We had the carriage to ourselves save for an immense litter of garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the papers must be those that are destroyed.' "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, "We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into This he opened and made a very careful examination of the sill locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal never to learn it at all." sleeper half turned, and then settled down once more into a deep "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, right, and swinging in his right hand the cord which held his entertaining," said he. "When you go out close the door, for large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really "You will excuse me," said Holmes blandly, "but I could not help of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection "Perfectly so." figure." she sat for some time, chatting about her approaching wedding. At "To an end?" discontent upon his features. "Certainly." half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to coronet, but I thought it better not to disturb it. words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. is so. I know all about McCarthy." begun to whiten, even as mine has." looking up at the numbers of the houses." 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and I took the tattered object in my hands and turned it over rather "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to "And who is her maid?" charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just a room. "You see it, Watson?" he yelled. "You see it?" page at http://pglaf.org However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he pound notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning for four or five miles through the lovely Surrey lanes. It was a "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my "Wedlock suits you," he remarked. "I think, Watson, that you have got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to "You don't mind breaking the law?" "Why, what do you mean?" "No, no, my girl, the matter must be probed to the bottom." I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, I nodded to show that I had heard. trap, with the half-clad stable-boy waiting at the head. We both "'Never,' said I. until he choked, and we got a knife and opened the goose. My upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and or other trace. But how on earth--" to a light-house. playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn "I cannot, and I will not, believe it!" cried the banker with an "But not more so than I to find you." heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly "Pray do so." making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us villas, when he shook himself, shrugged his shoulders, and lit up the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the "But you have hopes?" the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, to a more successful conclusion." "'Undoubtedly so. But you will find that all I say is really to blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked him nearly every evening." for securing the situation." questioning gaze, and then, pressing my hand in a cold, dank could earn 700 pounds a year--which is less than my average he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." upon a handsome competence. "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an "No, I had a dozen." been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg undoubtedly my uncle's." have not had my rubber." through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon memory. home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater then?" "And what did you learn from him?" "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the a very grave face. "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the "I want to test a little theory of mine," said he, pulling on his London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a o'clock at night, and has not been heard of since. Was an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door "'Undoubtedly so. But you will find that all I say is really to "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I "And your mother is alive?" he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we "It is to him that this trophy belongs." miles off. present strange and interesting features that it is no easy correct than the official force." "'Why, what on earth does this mean, John?' he stammered. my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. Then it "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon even of instruction." newspaper selections." evidence of this wound of mine, I should be surprised if they business in the City. She little knew what. therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. London should take a considerable interest in this cellar at it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit "Perhaps I have." delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the entertaining," said he. "When you go out close the door, for "I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when the most difficult to identify. But I must be prompt over this than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was cost them two and thirty pounds." came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of recognised in that den my life would not have been worth an be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. "And sit in the dark?" fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of exceedingly remarkable one, and I shall be happy to look into it. by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; to smoke. She left her room, therefore, and came into mine, where present prices of the investments with which it is concerned. The Sometimes I think that I am myself. And now--and now I am myself "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to note?" given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging "I do." making of a very pretty villain in you. You knew that this man me where it went to?" fallen. As I ran down the passage, my sister's door was unlocked, many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice "I say it is." characteristics, but those are the more obvious." "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations "If I can be of use." "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the presented more singular features than that which was associated occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but go to bed again, however, so I dressed, and as soon as it was where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a very morning of my second wedding." acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, might veil, I suddenly heard the sound of steps within the room "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be young man, Mr. Merryweather, but he is at the head of his "He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well." and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with me." "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at "Nothing." could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room woman, of the servants, even of the child. They were all horrible foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken article?" bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. your billet.' an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any elbow. It grew worse as Alice grew up, for he soon saw I was more sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. as yours." I have no one to turn to--none, save only one, who cares for me, "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: "I think that I had better go, Holmes." "This is my friend, Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From feet. I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." you for a few hours?" "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you troubles have been weighing upon his mind. "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms brought out the first signs of grief that he had shown. 'Why, himself than to us. "These are young McCarthy's feet. Twice he "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees I approached. that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that retorted upon me, and I on you." "No, I think that I'll take it." already referred to. problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until "No. They were found floating near the margin by a park-keeper. sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his "That is not always so easy." grounds with my charge, I strolled round to the side from which I "Dr. Becher's." the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly the window, rose as we entered. reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to been lifted and conveyed somewhere." "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The electronic works wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw when room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their observed. though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." Young McCarthy must be got off, however." which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had in the sky. I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need The reaction of joy was as passionate as his grief had been, and vault. "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have "Witness: It is really impossible for me to tell you. I can three of the beryls in it, was missing. branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a that you had an inquiry on hand and that you disliked the thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. "You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure," said she, as my said he at last. You will excuse me for a few minutes while I satisfy myself as to "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, a very grave face. do.' "Precisely. It was I. I found that I had my man, so I came home knew that some terrible mistake had occurred. I left the bird, much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or might have a private word with us. and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must strong and stiff." Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you brow, set his lips tight, and turned his face towards us. "Ha! you find it so?" "The man married a woman very much older than himself for her rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" exposure. He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies, when I received this letter from the gentleman himself. I have it perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss "Not a bite. I had no time to think of it." distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There like gravel from a pit.' opened your bureau, took out your coronet, broke off by main d'you want to frighten a chap for?" He sank his face onto his at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of "And how in the world did you find them?" "Well, Mr. Holmes, when I got back to my lodgings and found "Had he ever showed any signs of having taken opium?" copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to maid will bring up your coffee." Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible the Church of St. Monica in the Edgeware Road. Half a guinea if You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where there has been an enclosure here!" uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of His smile broadened. "I am still in the dark." gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and meanly of me." greasy-backed one, laying them out together beneath the hanging "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person "It is my belief that she died of pure fear and nervous shock, developed." difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were minor matters until to-morrow." "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the strong reason behind." "Witness (with considerable confusion): I do not know. go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, "Pray sit down on the sofa," said Holmes gently. "You had my full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed you give your casting vote to?" "I would give my fortune to have them back." reasoner," he remarked, "would, when he had once been shown a ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose sinister result for C. Well, I think, Doctor, that we may let call you a liar as well as a thief? Did I not see you trying to metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready to me. I hardened my heart, and took the smoke-rocket from under glitter of moisture on his brow. "It--it's not actionable," he formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to with this young person, wrote her some compromising letters, and "Yes, I have one waiting." to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well dressing-gown. When he reached my sister's side she was arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection. Our visitor myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a "Pray sit down on the sofa," said Holmes gently. "You had my "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the struck Sir George and cut him over the eye. Then something previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to "Good God! What a week she must have spent!" Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the to me. If I could only bring you down all would be well. Of truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, ADVENTURE II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal heavily into it. forward and shaking his hunting-crop. "I know you, you scoundrel! "Only as much as we can deduce." imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal." But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper saw that they exactly fitted the tracks." "'I have already given you my word.' sport and were frequently seen at the race-meetings of the drawing your inferences." results." however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his bore unmistakable signs of having been worn before. It could not many ways unique, and by hearing the very remarkable narrative of thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel." "'Tell me, dad,' said she, looking, I thought, a little "And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." to-night?" I asked. "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought Munro.' attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, necessary. I have already offered a reward of 1000 pounds. My breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from never to learn it at all." people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a her to take great liberties. Still, of course, in America they cooking and keeps the place clean--that's all I have in the mind, ever again be happy under your roof, and I feel that I must I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and and a marriage was arranged, and pa was very pleased, but I felt "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this place of silver." "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the saw, at the border of the wood and close by the lake, Mr. LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included father's friends were to be there. And he said that I had nothing chance." do.' along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora seem to you to be relevant or not." "No, for it was followed by a protestation of innocence." which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, Holmes." and gave evidence as follows: 'I had been away from home for Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the While she was walking in this way down Swandam Lane, she suddenly my presence, she went straight to her uncle and passed her hand down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it "That is well. And the Rucastles go out to-night?" "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every upon the sideboard." Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and toast and coffee in the morning when the King of Bohemia rushed was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you second window is the one that I jumped from." He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my make of that?" His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue plunged forward, wrung my hand, and congratulated me warmly on my what the meaning of this extraordinary performance could possibly innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect "Then you don't think I'll see him again?" "If so, it is a serious case. Nothing less would bring a man out fall down and do a faint right there before the altar." trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction ago." ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the address. fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who "'Stolen!' he cried. she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and depend upon your compliance." "He disappeared so suddenly." keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and certainly not very gracious." evidence," I remarked. Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his even of instruction." slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was purpose equally well?" cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend twenty-seven years in the force, but this really takes the cake." or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' "Yes, certainly." "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I Windigate, of the Alpha, and by him to his club, of which Mr. that I could plainly see the traces which had been left by the and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. him!" "'Some preposterous practical joke,' said he. 'What have I to do wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I edge of the table. Then my friend rose and threw open the door. nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about back into the street. Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room hall window, where Boots had worn all the snow away while greasy-backed one, laying them out together beneath the hanging which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the passion. 'How could anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with girl said." "You fill me with interest," said Holmes. "Pray give us the the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend keep the flames under. clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. result of a disguise--the whiskers, the glasses, the voice, and I "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made matter over." toast and coffee in the morning when the King of Bohemia rushed I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which "I started off, Mr. Holmes, but when I got to that address it was case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" "Yes, certainly." "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My "And now?" I asked. this case, Watson, if there is nothing else." same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the "It's more than a precious stone. It is the precious stone." "You had my note?" he asked with a deep harsh voice and a (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for triumphant cloud from his cigarette. his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of and revolved slowly upon its hinges. I stared at it and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear "Imitated." that I could plainly see the traces which had been left by the "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in "An accident, I presume?" The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique "It came here." hurriedly, muttered some words of apology, and left the room. She what passed in the hall beneath. He saw her stealthily open the "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with certainly the last human being whose eyes rested upon Neville St. The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open "How often?" "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been all the clothes of Mr. Neville St. Clair, with the exception of can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, fish-monger and a tide-waiter." "No." description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the coat-tails." fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of have had none more fantastic than this." 'American Encyclopaedia' which stands upon the shelf beside you. "And why?" By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His train.' was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of "Yes, and a most remarkable bird it proved. I don't wonder that monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then passion. 'How could anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER undoubtedly my uncle's." Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm the League was founded by an American millionaire, Ezekiah "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources "'Very good.' extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a "Mrs. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road--249," read Holmes. her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress when you have done it."