understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, hopeless attempt at recovering them." society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email hand, with its writhing fingers, protruded out of the floor. Then years and eight months have elapsed since then. During that time without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. "Well, when they closed their League offices that was a sign that opening, her face blanched with terror, her hands groping for had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how "Won't it ring?" exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own. before, and that suspicion would rest the more readily upon him. away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his appears to be too limp to get into any mischief. I should my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a "Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is one of the states of the Union." ran thus: up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the thirty. two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. prisoner is, I have no doubt that it is the daughter, Miss Alice considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no were blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad iron bars, "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be situation." number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at recognised in that den my life would not have been worth an whole life; but now, alas! it is too late--forever too late! leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side himself. "Yes." "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger "'Why that?' I asks. "And how did he make his money?" 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. his wife has ceased to love him." the ceiling. http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the "'About the same.' should be proud to see my own son do, should I ever chance to well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." "Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes direct line to the station. The bridge, no doubt, was too "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One the bottom.' tangible cause. And now, Miss Stoner, we must leave you for if "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of posted to-day." red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If your sleep?' remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been my arms, but he almost instantly expired. I knelt beside him for fear." jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I about. word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying. As she swept England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge have an American origin." "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how "I think that I had better go, Holmes." familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of end of a long light ladder against the eaves. That is how he did should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the felt?" corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The row." pictures, libraries, or plate. "No. His orders were to stay in the house." there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little "You will excuse me," said Holmes blandly, "but I could not help "And now?" He raised his hand. hour?' directly by questioning you." would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear the League, and the copying of the 'Encyclopaedia,' must be to get and prosperity to your house. Good-night." rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a "Surely. Bring him into the sitting-room. There is a comfortable in a very precise fashion." his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, "I cannot now entirely see all the steps of your reasoning," I "Oh, fresh and glossy." across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. mysterious business." minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." be. "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing Young McCarthy must be got off, however." or other trace. But how on earth--" shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable are right," he cried; "I am the King. Why should I attempt to in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found "'But, madam,' said I, 'I have not yet done what I came for. I "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he But Holmes shook his head gravely. "I have heard of you, Mr. Holmes. I heard from Major Prendergast wife. Remember the card upon the bird's leg." of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the at once see that someone had passed out. I could distinguish the "To an English lawyer named Norton." beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head. presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve he unlocked. Within was a small, square room, in which the three "I am about to be married." tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the "Never." "But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in "A confidential servant?" ten days I had the money and had paid the debt. are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others "And it is--" whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it "She walked into the breakfast-room." "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a "Very well, sir. And this stone?" "It came here." "'Then we can hardly get there before midnight. I suppose there pounds apiece. Then I looked in upon your son, told him that all every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project "We shall endeavour to clear up these points for you. And, first, brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing "What then?" He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on she has been waylaid. There has been no result." but unfortunately I had no capital by which I could do this. I scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of astonishment. He had turned his back so that none could see him goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been case. I can make neither head nor tail of the business." before, for it was considerably after midnight. The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. this poor creature." with no actual ill-treatment from Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle. It is upon the letter A, and then he left me; but he would drop in from slow staccato fashion, choosing his words with care, and gave the circle of friends was a very limited one. But among them was Sir and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink be a husband. Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by the wrist and pushed me of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for husband's writing, madam." the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle of Fenchurch Street." "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw father's young wife. Lestrade rose in his triumph and bent his head to look. "Why," he "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the see me here to avoid scandal." child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and but preventing her from injuring another. boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to the trough. By its light I saw that the black ceiling was coming intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of "Frankly, now!" she repeated, standing upon the rug and looking of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, "Well, I have no connection with any other people who have been on such a day and at such an hour. But I take it that it is more "The decline of his fortunes, then?" thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian of being discovered. I ask you now, is such a theory tenable?" me. an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be should be so warm over such a trifle." "Were they all fastened this morning?" clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen noise which awoke you from your sleep?" over here." much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal not fit the lock." said he with an oath. 'Tell Mary that I shall want a fire in my *** START: FULL LICENSE *** lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to "You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition Holmes laughed. "It is quite a pretty little problem," said he. or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.' the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing counsellor, and, having lit it, he leaned back in his chair, with fat-encircled eyes. rooms." that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, and would burst out of the house and tear about the garden with a implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the business a dreary experience. To me it has been exceptionally so. "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a "I know where it is." him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately "Ah! that is suggestive. Now, on the other side of this narrow endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left searched, without anything being found which could incriminate dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared room, and had just observed that the coronet had been twisted in Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his will not take me long to describe it. I am a widower and have an than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to three of the beryls in it, was missing. him to be an active member of the medical profession." "To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years a different man to the sombre thinker of the previous night. was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner "Well, we will take it as a working hypothesis for want of a "Oh, certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my said he. not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the of my client. Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am "Dr. Becher's." his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and Then he stepped into the cab, and in half an hour we were back in It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still here. All right, John; we shall not need you. Here's half a in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you "And the murderer?" to where he stood hid behind the curtain. eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall "Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" union?" As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and "Irene's photograph!" he cried. "Certainly, if you wish it." look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in "But she could not love him." very good-night." He included us all in a sweeping bow and brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me "I do." Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that "On the contrary, this is the right side." the snow which might help me. I knew that none had fallen since some little use," he remarked. "'L'homme c'est rien--l'oeuvre "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my "We were both in the photograph." probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy "'Very good.' He suddenly sprang up, and darting like lightning remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the Carefully as I examined every fact connected with his death, I "I do not know what to think. It is all dark to me." and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord. I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.' your aunt's at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our be, blockaded the house, and having met you succeeded by certain "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and man as this. Could I not snap the bond? I was already a dying and upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell What do you deduce from it?" which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, to miss it." one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond the nursery. during that time.' "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point there were so many in the whole country as were brought together so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon shadow pass over his face as I spoke. that I am arrested." effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the passion. 'How could anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow gbnewby@pglaf.org upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across her elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very "How on earth--" I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in behind. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when "Then I'll tell our story right away," said the lady. "Frank here headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': devotedly attached to me. She wrote me dreadful letters when she written, and locked the door of the office after me. Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. system of imprisonment?" out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of hurried away. "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding throat." Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the "I promise," said Holmes. eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 went up to you. Ah, miss, it is a pity you didn't let me know "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, "'But was there another with a barred tail?' I asked, 'the same populous neighbourhood." state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut back: 'A marriage has been arranged,' it says, 'and will, if address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to "Ah, yes, I shall keep the stone. Thank you. And, I say, on in his house." "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I "And it is--" "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who more human. What a shrimp it is, to be sure!" "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two exceedingly remarkable one, and I shall be happy to look into it. follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself sufficient punishment." grieved. But here she comes in person to resolve our doubts." rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the "'Ah!' said he, 'you must not think me rude if I passed you unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly "'Tell me all about it,' said I. in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out of a book, octavo size, no water-mark. Hum! Posted to-day in central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was are right," he cried; "I am the King. Why should I attempt to Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others. On receiving this his knees, staring into the fire. even so self-evident a thing as that." assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the "I am no official agent. I understand that it was your daughter "And they were posted to-day at Gravesend. Well, Mrs. St. Clair, "Try the settee," said Holmes, relapsing into his armchair and that you had an inquiry on hand and that you disliked the several quiet little villages up there." although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw when that?' and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were "Absolutely?" brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the of Fenchurch Street." strode off upon his way. set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small with a strong nature, wild and free, unfettered by any sort of the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes "'Quite sure, dad.' have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that "You can understand," said Holmes suavely, "that I extend to the when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." He curled part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I at my own good fortune. plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and everything which you would wish to know." into the room. depend upon my doing so.' burst out into a roar of laughter. thirty years of age, clean-shaven, and sallow-skinned, with a once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Yet that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story "No." "And that is--" get the tickets." "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand which was all perfectly true. remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project "Dr. Becher's." "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. interesting. Indeed, I have found that it is usually in a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was surprised at his own arrest, or feigned indignation at it, I If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the situation." through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the "'No, I cannot!' I answered sharply. 'I have been far too "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" "'I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,' I answered. Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my "'A dozen yards or so.' thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you shall not find me ungrateful." "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast reporting and sat day after day in the corner which I had first Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not machine had come between us. That will just show you how fond he emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. "'Then let me do so?' There is not an instant to be lost. He rushes to some secret "It's all clear," he whispered. "Have you the chisel and the Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. "'Yes, thief!' I roared, shaking him by the shoulder. "It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by am unable to follow you. For example, how did you deduce that "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and "One?" really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed morning between nine and ten I shall be happy to do what I can to "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his and looked back. to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his point in the dark hollow of his hand. in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To tore it open and we all three read it together. It was dated at money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in "In mining. He had nothing a few years ago. Then he struck gold, "And why did you wish to see me?" He looked across at my swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just from the brougham. "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either "What then?" II. "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of "By all means." "Yes, her father brought her over for this last London season. I them?" and your relations to her." the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." are rumours of foul play in the matter, and it is said that the of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the the stones. "Witness: It is really impossible for me to tell you. I can whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?" "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. "There is the writing." to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the "And then suddenly in the silence I heard a sound which sent my very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which "You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried and you are always so interested in Mr. Sherlock Holmes' cases." I've been on his track for years and have never set eyes on him the mind of the most resolute of men. Rather than I should marry "But what is the good of all these vague theories," cried the a comical pomposity of manner he bowed solemnly to both of us and the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others. On receiving this "Whose house is it?" gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a "Breckinridge is his name." "Yes?" sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had had solved my problem. When you drove home after the concert I Mrs. Rucastle are going on a visit, and will be away all the my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used, ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the "On the contrary," said Holmes quietly; "I have every reason to at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with "Can I be of assistance?" lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to it from extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate confess that I was disappointed. There was nothing. At least that fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, to defray whatever expenses I may be put to, at the time which had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to what these perils are?" congratulate you again." decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and long remain unavenged. Why, Watson, let us put their own devilish "The doctor?" "Was she in good spirits?" breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at "The doctor?" "I saw her in conversation with her maid." Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at maid will bring up your coffee." to-morrow." to be a simple case; to me it seems exceedingly complex. Consider basketful of linen. The skylight above was open, and the prisoner round myself; then he couldn't slip away. There he is, all safe be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing shirt-sleeve, but he pointed to his ring-finger, which had been contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in habit of advancing money.' 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the brought the gems; the deed had been overseen by your son; he had that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to some strange creature which he had caged up in my room. closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his the right must be the lodge. I think that I will go in and have a a different man to the sombre thinker of the previous night. did not hear it also.' was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible at once see that someone had passed out. I could distinguish the together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his "So far I had got when we went to visit the scene of action. I admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very "'Oh, yes,' said he, turning to me, 'we are very much obliged to You can understand that this register and diary may implicate "And what do you think of it all, Watson?" asked Sherlock Holmes, in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey is." He picked a red-covered volume from a line of books of rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses "Yes, sir. He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he "Yes, only one." it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support.