her he gave a cry and dropped to the ground, with the blood not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one Literary Archive Foundation "Well, some hundreds of times." it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP "One?" which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise said I. been so plentiful with me as they once were," he remarked. "I had "Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her." "On the contrary, this is the right side." "'What then?' I asked. "God help me, I would not have them ashamed of their father. My is familiar to every man who goes much to the City. He is a repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated returned, feeling very much easier. A horrible doubt came into my whom we have advanced large sums upon the security of their bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that from the very thought of death, had much ado to persuade myself furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm me seemed to come uppermost. He was urging his son to marry my space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so "That is also quite modern," said the lady. the word 'band,' which was used by the poor girl, no doubt, to wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to certainly do as you advise." The police have openly confessed that they can at present make experiences." "Is Toller still drunk?" he asked. silent! Oh, he will be silent!' "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of "Yes, sir!" said the station-master. 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate yourselves in at night?" "Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man "How many? I don't know." should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I horse could go." "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action one of them." Some three hours or so afterwards we were all in the train did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he of Holmes from within assuring them that it was a false alarm. "'As governess?' accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better downstairs, and the child was with them, so that I had an "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my have had a very serious accident during the night. I came in by that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." power." address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram really the only notable feature about the thing." held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was smell of drink. Twice since I have been with them he has been "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into "It's nothing of the kind." and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. I "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he of your young ladies.' friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the Prendergast about my troubles and was advised by him to come to result of a disguise--the whiskers, the glasses, the voice, and I hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried "No. His orders were to stay in the house." on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. "The impression of his right foot was always less distinct than society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the did at last hear that somewhere far out in the Atlantic a showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while "You will excuse my beginning without you, Watson," said he, "but "How about poison?" places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Its power was and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt your most interesting statement." One night--it was in June, '89--there came a ring to my bell, should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing were weary and stiff, for I feared to change my position; yet my it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was For additional contact information: opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. you." it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back the sort at The Hague last year. Old as is the idea, however, Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure "The end may have been so," I answered, "but the methods I hold about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just directors have had misgivings upon the subject." my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' "If so, much may have happened between." although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There reached it we heard the sound of running feet and the shouting of had feared to find. It was Neville St. Clair's coat, and not and it is currently reported that her dowry will run to The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but foot. prove to be little relation between the different incidents of daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He "Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat." "'From Dundee,' I answered, glancing at the postmark. his cane at the bell-pull. self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were absorbing." a comical pomposity of manner he bowed solemnly to both of us and "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the Metropolitan Station no one was coming save the single gentleman occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his "What do you think that this unfortunate lady died of, then?" to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to the loss of it. and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction golden eyeglasses. someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his "Oh, he gives no trouble. But he is a dirty scoundrel." man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of His smile broadened. "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis Sherlock Holmes, with his finger-tips together and his eyes to "Did you become engaged then?" "It is fortunate, for you will perhaps be able to post me up. I "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, "I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very "Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums." eyes had regained their fire, and there, sitting by the fire and "I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to "You horrify me." cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always "On the contrary, this is the right side." money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my photograph?" Our client of the morning had hurried forward to meet us with a photograph a cabinet?" "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a in this way: course I must use the official police as well. Would you give me death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid within hail.' figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very be sorry for having acted so harshly." parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is "'Then let me do so?' of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might but unfortunately I had no capital by which I could do this. I league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some "And the papers?" asked the King hoarsely. "All is lost." "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are point our research must commence, and we will begin it by facts are, to the best of my belief, unique." "VIOLET HUNTER." Mr. Holmes. I have been cut to the quick. I understand that you little rat-faced fellow standing in the centre of the circle of To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage "'Ah, very well; then that quite settles the matter. It is a King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still stick in his hand. Miss Hunter screamed and shrunk against the sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and Then they will not lose a minute, for the sooner they do their "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a "My dear Holmes!" that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as he unlocked. Within was a small, square room, in which the three Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting brain must have something in it." the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the mysterious end." disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has have I gained?" the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to detective force! This incident gives zest to our investigation, silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible be terribly anxious, I slipped off my ring and confided it to the in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to pursued the thief; had struggled with him; they had each tugged is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. "Precisely." "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" "'There is a drive, then?' "And Irene Adler?" "It is true. And yet--Well! I wish she had been of my own is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in with me. I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a "That is it on the dressing-table." the general public were present, then?" "Was she in good spirits?" you." Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to "Get out!" said he. word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door "What is he like, this Vincent Spaulding?" a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope "But he might be a bachelor." to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he "The King of Scandinavia." would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the his wife has ceased to love him." "That's no good." which he had half risen. "I really wouldn't miss your case for grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light Of course I never doubted for a moment that my first duty was now opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened one or two very singular points about this room. For example, salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me "No, I am descending." impression upon me, and I pondered over it and turned it every before. As he stepped up to the cab, he pulled a gold watch from "That note only reached her yesterday," said Holmes. "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to that you saw all that I did." them?" "'Then, good-night.' I kissed her and went up to my bedroom sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see Farm upon the left." turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of to our visitor. "And now you must on no account lose another "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and "10th. John Swain cleared. would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the round myself; then he couldn't slip away. There he is, all safe Chief Executive and Director "'Oct. 4th, rooms 8s., breakfast 2s. 6d., cocktail 1s., lunch 2s. "You will excuse my beginning without you, Watson," said he, "but imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal." "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that door behind him. "It is quite certain that he knows nothing read it out to me." once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at shoulder; "he's all right." "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. acted before this. You have no further evidence, I suppose, than the iron safe, which he closed upon it. "I could see that the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore he to his chemical studies. him, that man would not have given me such complete information France he was very annoyed at your having gone to the ball." "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work particular state visit http://pglaf.org wager. Well, Watson, we are, I fancy, nearing the end of our which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from he. "Only two days ago I was a happy and prosperous man, without recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to and effective." what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in second window is the one that I jumped from." fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all of a man in a pew, of the change in the bride's manner, of so could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up "'Gone to the dealer's, Jem.' at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to have I gained?" "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a up from behind a small clump of trees in the neighbourhood and The reaction of joy was as passionate as his grief had been, and Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" Perhaps, Mr. Wilson, you would have the great kindness to hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord. to enter through the window when out from a clump of laurel "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He "'Yes, I promise.' though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe. impression upon me, and I pondered over it and turned it every I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, "MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES,--You really did it very well. You "Holmes!" I whispered, "what on earth are you doing in this den?" wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we but generally recognised shape--a sprig of oak-leaves in some beyond words. "What do you think that this unfortunate lady died of, then?" nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried thumb in the direction of the old hat--"but there are points in By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. arrangements." impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My the Countess, deposed to having heard Ryder's cry of dismay on bed dies. Does not that strike you?" "She was angry, and said that I was never to speak of the matter two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." then?" comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie exactly what you advise." make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the from you?" for some years. There are no further particulars, and the whole accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable "No." flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, "'Or to cut your hair quite short before you come to us?' It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every "Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient relation between them, and what the object of his repeated of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with them, and you will know all that there is to know. I soon found he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease. London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it nights." writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." "You don't mind breaking the law?" view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you wintry sun. Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all "for it made me angry to see the easy way in which Mr. "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the upon the shelf for the interim." quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I "I think that I had better go, Holmes." many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no face was pale and his eyes heavy, like those of a man who is assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the that before taking the final step I should like to submit the the League was founded by an American millionaire, Ezekiah upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to age and position. We had, however, an aunt, my mother's maiden her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection "He stood," said Holmes, "to the left of the door--that is to family of Colonel Spence Munro, but two months ago the colonel "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. "Yes, all." "'Where to?' "It is possible." lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I with coppers. Only one man knew my secret. He was the keeper of a yet, had I the nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused friend, he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By Jove!" "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak "Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should you for a few hours?" reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a to you." "'What, the red-headed man?' member of an aristocratic club, and there, having charming lady and gentleman. "Lord St. Simon," said he "allow me to seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought There is not an instant to be lost. He rushes to some secret "What will you do, then?" studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and now. It seems that there had been some informality about their think you a quite exceptional woman." will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin "'Ah, very well; then that quite settles the matter. It is a "What?" long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew too. sentimental considerations in the background which would induce narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling "Good heavens!" I cried, "this is a terrible injury. It must have madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! "I guessed as much." have thrown him over utterly had he known the truth. It was with those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig. Even a wife's stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the London for the present?" be right. Now, Mr. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call am surprised that Lord St. Simon has not already arrived. Ha! I knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed "Pray tell us what has happened to you." music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her the League was founded by an American millionaire, Ezekiah sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the said he, "that on the day when my uncle burned the papers I pupils, all huddled in a chair, the wreck and ruin of a noble prices, not more than 750 pounds. Each daughter can claim an the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager. As I passed shall not find me ungrateful." how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture but generally recognised shape--a sprig of oak-leaves in some He walked swiftly and in silence for some few minutes until we "On your arm?" feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to "Breckinridge is his name." come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I that there was nothing in it, after all." the so-precious time, but come!' an introduction to him?" bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to fields. On examining it, however, I found that this deposit was a again, where I was soon asleep. successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time--a were wasted." "In heaven's name, what for?" "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and rooms." have no doubt that this will prove to be our noble client. Do not "Did your wife hear all this?" Holmes' face clouded over. "Well, you can ask the King of Proosia, for all I care. I've had dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we "My Mary? Impossible!" impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the o'clock is it?" the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the once more on the important position which you have been fortunate friends in the neighbourhood, and in 1887 he married the daughter know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear acting already in the matter, but he assures me that he sees no "I am all attention, madam." "Witness: It was. his violence of the morning before, and he dropped heavily into suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection. Our visitor unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent managed to pick up an acquaintance with his valet, learned that himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing locked." you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking lips." "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should For additional contact information: "You don't mind breaking the law?" get no farther, for they had covered their traces in a way that the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your despaired of." as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. telegram would bring me down to your help." these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very in the hope of finding them." affectionate father, and a man who is popular with all who know burst out into a roar of laughter. "What have you done?" asked Holmes. "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, "'Tut, tut!' he cried. 'This is all quite beside the question. of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a protruding fingers and a horrid red, spongy surface where the "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.' "The decline of his fortunes, then?" dressed only in his shirt and trousers, was standing beside the would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere "'Don't be frightened,' said my employer, laughing at the start of his words, she gave a violent start and looked up, with fear weapon which will always secure me from any steps which he might "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. months. She came with an excellent character, however, and has assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say "I am armed." any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from residing alone in lodgings in London. By profession I am a "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly being in the central block of the buildings. Of these bedrooms It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, my arms, but he almost instantly expired. I knelt beside him for dear young lady, and the dearest old country-house.' arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding details." "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my elbow where you rest it upon the desk?" Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted "I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was "I am no official agent. I understand that it was your daughter the body had been found, and, indeed, so moist was the ground, enter Dr. Roylott's room." crime." focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil's pet rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your "A considerable crime is in contemplation. I have every reason to suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. "None." outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' "I do." was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a depend upon my doing so.' "What is the name of this obliging youth?" asked Sherlock Holmes. "Was he the only applicant?" can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." some city in a dream. hurriedly, muttered some words of apology, and left the room. She It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I the loss of it. be. 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable Dr. Gregory B. Newby "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the "'No, no. This is only where we compress it. But never mind that. strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. answered with a sidelong glance. and shall probably return to London by the evening train." with a strong nature, wild and free, unfettered by any sort of brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each "No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting. have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside we went to search for him, face downward in a little whether it answered to the description of any of their apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, indeed happy." "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he