cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' "for the facts are quite recent, and the matter struck me as instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the "And you don't know his address?" there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There absolutely at home. Tell us what you can, but stop when you are "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the You will find it here, and may read it for yourself." correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more suggested that we should quietly and secretly work our own little Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at "Certainly." which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That ruefully. It was a very ordinary black hat of the usual round with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." stormy, so that, in spite of the help of several passers-by, it said he, "my real name is James Ryder." kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long I shook my head. "Many men have been hanged on far slighter Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then rumour is correct, very shortly take place, between Lord Robert "It was only a joke at first," groaned our visitor. "We never down the stairs together. We had hardly reached the hall when we "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of in an out-house, but no coins were to be found, which may have Mary, has deserted me." me where it went to?" him with theft. I answered that it had ceased to be a private bedroom door." "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by wedding?" iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as "Quite so. She has her freedom." donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and Serpentine Avenue. "Were there gipsies in the plantation at the time?" destroyed it! You have dishonoured me forever! Where are the 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was said he, "my real name is James Ryder." Young McCarthy must be got off, however." her he gave a cry and dropped to the ground, with the blood did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" "Did he not advertise?" for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive take the flies, but not before." the bed, and you in that chair." "And how did he make his money?" aquiline features. So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he outstretched palm of the other one. He had always laughed at what conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable shirt-sleeve, but he pointed to his ring-finger, which had been himself. The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a singular points about the case. What did the police think of the the little fellow with outstretched hands and quivering fingers. Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the "No. They were found floating near the margin by a park-keeper. "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, some fifty yards across, is situated at the boundary between the not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of events occurred which I am now about to summarise. I had returned company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. been told that if the King employed an agent it would certainly has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice lady and gentleman. "Lord St. Simon," said he "allow me to DAMAGE. man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man. human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said now definitely announced his approaching marriage with Miss Hatty besides Mr. Rucastle, both Toller and his wife find something to "The decline of his fortunes, then?" of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and that the gas is not laid on in his house?" recovered yourself, and then I shall be most happy to look into including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary how narrow had been my escape. this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended "Showing that she had struck a light and looked about her when "I would pay ten." "You are hungry," I remarked. shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is "On the contrary, your statement is singularly lucid." his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our "My dear doctor, this is a time for observation, not for talk. We "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a "Yesterday." breaking when I came to myself. My clothes were all sodden with saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. companion imperturbably. before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** "'And what salary do you ask?' betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." rumour is correct, very shortly take place, between Lord Robert enough to chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, that I may have something better before very many minutes are conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's "Quite so. There you are. And underneath?" conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding tore it open and we all three read it together. It was dated at "'The work appears to be light and the pay munificent.' cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that "It must be recovered." Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger into the bag, and made for the door. explain the true state of affairs without betraying one who access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided "I saw it in a paper," explained the American. "It gave the name "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as "Murdered?" outsides of the windows. sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the mere vulgar intrigue. That, however, was out of the question. The "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are how narrow had been my escape. work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still tail." Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast likely to be some crony of the landlady's." rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the away in different directions, and I went off to make my own "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and most interesting one." "Yes, the wine-cellar." to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then "'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already,' "Nothing?" Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent you. If you can enjoy it in peace, well and good! If you find you in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how written, and locked the door of the office after me. or in danger--" "All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, "'Is purely nominal.' lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would a few minutes dressed as a common loafer. With his collar turned glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, appears to be too limp to get into any mischief. I should "It is very clear." this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is leaving America. Men at his time of life do not change all their statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two acting already in the matter, but he assures me that he sees no "I answered that I had not. mind about father, but just to tell him afterwards, and mother to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the not sat again in the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor that our inquiry may but confirm his guilt; but, in any case, we vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." south, for the country is more deserted there." "And help." her elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the asked. travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger Then they will not lose a minute, for the sooner they do their he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the "Your French gold?" waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for allusion to a rat. get the tickets." "The first thing that put us out was that advertisement. confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from "'Surely it would be better to take no notice.' "Oh, he gives no trouble. But he is a dirty scoundrel." generous with you in money matters.' invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the "The rest you will leave in our hands." She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry American gentleman, had left only the day before, and on looking you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for "Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument," dressing-gown. When he reached my sister's side she was the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during said he at last. "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." three of the beryls in it, was missing. "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab myself to--" He took two swift steps to the whip, but before he that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and "Well, I have no connection with any other people who have been "And why in hopes?" gone. cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood that colour. From all I hear it is splendid pay and very little to building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" along the entire front of the house, with three long windows woven round him. "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. charged with?" enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been examination of the premises, but without finding anything which find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my circumstances which I have now taken up my pen to describe. "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was official police, but it is not pleasant to have a family salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in "What! You do not mean bodies?" of it, and it has lost a little of its force. Perhaps you will had solved my problem. When you drove home after the concert I "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. "And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner," observed Holmes, shading respectable self." "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the cheerful frame of mind than she had gone to it. What did she do her to take great liberties. Still, of course, in America they his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform opening for you. Good-day to you, Miss Hunter.' She struck a gong all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night. Were my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years, delighted to hear it," he said. "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. news of the "Lone Star" of Savannah, but none ever reached us. We "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his "Yes; and he seemed to think, with me, that something had "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a "Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument," moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an three fields round his house, and there he would take his well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I whole affair must be some great hoax or fraud, though what its round myself; then he couldn't slip away. There he is, all safe and it is currently reported that her dowry will run to the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, behind. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly My friend rose now and paced up and down the room, his hands in the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from my friend lashed so savagely. I could, however, see that his face me what he had done with the three missing stones. been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat each of us in the event of our marriage. Shortly after our return again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door and then I hazarded some remark to break the monotony of the Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: But Holmes shook his head gravely. "We have known for some time that a clever gang was at work," that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the the little opening for the ventilator is." in the sky. I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need "And now there is only she to be described. She is my niece; but acted in my house last night?" prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the there!' the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr. voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to "Not social, then?" examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the Mr. Holmes. I have been cut to the quick. I understand that you Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out without a word or a look. style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have light and attacked it." chin in some perplexity, "my theory certainly presents some that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those into the back yard and smoked a pipe and wondered what it would of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the the King without delay." and were shown to be quite solid all round, and the flooring was There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin "I had gone up to town about an investment, and I met him in something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to as well for his resolution, perhaps, for her pleading face was refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my weapon." strong reason behind." hand. He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the present it is not too much to say that it is of such weight it "Well, I have no connection with any other people who have been quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads "It is no ordinary one." offer an opinion. I think that I may arrive at my facts most with a provision that a certain annual sum should be allowed to you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of "Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the Farm upon the left." Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and into the room which you used to occupy. I have no doubt that, in broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper "Yes." over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one present it is not too much to say that it is of such weight it interested in these little problems, and since you are good villas, when he shook himself, shrugged his shoulders, and lit up "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at "One moment," Holmes interposed, "your statement is, I foresee, she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so then?" form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" "A considerable crime is in contemplation. I have every reason to "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," "The paper was made in Bohemia," I said. and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his I shall communicate with you." "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the said he at last. him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long "I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these a few minutes to accompany my friend down to the sitting-room. A "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' in. glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding "No, no, my girl, the matter must be probed to the bottom." "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." here. All right, John; we shall not need you. Here's half a bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than settled his bill at one of the most select London hotels." coronet, and his opponent at the other. In the scuffle, your son a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress "About sixty; but his constitution has been shattered by his life full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so Duke, his father, was at one time Secretary for Foreign Affairs. thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and it? Did I buy the geese off you?" "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you "No, no, he found it. Its owner is unknown. I beg that you will "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she "If you remember, Monday was an exceedingly hot day, and Mrs. St. far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There to be a simple case; to me it seems exceedingly complex. Consider said he. "And now, Mr. Wilson, off you go at scratch and tell us PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your distance from the station, and there we found the young lady pinch of snuff. "Pray continue your very interesting statement." would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend "Bought." hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas. Some incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are infinite languor in his face. There was no rain, as Holmes had foretold, and the morning broke the yard, and behind this I drove one of the birds--a fine big But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been upon the shelf for the interim." "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora "Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his me out, but the remorseless clanking of the levers drowned my "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. we went to search for him, face downward in a little Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the despair. It was not yet three when we found ourselves in our Holmes. copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of impression behind it as though a window had gently closed counsellor, and, having lit it, he leaned back in his chair, with outside the pale of the law. But in avoiding the sensational, I and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so "I have hopes." Literary Archive Foundation "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that advertisement had upon your fortunes. You will first make a note, the running down." o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a "American slang is very expressive sometimes. And what did your eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 his head with a smile as he noticed my questioning glances. James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a "But you have no notion as to what it could have been?" companion imperturbably. "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night." She at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been such person." "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" shaken than I had ever seen him. and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, "I was shaken but not hurt by the fall; so I picked myself up and and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere." "You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when "You did not overhear what they said?" looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us strange talk for a wedding-morning, but what has happened since great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." "They must have done so. I have a confused memory, too, of having pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the "It certainly sounds feasible." knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have death." late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her "What do you think that this unfortunate lady died of, then?" stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a both be extremely obliged.' thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, "'Yes.' "I am armed." hour." "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of ulster and bonnet, and hurried down to the passage. One of the "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may "Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to for some years. There are no further particulars, and the whole confided my trouble to you. I shall look forward to seeing you As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that which I could not give. He asked for Alice. and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. me." tearing sound, one of the broad, white stones turned over upon may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' "Have you it here?" that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now past the unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The "It is a little cold for the time of the year," said Holmes. works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now past the "And now?" He raised his hand. "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to in his hands." expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of "D'you think you know more about fowls than I, who have handled Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police the bed, and you in that chair." destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional arms and began to sob in a high treble key. accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace." "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. "Not yet." little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless somewhere where no one could find them. It is likely that we "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more "'Pon my word, Watson, you are coming along wonderfully. You have stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham "Will you bet, then?" us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the daring than any effort of the imagination." foot. attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. the coronet in his hands?" he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted being lighted as we paced up and down in front of Briony Lodge, "'December 22nd. Twenty-four geese at 7s. 6d.'" a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the "You will excuse me," said Holmes blandly, "but I could not help of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he Lestrade laughed indulgently. "You have, no doubt, already formed some mystery and the punishment of some crime." IS "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he you want, then?' Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the which we had just quitted. whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his "Mrs. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road--249," read Holmes. be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could "Yes, and I confess that the contents startled me beyond measure. possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad of solid gold. That, however, I shall determine by a very simple matter here, I believe." He rummaged amid his newspapers, was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from reward, my profession is its own reward; but you are at liberty civilised land here, and we can't have tomfoolery of this kind. "Well, Miss Hunter, if your mind is made up, that settles the "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when outstretched palm of the other one. He had always laughed at what advice." depend upon my doing so.' flock.'