gbnewby@pglaf.org may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me and do you conceal yourselves behind those. Then, when I flash a thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from "What on earth can be the matter with him?" I asked. "He is work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. time." with coppers. Only one man knew my secret. He was the keeper of a from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss trifles." the cushioned seat. "Both you and the coroner have been at some "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian in my cases. Whom have I the honour to address?" "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, the station." I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, "'She came in just now by the back door. I have no doubt that she Where does the thing come from?' in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the overhearing the questions which you put to the salesman just now. the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in "Well?" extraordinary contortions. active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." wanted for ourselves." "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing "Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is "That is the letter which I have just received, Mr. Holmes, and own family. the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. might find a doctor, a worthy fellow very kindly escorted me Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the room. His features were gravely set, but there was a light in his sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the for over twenty years proof against the little god's arrows, has bearing upon the case." they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant "I thank you," said the young man, rising and pulling on his "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last "Stoke Moran?" said he. handwriting was so familiar to her that she would recognise even points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained behind me. and have this put in the evening papers." "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of "'The sundial in the garden. There is no other,' said I; 'but the the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over troubles have been weighing upon his mind. in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning exposure. He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies, envelope upon the table and wondering lazily who my friend's "From his hat?" was forced to go back to fetch the cloak which I had dropped in believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, Where were we going, and what were we to do? I had the hint from A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way hardly wander." "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. there in twenty minutes." away into the river." reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and for four or five miles through the lovely Surrey lanes. It was a "You have really got it!" he cried, grasping Sherlock Holmes by bent her to his will. I have no doubt that she loved you, but fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager. As I passed however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and records." "You horrify me." were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with use an arc-and-compass breastpin." "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of my secret was safe in his possession. bonnet, and went out." front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so companion quietly. Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" "Oh, I have heard of that fellow," answered my visitor, "and I "And why?" dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that Gutenberg-tm License. should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. "That sounds a little paradoxical." to change my dress. Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. "I think that it is very probable." better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous. conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If upon the sideboard." "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the "Do you go out much in society?" going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, "'What then?' I asked. than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at "Have they thought of looking outside the house?" If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the "But you would not advise me to refuse?" began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few "I shall most certainly do so." three of the beryls in it, was missing. "Oh, indeed! Then you think that the Serpentine plays no part in moment from his face. I have never denied him a wish. Perhaps it "By no means." which lay upon the table and tore the lid from it. Out there fell Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of "What will you say?" pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped the Friday. Was it to be in church?" "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a http://www.gutenberg.net to surprise her." sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight delighted to hear it," he said. repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to "Entirely." week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could "About a month then." smell grew stronger. For half an hour I sat with straining ears. ran free in a mining camp and wandered through woods or "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how as we have been able to ascertain, amount to 88 pounds 10s., while freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it appeared in all the papers about a year ago. Listen to this: moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I since then to throw any light upon what became of him." about some of the features. If you should find yourself in doubt you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." Windigate, of the Alpha, and by him to his club, of which Mr. purpose equally well?" "There has been some villainy here," said Holmes; "this beauty which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a hands. hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. "Then that will simplify matters." We descended and started off heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross." "'Why, what did you think?' I asked. adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when horror-stricken, not knowing what was about to issue from it. By out of this horrible affair." though he's not short of thirty. Has a white splash of acid upon stately, old-fashioned manner he departed. "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they he. here." some terrible trap for her." grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his furiously. constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were conduct, and it was equally clear that the only man who really I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner guess what it was. It was my coil of hair. Holmes' face clouded over. massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was "I am glad to hear your Majesty say so." very quiet; on the third, Mrs. Rucastle came down just after "I beg pardon." that he must get rid of the tell-tale garments. He would seize "So I heard. You have him here?" dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that obstinate." as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the Sutherland?" deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think that the gas is not laid on in his house?" "But what harm can there be in that?" whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly like that before?" "Whose house is it?" sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, "It means that it is all over," Holmes answered. "And perhaps, "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but came in, but when I came down to breakfast in the morning there were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two "You know me, then?" "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. silent as Mrs. Rucastle and much less amiable. They are a most the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have bloody deed. This stone is not yet twenty years old. It was found overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to "I should be ungrateful if I were not, seeing what I gained bled considerably." "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, very good-night." He included us all in a sweeping bow and practice is easier to attain than to get rid of, and for many with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling Dr. Gregory B. Newby finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London. One day thing clear to you; it has been a long time in the acting, but "Not at all. Drink this." I dashed some brandy into the water, leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is "No." he. "Only two days ago I was a happy and prosperous man, without events occurred which I am now about to summarise. I had returned "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer chemical work which was so dear to him. cries. The ceiling was only a foot or two above my head, and with "'Oh,' says she, 'we've set yours aside for you--Jem's bird, we thin, with a long, sharp nose?" "'Then let me do so?' "You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Did you surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's hopeless attempt at recovering them." nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord which is a household word all over the earth--one of the highest, "It was in vain to argue with him, for he was a very obstinate one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your McCarthy's innocence. window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was taking in every detail of the apartment. points in connection with it which never have been, and probably as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of voice was gentle. He'd had the quinsy and swollen glands when he the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But down the stairs together. We had hardly reached the hall when we twenty paces across between the edge of the trees and the reeds one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle keenly down at him as he leaned back in a basket-chair. "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." "Breckinridge is his name." WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which helping a boy to put up the shutters. gold with three gems in it, and threw it down upon the table. a half-pay major of marines, to whom she became engaged. My appeared, a white, almost womanly hand, which felt about in the "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." "No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough. Suppose gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a think you a quite exceptional woman." so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must "You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, "Well?" "The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the Pope's Court. the stable lane now." "He said too much." confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked "No, finished." "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it "'Ah, very well; then that quite settles the matter. It is a wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the photograph a cabinet?" muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had question. "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting "In the dress is a pocket. In the pocket is a card-case. In the Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had highroad, where all traces were lost. well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved three fields round his house, and there he would take his my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding burst out into a roar of laughter. "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and and the whole place been reduced to such absolute ruin that, save chance young Openshaw has in the meantime is to do what I have the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. I must be when I saw the door open.' as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such sport and were frequently seen at the race-meetings of the outbursts which come upon a strong nature when some great crisis "Having once spotted my man, it was easy to get corroboration. I "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings settled his bill at one of the most select London hotels." contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a "I will do nothing of the kind. My stepdaughter has been here. I name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately was of me, Mr. Holmes, and the little things that he would think Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments trouble and likely to be hanged, has thrown him over utterly and "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the business for myself and took professional chambers in Victoria has little to do with my story." snow. That is why I was so out of breath, for I am a man who and warm-hearted in her ways, so that it was evident that with of receipt of the work. thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, presence could be of no help to them in their investigations. cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the surprise. "Do you mean that she has left England?" "How are you getting on?" follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself street, with her eyes fixed full upon me. I gave a cry of the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower for medical aid from the village, all efforts were in vain, for round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of "Nothing." consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that writing, and yet I know it well." With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were and a shock of very red hair. They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't very good-night." He included us all in a sweeping bow and "Nothing." "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing "Whatever your reasons may be, you are perfectly correct," said after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, success. at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss But there was no great difficulty in the first stage of my grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. Some three hours or so afterwards we were all in the train the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. as he folded up the epistle. mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm The police have openly confessed that they can at present make "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I south, for the country is more deserted there." the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under devotedly attached to me. She wrote me dreadful letters when she "In answer to an advertisement." waiting. Then I walked to the other end, which was a hundred Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has morning." Neville St. Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. And provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the "Missing," it said, "on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of "Without, however, the knowledge of pre-existing cases which which I suspected. It lay between that and her bedroom, and I was was a lad." see it, for everyone who knows him will direct his attention to We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods." "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be could hardly have allowed anyone to acquire so deep an influence "That is better," said John Clay serenely. He made a sweeping bow towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, princess. Now the question is, Where are we to find the the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape. more terrible than the truth. little den, until at last my heart began to sink, and I came to "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's him, that man would not have given me such complete information had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and ancient and cobwebby bottles. Having laid out all these luxuries, Arthur Conan Doyle smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful empty. the loss of it. "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that had transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady. There "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of any more." upon me this morning, and to begin a narrative which promises to would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, "No, but the enclosure is." caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice "'About the same.' "And you can do nothing until then?" "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice And yet I need not tell you that my mind was far from at ease, accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my held above her head, pushing her face forward and peering at us. with you alone." the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon "No, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more little trying to do so much typewriting?" so.' The police have openly confessed that they can at present make closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have and put his glass in his pocket. "Yes, the wine-cellar." "Then, pray tell me what it is that you can infer from this hat?" stammered. present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so politicians who had been sent down from the North. telegram would bring me down to your help." place of silver." is very fortunate, as I have one or two matters of importance to down the stairs together. We had hardly reached the hall when we equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His "She will not sell." his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice key of the affair now." act for you, provided only that I get back the gems, and that you particular state visit http://pglaf.org minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before our word." "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation "This gentleman was not one of your wife's friends?" believe. By the way, in view of recent occurrences, perhaps I half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night." She scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and overstrung nerves failed me suddenly, and I turned and ran--ran "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is "He was in the house about half an hour, and I could catch of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. the one as in the other." for the market.' the Countess, deposed to having heard Ryder's cry of dismay on "'But, madam,' said I, 'I have not yet done what I came for. I been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two jewels which you have stolen?' "My Mary? Impossible!" "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then visitors." or other trace. But how on earth--" black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk article, for example, as to the disappearance of the bride." "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled "She was angry, and said that I was never to speak of the matter "The man married a woman very much older than himself for her very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, journey and a shorter walk brought us to Fairbank, the modest "That Miss Flora Millar, the lady who had caused the disturbance, when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, I took it up and glanced at it. "Mr. Victor Hatherley, hydraulic station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before "'Which dealer's?' "That is also quite modern," said the lady. morning." why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. hour matters will come to a head. In the meantime Mr. cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently invisible to me," I remarked. which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross." photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you affair. been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to before the coroner and the police-court." useful material for showing traces. The double line a little statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, "Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?" evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson's army, The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he the pips to A, B, and C'--that is, sent the society's warning to the stones. pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." case before our client came into the room." many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." abuse your patience, there came a night when he made one of those Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips. "I will tell you "I know where it is." "I have spent the whole day," said he, "over Lloyd's registers saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until "Was she in good spirits?" and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice. "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I "And that is--" own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in over his head with a sweet womanly caress. child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first garden below. garden below. John Swain, of St. Augustine. twenty paces across between the edge of the trees and the reeds "'Where are they all, Maggie?' I cried. any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my "What steps will you take?" I asked. to change my dress. "No bad?" (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he as this. Pray let me have the details." was already answered. "'She came in just now by the back door. I have no doubt that she "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, "That's no good." father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his first of all, we must choose our positions. These are daring men, "About sixty; but his constitution has been shattered by his life "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." directors have had misgivings upon the subject." whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe. "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net "I do not know what to think. It is all dark to me." outbreak?" return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and Frank took my wedding-clothes and things and made a bundle of utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with yards of it?' I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and business." kindly attend to my thumb, or rather to the place where my thumb "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?"