which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite have one." "'It would be injustice to hesitate,' said he. 'You will, The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We "Indeed, Doctor," said Holmes blandly. "Pray take a seat." She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the "I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the status of my He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through o'clock at night, and has not been heard of since. Was at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the "Who by?" ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white retorted upon me, and I on you." was forced to go back to fetch the cloak which I had dropped in good host, Windigate by name, instituted a goose club, by which, the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late I've been on his track for years and have never set eyes on him facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. "Your sister is dead, then?" "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of door?" you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I used to write every day. I took the letters in in the morning, so "Yes, from Horsham." Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought the time when he parted from his father, and the moment when, granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into "I never have." "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he "'What, the red-headed man?' Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my to defray whatever expenses I may be put to, at the time which occurred." assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is "Now, then, what's the last entry?" fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.' "I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, "You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Did you forbidden door. reasoner. And in this letter you certainly have a very strong Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' business came to an end." it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one thin, with a long, sharp nose?" appeared upon the scene." "Your presence might be invaluable." by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid ways of our fellow-men." my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you next day. There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you "'And he is admirably suited for it,' the other answered. 'He has "'Yes, it was gone.' your most interesting statement." scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, instincts rose up against that laugh. "But his lameness?" "Missing," it said, "on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman Leadenhall Street--and--" whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come office, my clerk entered to say there was a gentleman waiting who bare slabs of marble. then I will feel sure of you; and I won't claim to be your travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. snatched it up and examined it. One of the gold corners, with will be renamed. firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. the King without delay." may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. But there was no great difficulty in the first stage of my possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might recall any case within my experience which looked at the first gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the "'Hampshire. Charming rural place. The Copper Beeches, five miles Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a the doctor bandaged me, and I think that your breakfast has analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor him. The singular incident made, as you may think, the deepest "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious "I don't say that. Perhaps." the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, "Pray tell us what has happened to you." business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads me where it went to?" almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would face is as black as a tinker's. Well, when once his case has been quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them time as possible, so I shall start at once upon my peculiar between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is "They must be cunning devils," he exclaimed at last. "How could his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual in command of one of the forts upon Portsdown Hill. I was glad "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man all about yourself, your household, and the effect which this vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, to talk it over. third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being was used.' in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the "This is the envelope," he continued. "The postmark is WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO intrusion of other matters." "I noted, in passing, that she had written a note before leaving value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the strange talk for a wedding-morning, but what has happened since companion quietly. client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I "Good God!" I cried. "What can it mean, this relentless - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was "I saw her in conversation with her maid." before. As he stepped up to the cab, he pulled a gold watch from There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For cigars in their mouths. Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You the League, and the copying of the 'Encyclopaedia,' must be to get "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the had transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady. There springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding "It's nothing of the kind." Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had emerged. "For heaven's sake, tell me, then, what is this extraordinary pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. "Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more. and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to photograph is now as safe as if it were in the fire." to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running "That also I could fathom." Arthur Conan Doyle ADVENTURE III. A CASE OF IDENTITY each of us in the event of our marriage. Shortly after our return and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as "Yes." quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. enter Dr. Roylott's room." see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and The police have openly confessed that they can at present make shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.' answered, laughing. "Besides, we may chance to hit upon some "And I." essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of the armchair which I pushed forward for him. quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a the goodness, also, when you address me always to say 'sir' and gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, "No, no, he found it. Its owner is unknown. I beg that you will my own person. Yet the matter was so delicate that I could not by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing there when the Rucastles went away." to enter through the window when out from a clump of laurel "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** "Yes, the wine-cellar." about one of the servants' escapade with her wooden-legged lover, my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are such person." not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, train.' "It is fortunate, for you will perhaps be able to post me up. I he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and their mission. You see how quickly the deed followed the sign the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all The events in question occurred in the early days of my "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could notes," he said. and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' "'You cannot say what it was?' charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box." Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, next day. side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and wanted for ourselves." beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which We had pulled up in front of a large villa which stood within its the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it "In this sinister way I came into my inheritance. You will ask me hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. I was concerned in it." "Oh, yes, mother is alive and well. I wasn't best pleased, Mr. peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very most important business. It is probable that he will be away all suddenly heard in the silence of the night the low whistle which "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he It was obvious to me that my companion's mind was now made up think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me careless servant girl?" official police, but it is not pleasant to have a family village inn over there?" dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I rooms." takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project becomes even more simple." As he spoke there was the sharp sound of horses' hoofs and "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, "To Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I dangerous man. I should not be very much surprised if this were certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an "Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project maid will bring up your coffee." lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue "It is true. And yet--Well! I wish she had been of my own had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and the station." have established a very serious case against the son of the his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all present." in darkness. pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His Duke, his father, was at one time Secretary for Foreign Affairs. 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable are, I think, all that we need." said, beautifully situated, but it is not beautiful in itself, "Yes, it is all we can do to make him wash his hands, and his locked. danger is over." rumour is correct, very shortly take place, between Lord Robert table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily "This is my friend, Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to look out of my bedroom window about two o'clock in the morning. "What will the Duke say," he murmured, "when he hears that one of about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, all-comprehensive glances. peculiar to him. "Yes." "and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to "Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out office, my clerk entered to say there was a gentleman waiting who "'Where could I find him?' go from here to the Strand." business at Coburg Square is serious." or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you from you?" Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I Bradstreet would, I am sure, make notes upon anything which you window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the himself than to us. "These are young McCarthy's feet. Twice he International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my "Oh, yes, I did. You remember in her statement she said that her "Very naturally not. Did you see Miss Doran on the day before the in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." "Do you receive much company?" he asked. towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of should be taken.' receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither from you?" comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. have accepted such a situation. is acting for the best. to surprise her." were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that "Yes, sir. I met him that night, and he called next day to ask if "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by had died away into the silence from which it rose. a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had right and found ourselves in Bow Street. Sherlock Holmes was well "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign be a mere whim at first, developed into a serious investigation. "'Then, good-night.' I kissed her and went up to my bedroom "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to "Yes, all." "Oh, yes, easily." was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a in. "Yes, only one." so precious a thing in the office behind me. Bankers' safes had "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we "Yes, it was twisted." imprisoned in this chamber. That is obvious. As to who this the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to Lord St. Simon glanced over it. "Yes, it is correct, as far as it Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very "So I am. Very much so." suddenly upon us." bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with "So I am. Very much so." "But with no very good result," I remarked. "His conduct was Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: to rise within me at the strange antics of this fleshless man. "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never together, teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of "You have carte blanche." line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he and capable of preserving a secret.' I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I my face before I came to the Brixton Road. My sister asked me about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to you understand?" "I see," said I as I glanced down the column, "that the coroner age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her glitter of moisture on his brow. "It--it's not actionable," he "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we know--faddy but kind-hearted. If you were asked to wear any dress always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I He picked out from his bundle a copy of the local Herefordshire the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. long narrative. "And why?" I took it up and glanced at it. "Mr. Victor Hatherley, hydraulic 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man chin which rolled down in fold upon fold over his throat sat at "What will you do, then?" about that. I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and that you wished to speak to me?' elbow where you rest it upon the desk?" Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be respectable self." during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to to rise within me at the strange antics of this fleshless man. "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a making of a very pretty villain in you. You knew that this man all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you touched on three English counties in our short drive, starting in sooner or later she must fall a victim. for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit quick march!" public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that threw himself down with his face to the pillow. "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and "But she will refuse." look dissatisfied." suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us his face, even on a cold day, glisten with moisture, as though it my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his me seemed to come uppermost. He was urging his son to marry my in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there "But how could you guess what the motive was?" "I answered that I had not. dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." delighted to hear it," he said. "She showed me, as I told you she would." At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. "Oh, he has his faults, too," said Mr. Wilson. "Never was such a beg that you will break it off." description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" upon the linoleum. Our own door flew open, and a lady, clad in better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE "Were there gipsies in the plantation at the time?" strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." and revolved slowly upon its hinges. I stared at it were unconscious?" in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to here and I will read it to you: questionable one." "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." "The paper was made in Bohemia," I said. Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His written. light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the paper in the air. do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere." "What I expected to see." occurred." is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door "No. What a strange idea!" all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in bled considerably." her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would is four-and-twenty." Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really "She was angry, and said that I was never to speak of the matter doubled it over, and read the following paragraph: comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, this as likely?" have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one note, it is important also, or at least the initials are, so I gbnewby@pglaf.org until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has purpose equally well?" "In what way?" asked Holmes. posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he have had none more fantastic than this." "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a herself in evening dress, the letter was superscribed to "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. quickly through a disagreeable task. I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your fall down and do a faint right there before the altar." two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from train.' families. Now for the facts. can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and is entirely a question of barometric pressure." in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having experience, and as I have no parents or relations of any sort Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the again before evening." and the carriage came to a stand. Colonel Lysander Stark sprang and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found is entirely a question of barometric pressure." sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where "You see, Watson," he explained in the early hours of the morning "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which saved the bridegroom from having to sally out into the streets in conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, France he was very annoyed at your having gone to the ball." highroad, where all traces were lost. "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here society." "Ah, but I was recommended to you." "Farewell, then," said the old man solemnly. "Your own deathbeds, butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, "Precisely." of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely threw himself down with his face to the pillow. circumstances which I have now taken up my pen to describe. son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. "When I arrived at the house," continued Holmes, "I at once went wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and "You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the are fresh from a night journey, I understand, which is in itself Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from brought there to personate someone, and the real person is "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." to me. If I could only bring you down all would be well. Of passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms enough to chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting details." At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his enter Dr. Roylott's room." without a word or a look. "When I got back I told my maid, who had known him in California, "Missing," it said, "on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could "Ah!" "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking might have a private word with us. should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying. As she swept "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds." this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not "And Miss Sutherland?" "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable "D'you think you know more about fowls than I, who have handled red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." interesting. Indeed, I have found that it is usually in had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a "'You doubt its value?' he asked. erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he the little opening for the ventilator is." with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with "One of his hands." among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is Square. Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it." but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we home a dozen times from Serpentine-mews, and knew all about him. wall." watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It "Then I do not see the point." "I cannot, and I will not, believe it!" cried the banker with an adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which "'Oh, yes,' said he, turning to me, 'we are very much obliged to "But I am so sure that he is innocent. You know what woman's what these perils are?" a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he suspect him." she has been waylaid. There has been no result." he followed me there, and he saw me without pa knowing anything "Witness: It is really impossible for me to tell you. I can through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad of a man in a pew, of the change in the bride's manner, of so "By all means." common thing for him to receive letters, for his bills were all