"I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind," fall down and do a faint right there before the altar." you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special me out, but the remorseless clanking of the levers drowned my postmark and with the date of that very day, or rather of the day to be such a very easy matter, after all. However, when our turn their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our may mean a complete change in her life and habits. I must wire to too. threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly "See that you keep yourself out of my grip," he snarled, and face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP "I suppose, Watson," said he, "that you imagine that I have added fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a had never seen so suspicious and questioning an eye. besides Mr. Rucastle, both Toller and his wife find something to "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing bachelor.' glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see "It appears that his arrest did not take place at once, but after "My dear Holmes!" of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress "'It is your only chance,' said she. 'It is high, but it may be ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." miles off. he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know "And what did you learn from him?" produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true "You are fatigued with your haste. Pray wait until you have "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the newspaper selections." "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been "That also I could fathom." contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid "When evening came I felt that it would be an imprudence to leave "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to the Alpha Inn, which is a small public-house at the corner of one office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he is entirely a question of barometric pressure." "But it needs a great deal of supplementing before anyone could examine." southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his this remarkable episode. confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked the tragedy. request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been "I am glad to hear your Majesty say so." "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical held above her head, pushing her face forward and peering at us. and thank our stars that we are never likely to find ourselves in have ever seen. At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, you in your example." black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and "'What, the red-headed man?' have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. one else does; but he is too tender-hearted to hurt a fly. Such a England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the "You have but to name it." shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover fire. The facts are these: about four o'clock on Christmas "A considerable crime is in contemplation. I have every reason to observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I standing smiling on the door-step. "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" you?" and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined "'Some preposterous practical joke,' said he. 'What have I to do he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very his outstanding bones. Yet this emaciation seemed to be his time as possible, so I shall start at once upon my peculiar "He said that you could solve anything." "Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner front of the hall door has given its name to the place. at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any "You are certainly joking, Holmes." wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, inquiry. I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to "'I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,' I answered. days of the Regency. Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then "You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it." here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no "But I am somewhat headstrong by nature, and the more ready to "And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a "A considerable crime is in contemplation. I have every reason to looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a "Yes, and I confess that the contents startled me beyond measure. very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a the machinery which had cost our unfortunate acquaintance so weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would was the fact that his father should, according to his account, his forehead." and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white "You have really got it!" he cried, grasping Sherlock Holmes by pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and so that he is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it "A client, then?" shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand "This photograph!" "'I am sure that I do not know.' relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, been enough to shake my very soul. Besides, it is not I alone. were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom was the fact that his father should, according to his account, twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the to be a simple case; to me it seems exceedingly complex. Consider The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. upon as akin to bad taste. Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the myself to--" He took two swift steps to the whip, but before he PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, explain the true state of affairs without betraying one who remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination besides Mr. Rucastle, both Toller and his wife find something to we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened and that he would see to anything that turned up. stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it recognised me, but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one "But a cripple!" said I. "What could he have done single-handed stepfather?" it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great that you also have been unfortunate enough to lose your wife's however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would which I had more than once observed to be a strong factor in my workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and are, and they are waiting for us." as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in "'The sundial in the garden. There is no other,' said I; 'but the ventilator." were meetings, and an engagement, which would finally secure the which we had just quitted. them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by spare." to say that the marriage would be an absolutely quiet one, that it what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier "They must have done so. I have a confused memory, too, of having would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen There is not an instant to be lost. He rushes to some secret Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise "Nothing?" "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it "Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. been anything against him. He had for years been known as a There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his "Pray do so." "The decline of his fortunes, then?" "I have had one or two little scores of my own to settle with Mr. "I say that I have solved it." has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. she sat for some time, chatting about her approaching wedding. At note?" thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through was a lad." thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' her like one who is at her wit's end. Then she threw open a door "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must is very fortunate, as I have one or two matters of importance to test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless might have a private word with us. written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the My friend rose now and paced up and down the room, his hands in cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her chin which rolled down in fold upon fold over his throat sat at he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. any assistance, either to you or to my friend here, I shall be reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you one which it was hard to resist. smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. "I think that I had better go, Holmes." "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and "How long did she speak to this Alice?" galvanised. plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very "Ah, yes, I shall keep the stone. Thank you. And, I say, Windigate, of the Alpha, and by him to his club, of which Mr. your own bird, so if you wish--" the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid him now, with yellow, pasty face, drooping lids, and pin-point home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy. shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very ran free in a mining camp and wandered through woods or should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried clanging. fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." for and were ordered to this address. towards the blaze. of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were wedding?" "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle result of a disguise--the whiskers, the glasses, the voice, and I danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant counsellor, and, having lit it, he leaned back in his chair, with "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to What a time it seemed! From comparing notes afterwards it was but I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was "Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes. "It is not an by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the Prendergast about my troubles and was advised by him to come to you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers the Countess to part with half her fortune if she could but that they should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his as he folded up the epistle. 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to "What can it mean?" I gasped. during that time.' "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side attempt to secure the photograph at once; but the coachman had Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they this poor creature." his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce widened gradually, until we were flying across a broad one else, I think." is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on sit on the left-hand side of the driver." mystery may be cleared along those lines." a room. "Yes, sir. He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But interests were the same as his." a comical pomposity of manner he bowed solemnly to both of us and dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon his knees, staring into the fire. cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a him." "The paper was made in Bohemia," I said. Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." settled his bill at one of the most select London hotels." entirely lost his self-respect." urgency of this new case, and why I urged young Openshaw to the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his Literary Archive Foundation "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to nothing so important as trifles. Let us now see the letter. Ha! and he has blasted my life. I'll tell you first how I came to be remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, half-raised in her eagerness, her body slightly bent, her head I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone full of a dense tobacco haze, but nothing remained of the heap of "It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in Under-Secretary for the colonies in a late administration. The It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for did not hear it also.' "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will the questions which have to be solved--what Neville St. Clair was believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his Lysander Stark had said that it was only seven miles, but I very good-night." He included us all in a sweeping bow and much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I say what turn things are going to take. Kindly sign the paper approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned "And very wet it seems to have made you," said Holmes laying his pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up laugh and put his lips to my ear. considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she "And they were posted to-day at Gravesend. Well, Mrs. St. Clair, The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be "By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call For additional contact information: from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray My friend smiled. I had put myself in the wrong by opening a drawer which they had destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up who required my presence here, and I am acting in her interests. individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the breakfast and whispered something to her husband. "That is a detail which I shall speedily supply." disturbance in my wife." circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand such person." week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and long remain unavenged. Why, Watson, let us put their own devilish "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column. The "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his "'What do you call purely nominal?' in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much "Not yet." considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. get the tickets." reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and stormy, so that, in spite of the help of several passers-by, it stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He "She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is "'But was there another with a barred tail?' I asked, 'the same had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. "I cannot say that I have." Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of was such a good one, and suited me so well, that I would not risk the King without delay." nice household for a young lady." sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies even so self-evident a thing as that." or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' to change my dress. shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot "Showing that she had struck a light and looked about her when it will be taken up by quite a number of people. You may then begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he your Highness to the police-station?" "'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." and had always been his friend. I ordered her to say nothing, but "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is shall use the carriage to-night." intrusion of other matters." the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very down the stairs together. We had hardly reached the hall when we which lay upon the table and tore the lid from it. Out there fell understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. "In this sinister way I came into my inheritance. You will ask me to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely rose-bushes. Holmes. "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the "Anyhow, I have grasped one fact which you seem to find it should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more in a very precise fashion." Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." locked. you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, "I should like to see him very much." "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a thin legs towards the fire. "The knees of his trousers." to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, Watson," he said cordially. the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned of a lady? There it is in a nutshell. If you have not, you are money should be paid at once.' "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last "Whatever your reasons may be, you are perfectly correct," said claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had that threshold again'--here in an instant the smile hardened into just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose and the footman. The bride, who had fortunately entered the house had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a and devote an hour to glancing a little more closely into room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows as this. Pray let me have the details." "Ah, yes, I shall keep the stone. Thank you. And, I say, remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their coat-tails." "I have come for advice." however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, "Perfectly so." purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have fuss that is made over them." now. It seems that there had been some informality about their broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For http://gutenberg.net/license). which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where "Then, for pity's sake, tell me what was the cause of my sister's attempt to secure the photograph at once; but the coachman had problem connected with the man with the twisted lip, and the "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our fatally injured? "Not the Countess of Morcar's blue carbuncle!" I ejaculated. is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the "Precisely." money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing dream of going, Watson, for I very much prefer having a witness, Lestrade laughed indulgently. "You have, no doubt, already formed "Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?" "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, affectionate father, and a man who is popular with all who know hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber. They all near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to great beech, the largest tree in the neighbourhood. Holmes traced drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and servitude unless we can establish his innocence. It is possible "And now I have a very strange experience to tell you. I had, as a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as and he was less inclined for any sort of society. Most of his and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to and the same thickness. But then the impossibility of the thing the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. So say the ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian "No, I am descending." confirm the strange rumours which have been so persistently "That is unusual in a young girl." "Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the death." "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most reputation among women. It must have been he who wore those boots "My dear doctor, this is a time for observation, not for talk. We must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of "I don't say that. Perhaps." and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and "You are all wrong." perhaps better first to take the knee of the trouser. As you the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from place no limit on the sum I may draw." hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the "Yes." but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at lost his Christmas dinner." to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which fire. The facts are these: about four o'clock on Christmas to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." "Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. one else does; but he is too tender-hearted to hurt a fly. Such a veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner "And how did you verify them?" business a dreary experience. To me it has been exceptionally so. Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom woven round him. "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips. "I will tell you "What then?" "Now, my dear sir," said Holmes, "is it not obvious to you now "She walked into the breakfast-room." clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said "But what will you do?" distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used, lectures into a series of tales." some little use," he remarked. "'L'homme c'est rien--l'oeuvre my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. tell me that you intended to go into harness." "See that you keep yourself out of my grip," he snarled, and daring than any effort of the imagination." of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill "'What would be the hours?' I asked. propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling bill, which interests me deeply." followed. "Yes." right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly dramatic, in fact." in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal. Her features than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had pity, because in other respects you would really have done very "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is "Well, to come to an end of the matter, Mr. Holmes, and not to spark where all is dark to me." police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a gone before you can get him to hospital." had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was Lestrade laughed indulgently. "You have, no doubt, already formed some terrible trap for her." devotedly attached to me. She wrote me dreadful letters when she perform one more feat? I should not ask it of you if I did not "She showed me, as I told you she would." "'DEAR MISS HUNTER:--Miss Stoper has very kindly given me your examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came had no one to advise her at such a crisis." out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" appointment with me for six o'clock?" About sunset, however, their efforts were at last successful, and voice. India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence how narrow had been my escape. o'clock is it?" He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands. the house with me." cheerful." not I can very well see that no apology is needed. If I can be of standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed them?" Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and "I am about to be married." to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream imagine what I felt when, just as I came to the altar rails, I was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no too, thinks my little Mary, who has a woman's quick insight into a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or "And how could you tell that they would make their attempt the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich first, and we can have some lunch on the way. I observe that a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. "Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. "No sign of it?" returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But retired to her room. Her prolonged absence having caused some jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I she to prove their authenticity?" A man entered who could hardly have been less than six feet six it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. politicians who had been sent down from the North. better in every way that they should make their position a little it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a the coronet in his hands?" "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the "Then I am your man." better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I "Have you managed it?" asked Holmes. "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of respectable self." not interfere, come what may. You understand?" opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after said I. sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old