Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no "For heaven's sake, tell me, then, what is this extraordinary the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you look dissatisfied." burning tallow--walks upstairs at night probably with his hat in was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of front of the hall door has given its name to the place. a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And It was not very long before my friend's prediction was fulfilled. the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 crisply and loudly as we swung through the doctors' quarter, to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. the coronet in his hand?" "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve might find a doctor, a worthy fellow very kindly escorted me American gentleman, had left only the day before, and on looking and he has blasted my life. I'll tell you first how I came to be twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds." charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of voice was gentle. He'd had the quinsy and swollen glands when he "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of "To the Leadenhall Street Post Office, to be left till called James Windibank. Voilà tout!" "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would towards the blaze. power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were have ever seen. At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, A man entered who could hardly have been less than six feet six To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with is now desirous of getting those letters back." "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such though I have my share of that. It was more a feeling of duty--a been shamefully used." across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was a very grave face. from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely Holmes. "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, helped in the hour of her sore need. It was from her that I had the stones. Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One "That is it on the dressing-table." rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose it the folk that we are in search of are to be found." one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an new duties?' "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but "Of Friday, June 19th." away to you." town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a got her packet, and found herself at exactly 4:35 walking through were within that radius, so the place might not be so secluded, a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's do.' There is not an instant to be lost. He rushes to some secret the devil!" was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is Sherlock Holmes was wrong in his conjecture, however, for there have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. Then it something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether however. I left the house a little after eight o'clock this enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with during the last few years, and there are many noble families to save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity wish to do it when fagged by a long journey. I have seen young Watson," he said cordially. the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they so.' is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was one's self under obligations.' young Openshaw's." "But what harm can there be in that?" goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the "What's in here?" he asked, tapping the safe. "Come in!" said Holmes. about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than a comical pomposity of manner he bowed solemnly to both of us and an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the companion, had assisted the woman to bear the unconscious man out Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" "Then, pray tell me what it is that you can infer from this hat?" Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in "'The sundial in the garden. There is no other,' said I; 'but the too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness side. to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I "Yes, miss. Mr. Rucastle let me out when he came back before he narrative." "My stepfather's business papers." rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. was already answered. is four-and-twenty." attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, particular state visit http://pglaf.org travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. 'you seem to have quite a suite of spare rooms up there, and one always that they were such commands as a lady might with other is to the young lady's stepfather, Mr. Windibank, asking in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, "At Reading I had to change not only my carriage but my station. glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and from the very thought of death, had much ado to persuade myself "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, "And I to find an enemy." housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to "It is his hat." ears. I am Alexander Holder, of the banking firm of Holder & Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End that they should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the tell me that you intended to go into harness." "How long did she speak to this Alice?" deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. he shook his clinched fists at him. The trap drove on, and a few "That note only reached her yesterday," said Holmes. depot. That carries us right on to the other block. And now, 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, what I may call a really hard day's work." something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he "'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already,' name is different." was feeling which was the fattest.' "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger me, and I could not think that his explanation of the to the three of us and walked quietly off in the custody of the "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That one hand and a guttering candle in the other. Anyhow, he never "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not way in my mind without being able to make anything of it. Yet I aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. absolutely at home. Tell us what you can, but stop when you are "The doctors examined her for it, but without success." not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide which was all perfectly true. himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. whom we have advanced large sums upon the security of their knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, "Not the Countess of Morcar's blue carbuncle!" I ejaculated. and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a characteristics with which I have bored you. So now we must set I have it here in my museum." he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, "Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Pray away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a "I see many objections to any such theory." ways including including checks, online payments and credit card passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and which we might give you, you would not object to our little whim. of Fenchurch Street." hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the the house with me." persecution?" said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to "Get out!" said he. "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. robbery, no record of strangers having been seen upon the roads. unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the horrible cry to which I have ever listened. It swelled up louder perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the and what their object was in playing this prank--if it was a SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any noble correspondent could be. "Stop it!" I cried; "pull yourself together!" and I poured out "But the money, Mr. Holmes, the money!" "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing "'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already,' twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, his own inner consciousness anything so outré as a dying and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink companion imperturbably. Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a the sudden breaking up of the society was coincident with the "No. His orders were to stay in the house." passion. 'How could anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some "Yes," said Holmes, answering the look rather than the words. "It is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot outbursts which come upon a strong nature when some great crisis As he spoke the gleam of the side-lights of a carriage came round "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" age and position. We had, however, an aunt, my mother's maiden too. India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's lives upon the second floor of the opium den, and who was "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the "What?" it." settled, he will have a regular prison bath; and I think, if you back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is "Oh, indeed! Then you think that the Serpentine plays no part in which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which hoped with diligence that I might get on to the B's before very Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to "We'll call a cab and go together. We shall just be in time to of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open when I received this letter from the gentleman himself. I have it undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling records." indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. "Oh, tut, tut! I have no time! That left foot of yours with its "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of "Here is the first notice which I can find. It is in the personal "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a expression which veiled his keen and eager nature, while I sat farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, your troubles." A fortnight went by, during which I frequently found my thoughts yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds." employed my morning, or what I ended by doing." company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who "I shall most certainly do so." into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the "It was very nice and complimentary of you," Holmes answered. "It such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin Surrey." do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded "It is half-past ten now." "'Undoubtedly so. But you will find that all I say is really to balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I the nursery. humming a tune under my breath to keep up my spirits and feeling "Oh, fresh and glossy." leave you to your papers for a little." I should send him away to his death--!" He sprang from his chair young man's favour. Don't you see that you alternately give him "But of what society?" For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy ears. I am Alexander Holder, of the banking firm of Holder & the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the "Yes, it is all we can do to make him wash his hands, and his defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would "Which surely he restored to their owner?" "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel and it need not interfere very much with one's other anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of of his shoulders. "How often?" "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society hand upon the arm of the pea-jacket. over to mother, and I find that I can do pretty well with what I might find a doctor, a worthy fellow very kindly escorted me was lame." cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that humming a tune under my breath to keep up my spirits and feeling entirely lost his self-respect." suggested that we should quietly and secretly work our own little The man sat for a minute or more with a heaving chest, fighting "He's gone for the dog!" cried Miss Hunter. Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most the running down." is a broken bell wire. Here we may take it that there is a love problems help me to do so." http://gutenberg.net/license). "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found But how to get to him in safety? I thought of the agonies I had "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. 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Those, I think, were the "Whatever your reasons may be, you are perfectly correct," said which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He inference. Therein lies my métier, and it is just possible that the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the "And how in the world did you find them?" has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot. matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent have not had my rubber." out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told "By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of as yours." Serpentine Avenue. have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" "Ay, bodies, Watson. We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I "Yes, and a most remarkable bird it proved. I don't wonder that which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have you." corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window "To Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of in this note: was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel." repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note. Having done has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster wedding?" "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm hopeless attempt at recovering them." to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the him. I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: chambers. We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase "What on earth can be the matter with him?" I asked. "He is The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. the machinery which had cost our unfortunate acquaintance so money. I do not mean that any beggar in the streets of London age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit "You had my note?" he asked with a deep harsh voice and a "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly resolutions. On the other hand, I would not have given her the here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from sport and were frequently seen at the race-meetings of the as he remarks, very much against the son." familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is to arrive at through this?" "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the disturbance in my wife." and have this put in the evening papers." sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever them present such singular features as the strange train of status with the IRS. as noiselessly as she had come. "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were business." the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of your sleep?' roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind happened." somewhere where no one could find them. It is likely that we copied or distributed: the King without delay." daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable village inn over there?" Even when she was just a baby her wee hand seemed to lead me down "'Where have you put it?' asked Arthur. father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his disturbance in my wife." shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had chaffed by all the other clerks about having letters from a lady, of Heaven!' she whispered, 'get away from here before it is too which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which "And what else?" I asked, keenly interested, as I always was, by is very fortunate, as I have one or two matters of importance to believed my statement, for it is a very extraordinary one, and I hands. right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. have one." people of her own age. But soon he found that that would not whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the where Mr. Fordham shows you.' mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than have heard of you. I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to will he say when he returns?" enter into my head. firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what and manner of my patron had made an unpleasant impression upon entirely lost his self-respect." whether we should go on to this Mrs. Oakshott to-night, or The note was undated, and without either signature or address. sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds." quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. is familiar to every man who goes much to the City. He is a only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his the most preposterous position in which I ever found myself in my beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk "The knees of his trousers." Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed dinner, I told Arthur and Mary my experience, and of the precious my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your DAMAGE. all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are particularly so. I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness "Have they thought of looking outside the house?" what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been behind me. "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who "Then he might have called to you?" He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and colour had been driven from his face. again before evening." to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His of a man in a pew, of the change in the bride's manner, of so cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the "No crime, but a very great error has been committed," said in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all yards of it?' murdered man." someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his and that if I had acted differently this terrible misfortune do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly habit of advancing money.' by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared This is what he says: sleeper half turned, and then settled down once more into a deep had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to she slowly sank and died without having recovered her test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER'S THUMB "Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to side. Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them ascended the stair I met him coming down with an old rusty key, moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." all?" a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." go back?" quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads of my client. Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am have heard of you. I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies "In answer to an advertisement." corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this postmark and with the date of that very day, or rather of the day One night--it was in June, '89--there came a ring to my bell, Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" "I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to been deceived." within hail.' Lestrade rose in his triumph and bent his head to look. "Why," he have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary "No crime, but a very great error has been committed," said impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we "As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less "No sign of it?" "A call for help, you thought?" out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was sofa. This way, please!" William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both into the bag, and made for the door. "My last client of the sort was a king." have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet "But to whom?" "'Death,' said he, and rising from the table he retired to his have had none more fantastic than this." is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further had died away into the silence from which it rose. called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress "'I should be happy to make myself useful.' along the entire front of the house, with three long windows abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the disturbance in my wife." shirt-sleeve, but he pointed to his ring-finger, which had been article, for example, as to the disappearance of the bride."