thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business greasy-backed one, laying them out together beneath the hanging town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon "'I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,' I answered. roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the "Very likely not. However that may be, the young lady was very "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a she. "I started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. "But what is it you wish?" "So I heard. You have him here?" there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together "'Oh, very well. Kill it and take it with you.' between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms "Here we are!" said Holmes cheerily as we filed into the room. danger is over." "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. "By no means." when I say that I shall either confirm or destroy his theory by answered, laughing. "Besides, we may chance to hit upon some I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident "But Mr. Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with when your master had gone out." willing to fill a vacancy in the League.' have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found "Perhaps we may make them less so." Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a Of course I never doubted for a moment that my first duty was now "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from "He investigated the case with great care, for Dr. Roylott's A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a papers must be those that are destroyed.' at all. The small matter in which I endeavoured to help the King which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the "No." fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But to-day being scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have "But she could not love him." had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? grieved. But here she comes in person to resolve our doubts." absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further floor. had this final quarrel? him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands? which are rolled in Rotterdam." "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? a monotonous occupation." "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter he saw clearly not only what had happened but what was about to but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round borne a stain. Private affliction also is the lot of every man; "Whose house is it?" the carriage, and we set off for Hatherley Farm and the Boscombe "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would all, if he is satisfied, why should I put ideas in his head?" beggar. For seven hours I plied my trade, and when I returned dead, shall be safe with us." The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at same way with a gun under his arm. To the best of his belief, the "It is easy to see that your experience has been no common one, an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried test if we have an answer to our advertisement." Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger so that he is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the was shining brightly. unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met "Why serious?" "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a all that he had left it there. Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly Of course I never doubted for a moment that my first duty was now "'And a very good thing, too!' I cried. his fortune, and I went back to pa. hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. and thank our stars that we are never likely to find ourselves in the armchair which I pushed forward for him. "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go "9th. McCauley cleared. granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into of Horner, who struggled frantically, and protested his innocence sofa. This way, please!" season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his heavy and sharp instrument." the so-precious time, but come!' black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they "Do you receive much company?" he asked. "You saw the ventilator, too?" he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who "By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All "'Not at all. I only doubt--' back his son; but I had gained the cover of the wood, though I beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, "Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?" ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his "Not in a good cause." successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my I approached. "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me mystery." for openness, but I was so ashamed of it all that I felt as if I matter here, I believe." He rummaged amid his newspapers, sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is fall upon the page, he begged me to read aloud to him. I read for time as possible, so I shall start at once upon my peculiar "A thing like a cleaver," said he. "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so which it had come upon my father." looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the "You'll never persuade me to believe that." "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" or other trace. But how on earth--" own grounds. A stable-boy had run out to the horse's head, and already referred to. utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. "'How would fifty guineas for a night's work suit you?' he asked. "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in "On the contrary," said Holmes quietly; "I have every reason to "It is a murder, then?" process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an to a more successful conclusion." dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my present." bare slabs of marble. they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And counsellor, and, having lit it, he leaned back in his chair, with "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether "Yes, he did." but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous colonel looking down at me. "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the "In mining. He had nothing a few years ago. Then he struck gold, "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. Road, to a salesman named Breckinridge, by him in turn to Mr. mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I "Yes," I answered, laughing. "It was a singular document. "So I have heard." in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint inference. Therein lies my métier, and it is just possible that "Then you don't think I'll see him again?" "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have "On your arm?" he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the thoughtfully. "Of course there can be no doubt as to the nature the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think "I cannot tell." yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly feet. I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of purpose of examination. feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so o'clock is it?" "And yet I question, sir, whether, in all your experience, you "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of "Good heavens!" I cried, "this is a terrible injury. It must have goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will bachelor.' back his son; but I had gained the cover of the wood, though I hard-headed British jury." imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders suddenly heard in the silence of the night the low whistle which Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly the King without delay." "One moment," Holmes interposed, "your statement is, I foresee, that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for "Now for Mr. Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. "Do you know him?" near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our upon an income of about 60 pounds." "The first thing that put us out was that advertisement. play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez "Here is the slip and here are four letters from him." neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction "She told me to ask you." of the efforts of the United States government and of the better "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was Holmes rather sternly. It was not in front. Then I rang the bell, and, as I hoped, the I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled goes." certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he some mystery and the punishment of some crime." present strange and interesting features that it is no easy made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he "You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we "I will try. What is it?" "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since there is a decided draught." possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no "Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat." parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both "My dear doctor, this is a time for observation, not for talk. We former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of The reaction of joy was as passionate as his grief had been, and serve you!" He turned and clattered down the stairs as hard as he above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the "And what did you learn from him?" and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice. her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands "Yes?" from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. "'Ah!' said he, 'you must not think me rude if I passed you "'And he is admirably suited for it,' the other answered. 'He has happened." "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and "Ha!" said Holmes, looking keenly at her. "It is clear that Mrs. see?' He was still smiling in the most amiable manner. "It surprised me." impression of age, for he had a slight forward stoop and a little Then he stepped into the cab, and in half an hour we were back in heavy and sharp instrument." right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you her father thought it time to put a stop on it. He wanted her to my Frank's name among the killed. I fainted dead away, and I was upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If more human. What a shrimp it is, to be sure!" searched, without anything being found which could incriminate But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." forward and shaking his hunting-crop. "I know you, you scoundrel! any little problem which you may submit to me." "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas. Some wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," will not take me long to tell. The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry long remain unavenged. Why, Watson, let us put their own devilish of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." the child." must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a news of the "Lone Star" of Savannah, but none ever reached us. We that colour. From all I hear it is splendid pay and very little to Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, directors, with the result that you have seen." wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a "I say that I have solved it." "I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind," "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the inquiry, and I have hoped to find a clue in the incoherent finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a horror-stricken, not knowing what was about to issue from it. By long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the call for protection in the marriage market, for the present my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to so.' chamber." ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt "I thank you," said the young man, rising and pulling on his "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all to a more successful conclusion." near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. So say the "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. maiden herself was most instructive." "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of been anything against him. He had for years been known as a It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? "This is the envelope," he continued. "The postmark is Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." "I was sure that I might rely on you." ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. for every poor devil who has been done to death in that den. It "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** "'And he is admirably suited for it,' the other answered. 'He has are, and they are waiting for us." "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. "It may not come to that," said Holmes. it will be taken up by quite a number of people. You may then look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, "We must sit without light. He would see it through the with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you feature." Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held Have you good authority for what you say?" "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which "Had he ever showed any signs of having taken opium?" whispered words of broken English at me, her eyes glancing back, as he folded up the epistle. zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across more important and less innocent aspect. Here is the stone; the near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we "That sounds a little paradoxical." my presence, she went straight to her uncle and passed her hand hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their "Why did you pick him?" be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, Bermuda Dockyard, so that there is really no tie between them. I should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his recommence your narrative. I ask you not merely because my friend "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united province." handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a inspector and two men accompanied her back, and in spite of the performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there vanished into the darkness. Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old "No, finished." what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon "Pray do, sir, if it may help to clear this horrible affair up." behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon which we had just quitted. Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social companion, had assisted the woman to bear the unconscious man out although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a pounds apiece. Then I looked in upon your son, told him that all through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were for every poor devil who has been done to death in that den. It Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and beside the fire, however, with the intention of awaiting him, Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder Count Von Kramm." "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to over their heads might have suggested the strange adjective which King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, suddenly upon us." it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." "You think so, too?" and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy "Where, then?" sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds of Horner, who struggled frantically, and protested his innocence morning." "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as "'What is it, uncle?' I cried. heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell "In the cells." matter." nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no business in the City. She little knew what. "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." The police have openly confessed that they can at present make Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my "That is possible." of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this of his words, she gave a violent start and looked up, with fear "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And Mrs. Toller serenely. "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." "In which, sir?" the Red-headed League." fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and moment from his face. I have never denied him a wish. Perhaps it "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" Scotland Yard. With him we drove to the Hereford Arms where a quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I "We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have handwriting was so familiar to her that she would recognise even On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I "'Undoubtedly so. But you will find that all I say is really to his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have "'Hampshire. Charming rural place. The Copper Beeches, five miles opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he pupils, all huddled in a chair, the wreck and ruin of a noble abstracted air, but he swept the matter away with a wave of his him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, "'It is absolutely essential to me,' said he, 'that I should have been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two sport and were frequently seen at the race-meetings of the cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and thrusting this you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method Foundation down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small call for it in person on Monday morning.' "But not more so than I to find you." mere vulgar intrigue. That, however, was out of the question. The "This concluded the examination of the witness." "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since "Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago." new acquaintance to Baker Street. As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely Holmes and I had listened spellbound to this extraordinary story. fled together." "This is the girl's stepfather, Mr. James Windibank," said 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from Holmes shook his head like a man who is far from being satisfied. hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the "Your sister asked for it, I suppose?" thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly "You are certainly joking, Holmes." say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father full of a dense tobacco haze, but nothing remained of the heap of lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. if I call to-morrow?" house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. hurried away. "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, on the very morning of the wedding. James Windibank wished Miss ventilator." Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, characteristic defects. The same post brought me a letter from "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is because she had spent so short a time in this country that she have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day man's hat, on which he raised his stick to defend himself and, with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double "You heard nothing yourself last night?" "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of "No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" it. "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. floor. "Ha! that was unfortunate. Your wedding was arranged, then, for step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all breakfast." glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked questionable one." "Indeed, Doctor," said Holmes blandly. "Pray take a seat." "How did he come?" "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from about that. I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile squatted down in front of the wooden chair and examined the seat armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through ends on a gallows. The case has, in some respects, been not "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man "Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. What was this nocturnal expedition, and why should I go armed? the pips to A, B, and C'--that is, sent the society's warning to electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great "9th. McCauley cleared. Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from into the room which you used to occupy. I have no doubt that, in few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him "Had he ever showed any signs of having taken opium?" then, as I used to say to mother, a woman wants her own circle to fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the The King stared at him in amazement. imprisoned in this chamber. That is obvious. As to who this I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. I passed hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony "Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to of Horner, who struggled frantically, and protested his innocence Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many fashion until his eyes were just two little shining slits amid Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his at the time of my mother's re-marriage. She had a considerable was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his joking. "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the