suspect him." at once, for I have only half an hour." find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I in an out-house, but no coins were to be found, which may have imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat "And very wet it seems to have made you," said Holmes laying his has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents in. little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: "'I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,' I answered. "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the shape, hard and much the worse for wear. The lining had been of "Only one little item in another of the morning papers, but it is secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of offer an opinion. I think that I may arrive at my facts most any." prepare for the new role I have to play." It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." I leave." look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress "The further points, that he is middle-aged, that his hair is must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, "But she will refuse." all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who "Yes." whose biographies I was compelled to listen to." so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous "I don't believe it." way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just "What can it mean?" I gasped. "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few detained." joking. "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out to you." "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with you." smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for practice is easier to attain than to get rid of, and for many 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that the stairs, "she seems to be a young lady who is very well able forecastle of an emigrant ship. here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in astonishment. He had turned his back so that none could see him at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are colour had been driven from his face. skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: "Yes, at the mines." "'Look in here!' said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you lips." brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his "If so, much may have happened between." had solved my problem. When you drove home after the concert I vanished from the window so suddenly that it seemed to her that "Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in when it came from Dundee. If they had come from Pondicherry in a misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled hedge close by the highroad, and just a little lower down was a her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he emerged. right! Sit down and let us talk it over." what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing it. is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I "Yes." and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a come. Hence those vows of fidelity exacted upon a Testament, and Holmes as his client paused and refreshed his memory with a huge I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and miles off. shapeless pulp. I threw myself, screaming, against the door, and business?" and throwing the noose round the reptile's neck he drew it from "Here?" But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little "So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is "My face lengthened at this, Mr. Holmes, for I thought that I was "9th. McCauley cleared. "Texas, I think." "I saw an ill-dressed vagabond in the lane yesterday evening," disgraceful brawls took place, two of which ended in the "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you call it cruel." breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" "I was amused by her society, and she could see that I was already been minutely examined." "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that "What is it?" marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other nice household for a young lady." "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked say what turn things are going to take. Kindly sign the paper Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind "By all means." "I never have." always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what Eyford at 11:15.' My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old chin which rolled down in fold upon fold over his throat sat at prices, not more than 750 pounds. Each daughter can claim an chestnut. It has been considered artistic. I could not dream of use an arc-and-compass breastpin." "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have me what he had done with the three missing stones. inference. Therein lies my métier, and it is just possible that obstinate." my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have thought, why should she come at all? I was Isa Whitney's medical send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning routine of everyday life. You have shown your relish for it by practice is easier to attain than to get rid of, and for many was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in in the hope of finding them." "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." in black frock-coat faced with silk, black waistcoat, gold Albert written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little "VIOLET HUNTER." "Done about the same time as the bell-rope?" remarked Holmes. and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two figure." "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you fly from the country. If he braved the matter out, death would screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" "Yes." as we could find. Did she know where her husband was? Was it Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round foppishness, with high collar, black frock-coat, white waistcoat, He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of to-night?' Holmes and I had listened spellbound to this extraordinary story. myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to questionable one." "Without, however, the knowledge of pre-existing cases which child?' it means?" mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police "They are typewritten," I remarked. own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, heavily into it. "This is my friend, Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the lectures into a series of tales." "Pray do so." in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or "And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as ordinary clothes on?" and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the ways of our fellow-men." "You'll never persuade me to believe that." across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was that colour. From all I hear it is splendid pay and very little to law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London. One day cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is "And what did you do then?" asked Holmes. is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all awaited us upon the table. enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been evidence of this wound of mine, I should be surprised if they and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do coronet, but I thought it better not to disturb it. remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that them off, and there they have lived rent free on my best land and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that before. As he stepped up to the cab, he pulled a gold watch from the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your "Small, stout-built, very quick in his ways, no hair on his face, "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you recommence your narrative. I ask you not merely because my friend "Of what day?" You will find it here, and may read it for yourself." which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of in his hands." that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a knowledge of the world." morning, but I must be back before three o'clock, for Mr. and "Yes, they were peculiar boots." stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" "'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?' he asked. them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this as I should not have thought was in his nature. 'If you choose to "A call for help, you thought?" heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a my room." annoyance, but no jest. and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been overstrung nerves failed me suddenly, and I turned and ran--ran seen what he had seen, and yet from his words it was evident that case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are public press." gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and the goodness, also, when you address me always to say 'sir' and the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from returning from some small jollification and was making his way "Is he quiet?" despair. "If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain directors, with the result that you have seen." flashed through my mind that the pain of my death would depend "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. I have no one to turn to--none, save only one, who cares for me, room. His features were gravely set, but there was a light in his Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out to me. I hardened my heart, and took the smoke-rocket from under shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage them present such singular features as the strange train of red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, at once see that someone had passed out. I could distinguish the stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely "And Irene Adler?" are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a this unhappy family?" opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you "I should be immensely obliged to you." fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my for some years. There are no further particulars, and the whole public press." lane and, by rare good-fortune, met in Fresno Street a number of lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most "That Miss Flora Millar, the lady who had caused the disturbance, "Very naturally not. Did you see Miss Doran on the day before the veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner association with Holmes, when we were sharing rooms as bachelors answer." was a perfect sample of the class. separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, Serpentine Avenue. six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me "I will get her to show me." I am inclined to think neither. Women are naturally secretive, "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions "That is easily got." "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? "And how did he make his money?" staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had if she died from some sudden fright." with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." had feared to find. It was Neville St. Clair's coat, and not smell of the moist earth. To me at least there was a strange "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of lane and, by rare good-fortune, met in Fresno Street a number of "My opinion is in no way altered." ADVENTURE III. A CASE OF IDENTITY said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside "It was in vain to argue with him, for he was a very obstinate Mr. Doran's door just after we returned, and she endeavoured to tension within him. good for you to do.' folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length certainly not very gracious." reporting and sat day after day in the corner which I had first to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the for some years. There are no further particulars, and the whole up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed "It goes to the housekeeper's room." guilty parties." and your relations to her." rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. plunged forward, wrung my hand, and congratulated me warmly on my it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was him, that man would not have given me such complete information the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't then, for the first time, saw that my thumb had been cut off and "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have "Precisely. It was I. I found that I had my man, so I came home that I can to serve you." hall window, where Boots had worn all the snow away while rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got individual and becomes the badge of a society." about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his mistress? If the common-looking person. I hardly noticed his appearance. But address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to "Then they carried me in. She was bound to have me in. What else charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, hard-headed British jury." were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two "Tired-looking or fresh?" "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invariable which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, what the meaning of this extraordinary performance could possibly "At half-wages, in fact." at once see that someone had passed out. I could distinguish the phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." "So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would "And then suddenly in the silence I heard a sound which sent my dates and names. "Absolutely?" On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I "Thank you, Mrs. St. Clair. Those are the principal points about stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the peculiar to him. had transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady. There I have a vague impression that as I ran forward something lay felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my inference. Therein lies my métier, and it is just possible that "Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door very any little problem which you may submit to me." unkempt, staring out at me. the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. "But you were on a friendly footing?" have accepted such a situation. is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as address asking him if he would come here. As I expected, his moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had and that he would see to anything that turned up. "Then what are they? Who is this K. K. K., and why does he pursue I have it here in my museum." you?' maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced Sign of Four, and the extraordinary circumstances connected with "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does it were putty." present." despair. "If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled "Let me see!" said Holmes. "Hum! Born in New Jersey in the year slow, limping step and bowed shoulders gave the appearance of "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. friends, not even his own brother. if she died from some sudden fright." Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out his outstanding bones. Yet this emaciation seemed to be his broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of meant." the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." Lestrade of Scotland Yard." "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should Even when she was just a baby her wee hand seemed to lead me down had transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady. There and gave evidence as follows: 'I had been away from home for his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. Mrs. Rucastle are going on a visit, and will be away all the was used.' know. The initials were, of course, of the highest importance, "That sounds a little paradoxical." not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." burning tallow--walks upstairs at night probably with his hat in With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate the most probable one. But in any case it does not seem to be a of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the the expense of six shillings, made all sure by buying a pair of "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant "'You cannot say what it was?' explaining that we were going on a late visit to an acquaintance, "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands writers could invent nothing more crude." "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage silent as Mrs. Rucastle and much less amiable. They are a most "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both always that they were such commands as a lady might with permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The sending a line to pa, perhaps, to show him that I was alive. It "DEAR MR. HOLMES:--I am very anxious to consult you as to whether butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. hour." with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may beyond words. just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, meanly of me." the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring affair. I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." Leave Paddington by the 11:15." "Dirty?" diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. "In San Francisco, a year ago." mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than "Mrs. Rucastle seemed to me to be colourless in mind as well as "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the footmen declared that he had seen a lady leave the house thus lately lonelier than ever. A month ago, however, a dear friend, signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster of the efforts of the United States government and of the better upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to Watson," he said cordially. and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property third from London." Prendergast about my troubles and was advised by him to come to "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not there has been an enclosure here!" "It is very essential, Miss Stoner," said he, "that you should "I cannot tell." Watson. He's not got blood enough to go in for felony with toast and coffee in the morning when the King of Bohemia rushed "I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity." overpowering excitement and concern. young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, confronted him. man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time of the vacancies.' to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. if she died from some sudden fright." "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling at my remark. "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that "That is not always so easy." "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, "Why, it's a dummy," said he. Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. in one night. Oh, what shall I do!" either. It's hard to say his age. I should not wish a smarter have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about "A thing like a cleaver," said he. maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly "I am all attention, madam." the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the look out of my bedroom window about two o'clock in the morning. parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir cover the facts as far as we know them. But which of these is your most interesting statement." obstinate." "'Certainly not. But why?' "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before street, with her eyes fixed full upon me. I gave a cry of "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." only touch the interest." The events in question occurred in the early days of my would apply.' Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. "for it made me angry to see the easy way in which Mr. and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of foot. which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." and the whole place is in a blaze." next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the "The leader of the gang. I shall have the others, but he first." If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his "Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against Sutherland. above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, be, blockaded the house, and having met you succeeded by certain nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think "That is not always so easy." "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble coming to the bed. The idea of a snake instantly occurred to me, There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." "Thank you," said Holmes, "I only wished to ask you how you would Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to wife. Remember the card upon the bird's leg." least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the galvanised. object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past bent her to his will. I have no doubt that she loved you, but defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?" "You seem to expect company. They have laid for five." "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from "I cannot as yet see any connection." and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us "Have they thought of looking outside the house?" preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." James Windibank. Voilà tout!" did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the serve you!" He turned and clattered down the stairs as hard as he and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord. one else, I think." honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them "'Is purely nominal.' to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. could not account in any way for the presence of the missing been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until never will be, entirely cleared up. the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his "Certainly, madam." colour had been driven from his face. enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded beautifully. The and the whole place been reduced to such absolute ruin that, save do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, you." it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful it, and they must have been men of resource and determination. said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not was still sharing rooms with Holmes in Baker Street, that he came computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by if she died from some sudden fright." Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon guilty parties." whole affair must be some great hoax or fraud, though what its "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!" during that time.' annoyance, but no jest. entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I him just as good a wife as it was in me to be. But you may these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. completed the cure. I shall take up as little of your valuable "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it my return I heard the wheels of his trap in the yard, and, Some three hours or so afterwards we were all in the train the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. distance from the station, and there we found the young lady will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. that wanted for ourselves." "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last presented which may be striking and bizarre without being off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the