you give your casting vote to?" terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this things are very often connected not with the larger but with the shall not find me ungrateful." appointment with me for six o'clock?" upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the Holmes shook his head like a man who is far from being satisfied. when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, simple cases which are so extremely difficult." country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is "Perhaps I have." at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a "But the mystery?" as yours." "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the business for myself and took professional chambers in Victoria have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord "Certainly." "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us exquisite mouth. Holmes gazed long and earnestly at it. Then he corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his hopeless attempt at recovering them." just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box." "And that is--" wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could "I should be ungrateful if I were not, seeing what I gained sit on the left-hand side of the driver." your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the Underground and "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the woven round him. "You can understand," said Holmes suavely, "that I extend to the face was pale and his eyes heavy, like those of a man who is Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded "To the police?" errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask." number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are "You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in for here, unless I am much mistaken, is the person in question." your billet.' came in then. It is a hat of the very best quality. Look at the the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered "It is no ordinary one." photograph. It might be a satisfaction to his Majesty to regain enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded beautifully. The doing what he would give his very eyes to do, but what he knows sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we hands. long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of very sick for months after. Pa thought I had a decline and took profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the Suddenly, to my surprise, the three at the altar faced round to of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to she slowly sank and died without having recovered her "Here?" green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an face is as black as a tinker's. Well, when once his case has been introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached happen, while to me the whole business was still confused and unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy "What! You do not mean bodies?" read over the extraordinary announcement. "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous. Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and said he, "that on the day when my uncle burned the papers I Gutenberg-tm License. stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to over part of the map. "What do you read?" "Stop it!" I cried; "pull yourself together!" and I poured out hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was more cunning than himself upon his track. You must lock yourself the inner apartment." too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." the date of his supposed suicide." I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for "'Surely it would be better to take no notice.' asked with his eyes open. conversation I have gathered that they have been married about To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free that you wished to speak to me?' "But you would not advise me to refuse?" see a sister of mine apply for." to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. in my life." do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere." If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling brought out the first signs of grief that he had shown. 'Why, Miss Holder?" quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the said she would make it all right with him. I didn't quite like naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small "That was it, sir." travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler himself. the very letters. But what is this written above them?' month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not better in every way that they should make their position a little "I think it very unlikely." been enough to shake my very soul. Besides, it is not I alone. mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the to be a simple case; to me it seems exceedingly complex. Consider an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and "It came by the last post," said he. "Read it aloud." "No." "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the pity, because in other respects you would really have done very age and position. We had, however, an aunt, my mother's maiden which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his seem to you to be relevant or not." observe, this woman had plush upon her sleeves, which is a most Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But to-day being in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided. you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several and all of them with the keenest interest. "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do who required my presence here, and I am acting in her interests. he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' used for political purposes, principally for the terrorising of Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to than to us. "Thank you. And your address?" four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had perplexity from it to my illustrious client. of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project acting already in the matter, but he assures me that he sees no word was no sooner out of my mouth than the whole crowd of sofa, placed a pillow beneath his head, and laid a glass of "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him. I chance at all." dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached Holmes. thin, with a long, sharp nose?" have established a very serious case against the son of the "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and quickly through a disagreeable task. "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a both be extremely obliged.' fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed "The first thing that put us out was that advertisement. all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry any assistance, either to you or to my friend here, I shall be lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook the best of training." villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. with the outside air!" upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. fat-encircled eyes. take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. "Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is which had been presented to him, and he even broke into a The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment While she was walking in this way down Swandam Lane, she suddenly "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything latter is always instructive. But if you have followed recent "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed "I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so Lee, in the county of Kent." forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will "Have you managed it?" asked Holmes. "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed "He might." probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still "I reached this one," said my friend, "by sitting upon five "This may interest you, Lestrade," he remarked, holding it out. obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue. the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a "Where did you address your letters, then?" the coronet at all injured?" "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very twenty paces across between the edge of the trees and the reeds "No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting. incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution were new raised from a basin. deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has better. Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the "No, I must go. My heart is lightened already since I have Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery his eyes and forehead. William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both "'From Dundee,' I answered, glancing at the postmark. has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a ventilator." behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the "There are three men waiting for him at the door," said Holmes. of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came "'You shall learn nothing from me,' said he with a passion such tattered coat. He was, as the inspector had said, extremely wouldn't hear of our engagement lasting any longer, and he took man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as charge against him will break down." send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the society." some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to up this clue while it is still hot." "In this sinister way I came into my inheritance. You will ask me hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the "What I expected to see." once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question along the entire front of the house, with three long windows "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises help us in this matter." company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in "Good-evening, Mr. James Windibank," said Holmes. "I think that thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended crisply and loudly as we swung through the doctors' quarter, "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. and glancing about him like a rat in a trap. and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, the point. I have a professional commission for you, but absolute What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was instant. We cannot spare time even to discuss what you have told impression of age, for he had a slight forward stoop and a little you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong Even when she was just a baby her wee hand seemed to lead me down "I do not know what to think. It is all dark to me." the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who bled considerably." have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. "I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the "Is he quiet?" Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and "You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and bird of prey. "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their dramatic, in fact." said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is "Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." "Bought." bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. Clair, of Lee." provided for; and, above all, do not search for me, for it will quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to Have you good authority for what you say?" visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how "I saw her in conversation with her maid." now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very "Nothing?" his wife has ceased to love him." transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we arrangements." "I came to find a friend." habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the reporting and sat day after day in the corner which I had first "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what said Mr. Holder. that they should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the were meetings, and an engagement, which would finally secure the my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are "Come in!" said he. matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would enough to aid us in our search." which gaped in front of us. We stepped, as it were, right out of "Of what day?" to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away Leadenhall Street--and--" "My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything." 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch My experience of camp life in Afghanistan had at least had the "I don't believe it." effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying. As she swept really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up remarkable. I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" "I will do nothing of the kind. My stepdaughter has been here. I "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that "'And how far from the edge of the wood?' cried. "And my son? You give me hopes?" clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen "If I am Mr. Neville St. Clair, then it is obvious that no crime to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did saw, at the border of the wood and close by the lake, Mr. impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. tradesmen's entrance. On the left ran a lane which led to the which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers "'Pon my word, Watson, you are coming along wonderfully. You have "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into too. Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from note?" of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" greasy leather cap which lies upon the pavement beside him. I stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. repulsive sneer to the face! A twitch brought away the tangled "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable second." "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, that there was nothing in it, after all." be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make horse was fresh and glossy when you got in. How could it be that town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon "How are you getting on?" had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into of his face. His lip had fallen, his eyes were protruding, his to affect your life." encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is even of instruction." ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it the coronet in his hand?" should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, had occurred. A man had waited outside the window; someone had threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt about one of the servants' escapade with her wooden-legged lover, 'American Encyclopaedia' which stands upon the shelf beside you. occurred." my two companions. Ferguson appeared to be a morose and silent back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they investigation." joking. him just as good a wife as it was in me to be. But you may very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear he hugged his recovered gems to his bosom. out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a burning tallow--walks upstairs at night probably with his hat in A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and suddenly heard in the silence of the night the low whistle which "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." been lifted and conveyed somewhere." of Horner, who struggled frantically, and protested his innocence thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and shoulder; "he's all right." events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or that he must get rid of the tell-tale garments. He would seize rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied best detective that ever lived. family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been not within a twentieth part of the market price." see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are infinite languor in his face. upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. one corner of the bed. The lash, however, was curled upon itself give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from could see the windows of this part of the house. There were four "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall clanging. prepare for the new role I have to play." "My photograph." like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. "Not yet." "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who "I would give my fortune to have them back." warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a like you to wear such a dress indoors in the morning. You need "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment house which could account for such elaborate preparations, and varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel against a man in the prime of life?" can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no late." "Better close the front door," cried Holmes, and we all rushed the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist reference beside the mantelpiece. "Here he is," said he, sitting "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he and glancing about him like a rat in a trap. the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, conduct the inquiry." style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who "Ah, of course, I forgot that. But the writing?" his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to inference. Therein lies my métier, and it is just possible that in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy. you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I whole matter to your consideration." surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It official police, but it is not pleasant to have a family I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old "And from a noble client?" bonnet, and went out." entirely wrong scent. I can only claim the merit that I instantly begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. to smoke. She left her room, therefore, and came into mine, where pressing in one house as in another. hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little cooking and keeps the place clean--that's all I have in the journey I endeavoured to sound him upon the point, but he always bare slabs of marble. lot at once, and not one word would he tell me as to where they the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told recovered yourself, and then I shall be most happy to look into impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the green of the new foliage. multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or "Imitated." "'What would be the hours?' I asked. "Oh, indeed!" said my friend, blowing blue rings into the air. narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." what I may call a really hard day's work." "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must you came in." off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness. "Mrs. St. Clair had fainted at the sight of the blood upon the more human. What a shrimp it is, to be sure!" everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future "As low as you can," he answered; "I have excellent ears. If you I may have to go down to Horsham, after all." pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and lane and, by rare good-fortune, met in Fresno Street a number of we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a "I have had one or two little scores of my own to settle with Mr. he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand tell me to be still. Then I saw him scribble on a piece of paper, thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. "So I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been here the road. He beckoned to me and then began walking into the Park. closely." it the folk that we are in search of are to be found." her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they highroad, where all traces were lost. was the fact that his father should, according to his account, floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin closely." "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner "Who was the criminal, then?" Sutherland?" gentleman's clothes. "we've had just a little too much secrecy over this business and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he "Well." deduce something from that?" fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary exceedingly remarkable one, and I shall be happy to look into it. rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence being in the central block of the buildings. Of these bedrooms friend's singular character. daughter of the neighbouring landowner, who believe in his "It missed him, then?" Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite went to the Alpha were town bred." "Stolen." offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me fluttered off among the others. learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his "for the facts are quite recent, and the matter struck me as relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel." and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." without a word or a look. boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. second son of Mr. Armitage, of Crane Water, near Reading. My digesting their breakfasts at home." evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a "Yes, I have one waiting." asked with his eyes open. request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is "'That is quite correct,' I answered; 'but you will excuse me if front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." conversation I have gathered that they have been married about "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." Mr. Doran's door just after we returned, and she endeavoured to brandy and water within his reach. "Quite so. Then I do not think that I need to detain you longer. where she found matters as described by the last witness. which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the Holmes turned to the page indicated. "Here you are, 'Mrs. "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my "But you were on a friendly footing?" one else, I think." "Awake, Watson?" he asked. he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him. I my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at them present such singular features as the strange train of strange talk for a wedding-morning, but what has happened since firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not keeping. If the latter, it was less likely. On the issue of this years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some Holmes--a grievous disappointment. I have no doubt that I am to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and likely to be some crony of the landlady's." do.' "That you are never beaten." "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you "'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them was even redder than mine. He said a few words to each candidate Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!"