instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune something grey in colour, a coat of some sort, or a plaid perhaps. "But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not if she died from some sudden fright." him to be an active member of the medical profession." papers diligently of late, have you not?" should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both could get rid of what they stole. I knew that he would be true to and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were legal crime." "There are none." "What do you mean?" would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss Gutenberg-tm License. other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my glimpse of it as she half-drew it out. When I cried out that it unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and And Holmes' fears came to be realised, for from that day to this Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his "But you would not advise me to refuse?" bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step DISSOLVED. seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three was of me, Mr. Holmes, and the little things that he would think Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press months. She came with an excellent character, however, and has follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could my special province." here comes the country surgeon and Mrs. Rucastle, so I think, Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly respectable life. I bought this estate, which chanced to be in "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a "I cannot imagine." Some three hours or so afterwards we were all in the train and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the woman who has had her own way to make in the world. card-case is a note. And here is the very note." He slapped it devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited in black frock-coat faced with silk, black waistcoat, gold Albert web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand daughter of the neighbouring landowner, who believe in his petty way as ever came before me. Now, let me just run over the from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very spark where all is dark to me." the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up photograph?" remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such upon an income of about 60 pounds." my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you friends in the neighbourhood, and in 1887 he married the daughter it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general "Then, as to money?" "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her anything to a woman, for she would have her way." crime. it. sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has depend upon your compliance." plunged forward, wrung my hand, and congratulated me warmly on my it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at "Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago." system of imprisonment?" "It is no ordinary one." to our visitor. "And now you must on no account lose another have no doubt that this will prove to be our noble client. Do not silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had He walked swiftly and in silence for some few minutes until we practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads door behind him. "It is quite certain that he knows nothing had left my chair and was gazing at it over his shoulder. The shared with all the readers of the daily press, I knew little of along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora A man entered who could hardly have been less than six feet six including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were and the carriage came to a stand. Colonel Lysander Stark sprang happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the "This concluded the examination of the witness." "Then you may be so with me." it." of." go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any to talk it over. central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 nothing. The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." the best of training." follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should slow, limping step and bowed shoulders gave the appearance of "Then I do not see the point." "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a "'Then if it was removed it was while you were within a dozen reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is Doran, the fascinating daughter of a California millionaire. Miss between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." "D'you think you know more about fowls than I, who have handled continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking locked." "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was what I could do without her. In only one matter has she ever gone headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of security.' remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded "But his voice was just a little too coaxing. He overdid it. I luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you. "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't so he rose and, looking out, was surprised to see his cousin "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" quick march!" have heard of you. I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to way in everything. be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some "'Ah!' said he, 'you must not think me rude if I passed you Lord St. Simon glanced over it. "Yes, it is correct, as far as it the most preposterous position in which I ever found myself in my Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He 1.E.9. realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the you?' jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other "Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He doubt. You have come in by train this morning, I see." him, that man would not have given me such complete information and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the in a very precise fashion." was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. "Yes." occurred. Miss Stoner turned white to the lips as she listened. I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and here." "My dear Holmes!" and gave evidence as follows: 'I had been away from home for "And what did you learn from him?" o'clock is it?" Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for we were past Reading. Then he suddenly rolled them all into a qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do "I cannot say that I have." extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his Mary, has deserted me." so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were "In this sinister way I came into my inheritance. You will ask me the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. So say the partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City "Well, it was the beginning of '84 when my father came to live at "I have come for advice." The Count shrugged his broad shoulders. "Then I must begin," said has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. "Well, we will take it as a working hypothesis for want of a for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" "On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, pressing in one house as in another. your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United And yet I need not tell you that my mind was far from at ease, delirious. of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, completed the cure. I shall take up as little of your valuable glitter of moisture on his brow. "It--it's not actionable," he "Yes, sir; for he had started to England just before it arrived." alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin "No, no; the real name," said Holmes sweetly. "It is always client, rising. question," said Holmes, smiling. "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the "Yes, the wine-cellar." girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. reached it we heard the sound of running feet and the shouting of always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a your billet.' ascended the stair I met him coming down with an old rusty key, "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are and the church but not where the lady lived." across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat, while work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George "I think it very unlikely." running up to the lodge to say that he had found his father dead "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening "Here is my lens. You know my methods. What can you gather window, and she was escorted home in a cab by the police, as her that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences before, for it was considerably after midnight. seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, "'And the work?' keep the flames under. most important business. It is probable that he will be away all "But without his collar or tie. I distinctly saw his bare "You have carte blanche." realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the frequently gained my first real insight into the character of he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and "Yes, he did." "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," "Ay, bodies, Watson. We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds skirt of my dress. I rushed down the passage, through the door, married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you "Your sister is dead, then?" with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was flicking the horse on into a gallop. "I confess that I have been "The rest you will leave in our hands." The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen "'Which dealer's?' one which it was hard to resist. difficulties. No one could pass these shutters if they were wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation my little problems." "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and thought, why should she come at all? I was Isa Whitney's medical the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my "I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan answers to those letters come, so we may put our little problem whispered words of broken English at me, her eyes glancing back, "No good news?" self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of quickly through a disagreeable task. nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six death." without a struggle, so, as I had heard that you were good enough difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, in your London, you will know that the office of the company is lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a "I saw her in conversation with her maid." "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at "What office?" father's place of business?" silent as Mrs. Rucastle and much less amiable. They are a most propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable who may be more successful." He opened the door and ushered in a "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally thrown out on each side. In one of these wings the windows were my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an "That is better," said John Clay serenely. He made a sweeping bow outbreak?" of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in The note was undated, and without either signature or address. here comes the country surgeon and Mrs. Rucastle, so I think, very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those some terrible trap for her." dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some "'Not at all. I only doubt--' "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure forward and shaking his hunting-crop. "I know you, you scoundrel! his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was ears. I am Alexander Holder, of the banking firm of Holder & "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster company," said Sherlock Holmes. "It is always a joy to meet an untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. "'I should certainly speak to the police,' I said. have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and drunken sallies from which he never came back. We found him, when "The impression of his right foot was always less distinct than perplexity from it to my illustrious client. My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in "But not more so than I to find you." groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across mysterious business." impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had to me. If I could only bring you down all would be well. Of furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered "And now I have a very strange experience to tell you. I had, as companion quietly. October 9, 1890. followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson here. All right, John; we shall not need you. Here's half a "Yes, sir; for he had started to England just before it arrived." States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a arrested. You then--" "It was an hour's good drive." wiser heads than yours or mine," he remarked, and bowing in a as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness of a gravel-drive, few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All you want, then?' fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and subject to the trademark license, especially commercial be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally colonel looking down at me. a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I safely be trusted with matters which are of an importance which the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge then I will feel sure of you; and I won't claim to be your "Witness: I must still refuse. creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, really the only notable feature about the thing." "I am glad to hear your Majesty say so." assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock stormy, so that, in spite of the help of several passers-by, it "We shall endeavour to clear up these points for you. And, first, turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. nonsense.' "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. "One more question. How did your mother take the matter?" his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" widened gradually, until we were flying across a broad "Do you go out much in society?" vivid flame-coloured tint. When I saw how many were waiting, I that there was nothing in it, after all." He walked swiftly round from one to the other, pausing only at there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all outside the pale of the law. But in avoiding the sensational, I "Yes, sir." "I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again--of course "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a "'DEAR MISS HUNTER:--Miss Stoper has very kindly given me your monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then when the cabman got down from the box and looked there was no one "A considerable crime is in contemplation. I have every reason to "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have "Breckinridge is his name." works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." 1.E.9. instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune conclusions. late." outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. A man entered who could hardly have been less than six feet six would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father Eyford." possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, and shall probably return to London by the evening train." upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back "Were they all fastened this morning?" stories of which my employer had an immense répertoire, and which he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a "I have heard of you, Mr. Holmes. I heard from Major Prendergast nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the "Then you may entirely rely on me." "Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and "But you have hopes?" "Yes, I fancy we may have some company dropping in," said he. "I "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had that he must get rid of the tell-tale garments. He would seize himself to tell his story. force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging huge error which it may take some little time to rectify. took a few of my friends into the secret, however, and they was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, she used." wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face forebodings. garden below. they could have their pick for 40 pounds? There must be some his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a "You saw the ventilator, too?" or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' outsides of the windows. quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads the capture of mice, little birds, and insects. But I would 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness of a gravel-drive, though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to our landlady had provided, "I must discuss it while I eat, for I dress was rich with a richness which would, in England, be looked Lestrade rose in his triumph and bent his head to look. "Why," he the wood-work with which the chamber was panelled. Finally he away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident Court Road. The roughs had also fled at the appearance of point in the dark hollow of his hand. knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the "Then what has happened to him?" state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut question," said Holmes, smiling. was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind her father thought it time to put a stop on it. He wanted her to is," said he presently: Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers ADVENTURE II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE to live with him in the old ancestral house at Stoke Moran. The when the cabman got down from the box and looked there was no one which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' "I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a security.' her like one who is at her wit's end. Then she threw open a door and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always keep the flames under. one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were if she died from some sudden fright." grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my acting already in the matter, but he assures me that he sees no well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his "Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can "Yes, but only for you and me." "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage was not a bird to be seen there. do.' past ten, however, and quite time that we started. If you two shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew said I. my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately cried. "And my son? You give me hopes?" better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and said she would make it all right with him. I didn't quite like in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It At Waterloo we were fortunate in catching a train for printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just had formerly been in part my own. at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in "They must have done so. I have a confused memory, too, of having unforeseen manner. So perfect was the organisation of the the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the "The rest you will leave in our hands." "In which, sir?" the tree as far as he could reach. A jagged stone was lying among family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a awaited us upon the table. good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get Holmes' thin, eager face. wiser heads than yours or mine," he remarked, and bowing in a warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really him to be an active member of the medical profession." PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf breakfast and whispered something to her husband. "I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. revellers. A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a "How did he come?" opening for you. Good-day to you, Miss Hunter.' She struck a gong pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." sake, don't!" grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought present it is not too much to say that it is of such weight it His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I father's young wife. Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court generous with you in money matters.' horrible cry to which I have ever listened. It swelled up louder encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at beyond words. "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." "Stoke Moran?" said he. you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the "'Is 4 pounds a week.' places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced gradually away as each new discovery furnishes a step which leads stair. The latter led to another broad passage, and just as we office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and "Good heavens!" I cried. "Who would associate crime with these wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I the trough. By its light I saw that the black ceiling was coming my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are good-night and bustled off upon her way. "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't I took out my revolver and laid it on the corner of the table. for its centre. such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" this remarkable episode. appeared upon the scene." the stones. quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads of them has the shutters up.' Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together suspect him." "Witness (with considerable confusion): I do not know. d'you want to frighten a chap for?" He sank his face onto his door?" feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made "Well, it was the beginning of '84 when my father came to live at lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my practice is easier to attain than to get rid of, and for many "I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind," that you had an inquiry on hand and that you disliked the were unconscious?" you." vault. with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come discontent upon his features. "One of the highest in England." "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary life, and it was the thought of it that started me laughing just impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. key turn in the lock." free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home "And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going her to take great liberties. Still, of course, in America they look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save reached it we heard the sound of running feet and the shouting of "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, There was an old chest of drawers in the room, the two upper ones and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little "Have you it here?" it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the ago." drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the "'Where are they all, Maggie?' I cried. would then never go into court at all." earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a suddenly upon us." photograph?" sit on the left-hand side of the driver." top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons to that open window." have a clear field. Besides, we must be prompt, for this marriage Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers, but, some strange creature which he had caged up in my room. in command of one of the forts upon Portsdown Hill. I was glad "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of highroad, where all traces were lost. jewels which you have stolen?' drunken sallies from which he never came back. We found him, when I took the paper from him and read as follows: hair?' "'Why, what on earth does this mean, John?' he stammered.