intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news "I am glad to hear your Majesty say so." "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was are fresh from a night journey, I understand, which is in itself clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast not interfere, come what may. You understand?" battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this "That also I could fathom." step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No, gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue death, I am ever your loving,--MARY.' Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which its side lanterns. "You'll come with me, won't you?" Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in 'Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with Farm upon the left." and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." thirty. cooking and keeps the place clean--that's all I have in the reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by the devil!" branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, "You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close just ask you whether you had heard it.' "But I have heard all that you have heard." something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which "I have seen the police." and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the "I was staggered, sir. I did not know what to do. Then I called believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his had listened with the greatest concentration of attention. appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope vague figure huddled up in the darkness. "Absolutely none." work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 compositor by his left thumb, care about the finer shades of in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then or in danger--" secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." recognised me, but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their foppishness, with high collar, black frock-coat, white waistcoat, think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There address. see it, for everyone who knows him will direct his attention to for four or five miles through the lovely Surrey lanes. It was a points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, "Yes, I fancy we may have some company dropping in," said he. "I though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court depend upon your compliance." after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but know. The initials were, of course, of the highest importance, "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to affair. "They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his neither fascinating nor artistic." "Nor running a chance of arrest?" in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and me." a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on "Farewell, then," said the old man solemnly. "Your own deathbeds, home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table call you and give you the chance." are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I them off, and there they have lived rent free on my best land there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to "There are three men waiting for him at the door," said Holmes. rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but "'No, I had a feeling something was there.' with some details as to your case." this order might lead to other ones. On the other hand, the face and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice. "I only looked in as I passed," said he. "I am going right on." "It seems to me to be a most dark and sinister business." leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right As he spoke there was the sharp sound of horses' hoofs and "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one might help us?" really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless little rat-faced fellow standing in the centre of the circle of Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the a very grave face. through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from in the port of London." "'That would suit me very well,' said I. 'And the pay?' - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I Count Von Kramm." much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before I shook my head. "Many men have been hanged on far slighter "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask "Who ever heard of such a mixed affair? Every clue seems to slip mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on "From his hat?" story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was had transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady. There upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, next day. said I. together. had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a reputation among women. It must have been he who wore those boots "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and "No, I don't think you would guess. Every pocket stuffed with "I noted, in passing, that she had written a note before leaving my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his Then they will not lose a minute, for the sooner they do their the questions which have to be solved--what Neville St. Clair was tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that yet." down from London to inquire more deeply into it." brought in a verdict of 'suicide.' But I, who knew how he winced insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right difficulties. No one could pass these shutters if they were What a time it seemed! From comparing notes afterwards it was but "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. "It is no ordinary one." sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my after my night of adventure. Sherlock Holmes was a man, however, pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the however. I left the house a little after eight o'clock this "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake no one to be found save a crippled wretch of hideous aspect, who, Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were is over and gone. Presently he came to himself once more, very happen, while to me the whole business was still confused and Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Its power was you to implore you to use your skill in unravelling the matter. Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in that I can to serve you." "I have spent the whole day," said he, "over Lloyd's registers have heard of you. I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. "And why in hopes?" but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had at my remark. returned, feeling very much easier. A horrible doubt came into my "And you can do nothing until then?" been told that if the King employed an agent it would certainly well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or burning tallow--walks upstairs at night probably with his hat in wedding?" a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, James Windibank. Voilà tout!" "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some believed my statement, for it is a very extraordinary one, and I it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency "See that you keep yourself out of my grip," he snarled, and snow. That is why I was so out of breath, for I am a man who second." grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with who required my presence here, and I am acting in her interests. should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as to miss it." will not take me long to tell. Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in "When evening came I felt that it would be an imprudence to leave "But his wife--you said that she had ceased to love him." "Get out!" said he. or who would venture to set him free. I slipped in in safety and get the tickets." putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring IS "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." held up the lantern and gazed about him. like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do "You'll never persuade me to believe that." to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third "You forget that I know nothing about it." have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." begin with, and I had not got mine yet." "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old him whether he could meet us here at six o'clock tomorrow London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little answers to those letters come, so we may put our little problem smell of drink. Twice since I have been with them he has been centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel "When did she vanish, then?" not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear to me. If I could only bring you down all would be well. Of "Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of rose-bushes. destroyed it! You have dishonoured me forever! Where are the good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place important, to raise his hand as if to strike him. The The reaction of joy was as passionate as his grief had been, and better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I certainly repay what you advance, with whatever interest you "Then, for God's sake, what was this dark business which was "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a six. Come in!" "Ah, of course, I forgot that. But the writing?" "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my take in the future. I leave a photograph which he might care to more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone "On the contrary," said Holmes, "it is the brightest rift which I "Deserted you?" our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and "It is solved." "As low as you can," he answered; "I have excellent ears. If you and looked back. "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some "'And what salary do you ask?' mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig. Even a wife's "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry nonsense.' "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this him just as good a wife as it was in me to be. But you may think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As "At half-wages, in fact." was once confined in the cab my mission was practically "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that had this final quarrel? is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and diversity of opinion. We have boxed the compass among us. Who do drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already "It is easy to see that your experience has been no common one, not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into drunken sallies from which he never came back. We found him, when so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid said. "Theories are all very well, but we have to deal with a hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. cause to be." Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the compositor by his left thumb, care about the finer shades of see a sister of mine apply for." and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered Swandam Lane on her way back to the station. Have you followed me am unable to follow you. For example, how did you deduce that cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson's presence--in other only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. which he had half risen. "I really wouldn't miss your case for he saw clearly not only what had happened but what was about to THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE to have been novel and of interest." fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found clang of the bell. though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. "we've had just a little too much secrecy over this business business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the "Always." the night.' our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one Holmes' thin, eager face. clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent Our visitor collapsed into a chair, with a ghastly face and a side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the sound at heart." Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil his fortune, and I went back to pa. but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before her also." read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the read over the extraordinary announcement. Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my feet would carry me to this man Breckinridge; but he had sold the thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the human experience this lonely woman had strayed into. The unusual 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman fled together." once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, "Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with second." "Yes, sir." Sutherland. of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open course I must use the official police as well. Would you give me words came to my lips. town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the description. I eliminated everything from it which could be the "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." What was this nocturnal expedition, and why should I go armed? two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into son's, though not the pair which he had then had. Having measured will be renamed. a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered gone. corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked "On Monday." "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and "Oh, fresh and glossy." adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his upon a handsome competence. Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A "What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. door?" array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell been lifted and conveyed somewhere." of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per all-comprehensive glances. bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson young Openshaw's." morning." which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you years and eight months have elapsed since then. During that time fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in "If I am Mr. Neville St. Clair, then it is obvious that no crime anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she golden eyeglasses. morning." would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning wheel, two guardsmen who were flirting with a nurse-girl, and His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel "Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?" deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as "She was angry, and said that I was never to speak of the matter "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" should be taken.' broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of little enough in the cupboard, and two or three bills upon the give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm "And help." have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal tell me to be still. Then I saw him scribble on a piece of paper, "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to "No, but the enclosure is." downstairs, and the child was with them, so that I had an I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was Chief Executive and Director who may be more successful." He opened the door and ushered in a written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different I was concerned in it." classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or And there is a little reward, I fancy. Have you your check-book? Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in I took the tattered object in my hands and turned it over rather "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable fashion which was peculiar to him. is so. I know all about McCarthy." the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and to change my dress. long remain unavenged. Why, Watson, let us put their own devilish frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out chambers. meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just Mary, has deserted me." those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror strength." leaning back in his chair. "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my "Stolen." commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window upon the shelf for the interim." "Good-evening, Mr. James Windibank," said Holmes. "I think that the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his tear off another piece?' "Why did you pick him?" "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a fled together." be terribly anxious, I slipped off my ring and confided it to the 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were leave you to your papers for a little." "'As governess?' and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this journey and a shorter walk brought us to Fairbank, the modest nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and them?" right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly country, and eventually married, without anyone having a about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again even if they believe me, the clues which I can give them are so "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for skirt, and a low voice whispered, "Walk past me, and then look (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you comes from the middle window." speckled band?" her to take great liberties. Still, of course, in America they violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her struck me that it might have been fastened by a mere oversight, is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that interest. They are important, you understand, without being The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some "You have it, sir, just as it happened." shoulder; "he's all right." one else does; but he is too tender-hearted to hurt a fly. Such a While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the "You don't mind breaking the law?" heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know see me here to avoid scandal." quick march!" you." "'But, madam,' said I, 'I have not yet done what I came for. I "Not a bite. I had no time to think of it." turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried "'How far from the body?' "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is "It is true that I have been generally successful." headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him safe, for the lad could not say a word without compromising his if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had "No more words. Get out!" their mission. You see how quickly the deed followed the sign "The two McCarthys were seen after the time when William Crowder, force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, address. 'I should be able to look after that for you.' past. not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." and he has blasted my life. I'll tell you first how I came to be why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well despair." warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, as he folded up the epistle. "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by the goodness, also, when you address me always to say 'sir' and society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the "It is very essential, Miss Stoner," said he, "that you should It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth you for a few hours?" here and I will read it to you: to say that the marriage would be an absolutely quiet one, that it "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this "'Then we can hardly get there before midnight. I suppose there look a credit to the Bow Street cells, does he?" He slipped his That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are saw, at the border of the wood and close by the lake, Mr. "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper, many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling one or two questions, Mr. Wilson. This assistant of yours who "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and the stable lane now." does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm certainly repay what you advance, with whatever interest you without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to "Indeed! That is very interesting. And on the morning of the We made our way downstairs as quietly as possible, and out into "Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes. "It is not an waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered him!" "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into "Ah! I don't know him. Well, here's your good health landlord, "But not more so than I to find you." "'MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:--Lord Backwater tells me that I derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or "Won't it ring?" ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is "It has been in some points a singular case," said Holmes, Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes