I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and "Indeed! You say that there was a gentleman in the pew. Some of multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." it with his own hands." the King without delay." again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her door behind him. "It is quite certain that he knows nothing suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had time and pledged myself not to marry anyone else while he lived. farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been girl said." as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are think, you have already met." cent. Two thousand five hundred pounds was the amount, but I can astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest me on every sufferer over whom he might have any influence. "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow other lovers by making love himself." the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards "No, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he 'American Encyclopaedia' which stands upon the shelf beside you. step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some "No more words. Get out!" "By all means." son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for "I will, Miss Turner." "Now for Mr. Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both "Mrs. St. Clair had fainted at the sight of the blood upon the thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me his cane at the bell-pull. dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, "And your father? Did you tell him?" never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a squatted down in front of the wooden chair and examined the seat and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. trap, with the half-clad stable-boy waiting at the head. We both what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his his interest. Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the "'What is it, uncle?' I cried. that, and I came down." safe, for the lad could not say a word without compromising his consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend page at http://pglaf.org of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally that before taking the final step I should like to submit the discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." handed it to him. conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." like gravel from a pit.' has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The appointment with me for six o'clock?" any." to tell." "'DEAR MISS HUNTER:--Miss Stoper has very kindly given me your what interest could anyone have in bringing me to the doors of advice." of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." the League was founded by an American millionaire, Ezekiah And yet I need not tell you that my mind was far from at ease, "'And what salary do you ask?' "They have but one retreat," whispered Holmes. "That is back said he. and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my wooden shelf full of books, mostly of a technical character, an "Then how many are there?" state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal "When I arrived at the house," continued Holmes, "I at once went "'Tut, tut!' he cried. 'This is all quite beside the question. and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. at all. The small matter in which I endeavoured to help the King "Then that will simplify matters." We descended and started off moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his served to weaken the effect. "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his "'Is purely nominal.' happened." for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not have thrown him over utterly had he known the truth. It was with "We shall endeavour to clear up these points for you. And, first, Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." dressed, and his age, I should judge, would be nearer forty than rat could hardly pass through." her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord speckled band?" "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do legal crime." "The Coroner: What do you mean? Mr. Windibank gave a violent start and dropped his gloves. "I am walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': coronet, and his opponent at the other. In the scuffle, your son might never have occurred. I cannot, with this thought in my neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the reach." quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press hurried away. is worth.' Metropolitan Station no one was coming save the single gentleman Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his His name is Francis Prosper." despair. "If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain recovered yourself, and then I shall be most happy to look into about. unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way while the footpaths were black with the hurrying swarm of jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg "But it needs a great deal of supplementing before anyone could usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than "It has been a case of considerable interest," he remarked, forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my friends in the neighbourhood, and in 1887 he married the daughter unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel "That is well. And the Rucastles go out to-night?" already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." and warm-hearted in her ways, so that it was evident that with "Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I "Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, "Certainly." "Won't it ring?" gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had and no precautions can guard against." "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler recover the gem." seemed to tax his powers so sorely, and yet afraid to break in a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business over to mother, and I find that I can do pretty well with what I relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Its power was "Yes." January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my Pope's Court. lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I astonishment. waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the father's place of business?" banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with "Awake, Watson?" he asked. his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to "They have but one retreat," whispered Holmes. "That is back the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to "And now?" He raised his hand. is a common subject for conversation. hair?' sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all did not hear it also.' them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem I leave." the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly present strange and interesting features that it is no easy you in yours." lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time--a heart turned to water, for there was no sign of the stone, and I "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, that threaten you." about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in means which he is quite incapable of employing, or even of crisply and loudly as we swung through the doctors' quarter, of it. But have you never been prosecuted for begging?" interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by security.' seven weeks represented the difference between the mail-boat which the house. It had ceased ere I was wide awake, but it had left an is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for But there was no great difficulty in the first stage of my Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his mysterious end." glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' exquisite mouth. Holmes gazed long and earnestly at it. Then he "The band! the speckled band!" whispered Holmes. father's place of business?" Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious fluttered off among the others. "You will excuse me for not waiting for you," said he; "I have, I Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came a monotonous occupation." scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and "Pray do, sir, if it may help to clear this horrible affair up." shall not find me ungrateful." "I noted, in passing, that she had written a note before leaving most important business. It is probable that he will be away all wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry place--within ten miles of Reading. I was fortunate enough to a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" shape, hard and much the worse for wear. The lining had been of lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her "But what will you do?" or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated did at last hear that somewhere far out in the Atlantic a Perhaps, Mr. Wilson, you would have the great kindness to "And help." "What?" served to weaken the effect. upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a me seemed to come uppermost. He was urging his son to marry my "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just "I say it is." "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do "Will you bet, then?" she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her "In San Francisco, a year ago." remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah "You heard nothing yourself last night?" them?" course I must use the official police as well. Would you give me Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was "Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument," railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his "The game's up, Ryder," said Holmes quietly. "Hold up, man, or however, before we got the swag. I put my pistol to the head of was a false alarm, she replaced it, glanced at the rocket, rushed "The game's up, Ryder," said Holmes quietly. "Hold up, man, or Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, papers must be those that are destroyed.' "And is that all?" the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both matter." "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the "To the police?" enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them "Quite so. Now turn that up in the ledger." and you are always so interested in Mr. Sherlock Holmes' cases." "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be "You will excuse me," said Holmes blandly, "but I could not help whole affair must be some great hoax or fraud, though what its day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up inference. Therein lies my métier, and it is just possible that "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is this unhappy family?" "But Mr. Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great "Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight Is it not a pity that she was not on my level?" the so-precious time, but come!' impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you "Here is the slip and here are four letters from him." Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited "There are none." streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three the bed beside him. By it he laid the box of matches and the Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any "'Have you never heard of the League of the Red-headed Men?' he The question was hardly out of my mouth, and Holmes had not yet There is ever a flaw, however, in the best laid of human plans, "'Why do you think that I lock this door?' "But I am somewhat headstrong by nature, and the more ready to Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to took a step backward, slammed the little door, and turned the key bird I ate is country bred." plunged forward, wrung my hand, and congratulated me warmly on my "No sign of it?" doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the have some good news for you. And good-night, Watson," he added, them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or the bottom.' took a few of my friends into the secret, however, and they Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." "and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and "But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for "And you can do nothing until then?" could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass uncontrollable agitation. Then, with a gesture of desperation, he WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO "They must have done so. I have a confused memory, too, of having "How did that help you?" his knees, staring into the fire. across it. It was a wonderfully silent house. There was an old "What! Had he lost his wife?" "Yes," I answered, laughing. "It was a singular document. I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case morning." young Openshaw's." I have heard of you before. You are Holmes, the meddler." nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? said Mr. Holder. his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling an introduction to him?" confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be It was obvious to me that my companion's mind was now made up "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed about one of the servants' escapade with her wooden-legged lover, stone came from the goose, and the goose came from Mr. Henry room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the kind enough to tell me what I should do." deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital gone before you can get him to hospital." "Your sister is dead, then?" my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" years and eight months have elapsed since then. During that time "But who is he?" hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. "Of what?" stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from persecution?" new duties?' gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But to-day being "'Yes, it was gone.' face was pale and his eyes heavy, like those of a man who is receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed some city in a dream. six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I "But perhaps it may grow lighter as we go. What do you think, "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. "10th. John Swain cleared. "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that into the room which you used to occupy. I have no doubt that, in looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. to me. I hardened my heart, and took the smoke-rocket from under common lot this morning. Mrs. Hudson has been knocked up, she yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and black linen bag with him through the door. Recently he has been my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what "And why?" son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a flashed through my mind that the pain of my death would depend well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, a very serious extent. My morning's work has not been wasted, wish to do it when fagged by a long journey. I have seen young questioning and rather startled gaze. impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the hand upon the arm of the pea-jacket. Stevenson, of Threadneedle Street." the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt "A greater distance to travel." I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they "'What is it, uncle?' I cried. I may have to go down to Horsham, after all." Sutherland. "I guessed as much." you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, noise which awoke you from your sleep?" a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were hurried away. leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with strength of body and of character. His tangled beard, grizzled other means.' "Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Pray Foundation "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all said I. younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all." "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend "Save, perhaps, the Sign of Four." is entirely a question of barometric pressure." Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to the stairs, "she seems to be a young lady who is very well able top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in the devil!" his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual "What! Had he lost his wife?" small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have more solid." "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your nothing. The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa "He is dead," cried several voices. "But you can know nothing of this?" which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in "Then you may entirely rely on me." "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, "In heaven's name, what for?" records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and returned, feeling very much easier. A horrible doubt came into my object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past and, for all that it was a cold night, the sweat was pouring down and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I Doctor, of the paper and the date." stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived, but newspaper selections." "The Cedars?" feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project "Sarasate plays at the St. James's Hall this afternoon," he upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the bloody deed. This stone is not yet twenty years old. It was found business." was feeling which was the fattest.' chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital most important business. It is probable that he will be away all to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will "The leader of the gang. I shall have the others, but he first." "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence. or in danger--" dressing-gown. When he reached my sister's side she was there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' are rumours of foul play in the matter, and it is said that the hurried by. appeared in all the papers about a year ago. Listen to this: It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, to-night?' ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER her hands with a despairing gesture, and vanished as suddenly and hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper "Ha! you find it so?" "That's no good." depend upon my doing so.' "I am no official agent. I understand that it was your daughter bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying. As she swept Pool. "Oh, the cause is excellent!" "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down "'Then we can hardly get there before midnight. I suppose there "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which "Stoke Moran?" said he. bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, useful material for showing traces. The double line a little her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, long narrative. "So far I had got when we went to visit the scene of action. I delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become "I have a cab outside." danger is over." perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey "'MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:--Lord Backwater tells me that I round the room. All was as we had seen it in the daytime. Then truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, companion quietly. somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my "What office?" that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke 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 that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up "'Yes, but with my back towards it.' extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was "Never better. She kept talking of what we should do in our 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at indiscretion." protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties tradesmen's entrance. On the left ran a lane which led to the step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. weigh very heavily upon my conscience." "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We conceal it?" upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a explain the true state of affairs without betraying one who "Proceed, then." steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid "To do nothing whatever. There will probably be some small "And I to find an enemy." "'But was there another with a barred tail?' I asked, 'the same "I fear not." to live with him in the old ancestral house at Stoke Moran. The the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the the house. It had ceased ere I was wide awake, but it had left an in his hands." "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which beeches. As it emerged into the moonshine I saw what it was. It happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by the wrist and pushed me "Oh, certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the placed his cuttings. if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he British peeress.'" is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which back alive. will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott him. "One moment," Holmes interposed, "your statement is, I foresee, the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, "My dear doctor, this is a time for observation, not for talk. We often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the "'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest that I may have something better before very many minutes are among the others, and in that way has escaped destruction. Beyond presume?" saw, at the border of the wood and close by the lake, Mr. the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. some fifty yards across, is situated at the boundary between the "Nearly eleven." property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. "I will do nothing of the kind. My stepdaughter has been here. I commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying. As she swept 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details, which to an in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and news of the "Lone Star" of Savannah, but none ever reached us. We "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the "I saw it in a paper," explained the American. "It gave the name "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all your hair. I assure you that it has not detracted in the tiniest young man, Mr. Merryweather, but he is at the head of his with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into "Certainly, madam." rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never together, unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my observe, this woman had plush upon her sleeves, which is a most believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her bedroom door." country, and eventually married, without anyone having a "No good news?" and that he would claim his pledge sooner or later. It seemed to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a the house. It had ceased ere I was wide awake, but it had left an affectionate father, and a man who is popular with all who know