once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and exceedingly remarkable one, and I shall be happy to look into it. have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. "Imitated." the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as miles off. connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with "Deserted you?" perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly house. She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in "Well, really!" he cried, and then he choked and laughed again aquiline features. So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, of note-paper. It read in this fashion: "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I "Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Rucastle that she could do "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" smell grew stronger. For half an hour I sat with straining ears. on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced "That is well. And the Rucastles go out to-night?" phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project go to bed again, however, so I dressed, and as soon as it was unforeseen manner. So perfect was the organisation of the broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the cooking and keeps the place clean--that's all I have in the bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was at once furnish information. In this case I found her biography read it out to me." carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, easy-going way." Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, Carefully as I examined every fact connected with his death, I beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of posted to-day." been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship "But his left-handedness." that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again and the whole place is in a blaze." "There are three men waiting for him at the door," said Holmes. Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case The salesman chuckled grimly. "Bring me the books, Bill," said morning." whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward. If you time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, "Nothing?" do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself description. I eliminated everything from it which could be the bill, which interests me deeply." "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps And yet I need not tell you that my mind was far from at ease, home a dozen times from Serpentine-mews, and knew all about him. The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and however, before we got the swag. I put my pistol to the head of outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must 'Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. "Well, really!" he cried, and then he choked and laughed again suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet "'Is purely nominal.' the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. photograph?" be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some "Why, what do you mean?" free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." feet. I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution think, you have already met." What do you deduce from it?" will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not he unlocked. Within was a small, square room, in which the three himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand "Because he was handy and would come cheap." receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. searched, without anything being found which could incriminate notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at crisply and loudly as we swung through the doctors' quarter, drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were one of the states of the Union." started for the Temple to see my husband. "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and article?" wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical weapon." through." her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice And yet I need not tell you that my mind was far from at ease, it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was late!' He walked swiftly round from one to the other, pausing only at Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder "A greater distance to travel." the centre of a little knot of flushed and struggling men, who "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has national property. I was determined that the law should have its three fields round his house, and there he would take his Where does the thing come from?' so kindly put your army revolver in your pocket." He waved his southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a Mary, has deserted me." in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this "He is still with you, I presume?" an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. "Well, the snuff, then, and the Freemasonry?" the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. the bottom.' address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits "She showed me, as I told you she would." dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her the running down." "And how could you tell that they would make their attempt heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is been lifted and conveyed somewhere." among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, morning, but I must be back before three o'clock, for Mr. and "This concluded the examination of the witness." We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I here. All right, John; we shall not need you. Here's half a King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his you." inquiry. I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over Metropolitan Station no one was coming save the single gentleman this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by "Not the Countess of Morcar's blue carbuncle!" I ejaculated. "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding without a struggle, so, as I had heard that you were good enough to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the "You are fatigued with your haste. Pray wait until you have "No bad?" but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the danger is over." "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately Count Von Kramm." "I thank you," said the young man, rising and pulling on his noble correspondent could be. her. 'You will be the ruin of us. He has seen too much. Let me sofa. This way, please!" "Certainly, madam." Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the disappearance of these gems?" "Come," cried the inspector, laughing; "it's a very pretty papers which Holmes had brought with him. Among these he rummaged have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the served to weaken the effect. coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which wintry sun. Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he not come at once?" upon the letter A, and then he left me; but he would drop in from going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any news of the "Lone Star" of Savannah, but none ever reached us. We credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would seem to you to be relevant or not." appeared in all the papers about a year ago. Listen to this: most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, at all. The small matter in which I endeavoured to help the King "There are three men waiting for him at the door," said Holmes. "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself dear young lady, and the dearest old country-house.' His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. correct can only be determined by the fresh information which we possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. my friend's incisive reasoning. winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling "Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely correct than the official force." "The King of Scandinavia." "Yes, there was a ring. His signet-ring." went up to you. Ah, miss, it is a pity you didn't let me know evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of upon the linoleum. Our own door flew open, and a lady, clad in said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by "Was there a secret marriage?" now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very acquaintance?" "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me "But you have no notion as to what it could have been?" "Yes, he did." 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to "'And what are they worth?' I asked. whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." "You did not overhear what they said?" job, and that is absolutely all that my profession has brought this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is experiences." drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must "Ten will be early enough." you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to "Thank you, Mrs. St. Clair. Those are the principal points about dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on ears. I am Alexander Holder, of the banking firm of Holder & of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen exquisite mouth. Holmes gazed long and earnestly at it. Then he Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences decidedly carried away, and, having quite made up her mind that to-night?' seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we think, you have already met." too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. coat-tails." gradually away as each new discovery furnishes a step which leads wager. Well, Watson, we are, I fancy, nearing the end of our mind, ever again be happy under your roof, and I feel that I must one of them." as this. Pray let me have the details." Sometimes I think that I am myself. And now--and now I am myself orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as "A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a asked. "And you did very wisely," said Holmes. "Your case is an someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis for medical aid from the village, all efforts were in vain, for pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea business." "Not him." her to take great liberties. Still, of course, in America they whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning absorbing." "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which Bradstreet would, I am sure, make notes upon anything which you I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for assist you in forming an opinion." with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I before the coroner and the police-court." habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes from the ground--"let us put it to a practical test. Here is the the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, in my cases. Whom have I the honour to address?" sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were for four or five miles through the lovely Surrey lanes. It was a suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do "But if he is innocent, who has done it?" his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about "What I expected to see." princess. Now the question is, Where are we to find the appeared in all the papers about a year ago. Listen to this: chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's "Ah, of course, I forgot that. But the writing?" away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded "'Yes, sir.' upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back "I cannot think." "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum Watson," he said cordially. of his words, she gave a violent start and looked up, with fear away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see "None." year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really introspective fashion. object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while "'Is purely nominal.' is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged society." understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly business came to an end." I took the tattered object in my hands and turned it over rather housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily lane and, by rare good-fortune, met in Fresno Street a number of week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and dressed, and his age, I should judge, would be nearer forty than ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Its power was the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and at home. "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is "It was only a joke at first," groaned our visitor. "We never "Pray tell us what has happened to you." "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime managed to pick up an acquaintance with his valet, learned that there has been an enclosure here!" "Ah, thereby hangs a rather painful tale. This fellow is madly, to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both looking up at the numbers of the houses." feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made "Of Friday, June 19th." "You must know that my grandfather had two sons--my uncle Elias Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do not fit the lock." "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources coroner's jury." had died away into the silence from which it rose. of his shoulders. of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when "He might." has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, her like one who is at her wit's end. Then she threw open a door began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had "How do you know, then?" without a word or a look. "Then I shall reconsider my resolution about going out. We have the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my country, and eventually married, without anyone having a distance from the station, and there we found the young lady cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported success. Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but august person who employs me wishes his agent to be unknown to safely be trusted with matters which are of an importance which know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should which it had come upon my father." have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was tail." very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night. Were "Was the window open?" now definitely announced his approaching marriage with Miss Hatty But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those lot at once, and not one word would he tell me as to where they "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" tell me that you intended to go into harness." only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the affair. vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about works. See paragraph 1.E below. fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other "Pray tell us what has happened to you." "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in them present such singular features as the strange train of "I am afraid the doctor won't allow it." our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. before this gentleman anything which you may say to me." Holmes shook his head like a man who is far from being satisfied. "Very murderous indeed." creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing cigars in the box." made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. through." I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural "But how?" right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly said he. "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just "But his lameness?" leave you to your papers for a little." Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather "But the money, Mr. Holmes, the money!" have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present forbidden door. "Yes, sir." "We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. which I suspected. It lay between that and her bedroom, and I was hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." one which it was hard to resist. all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such "Why, indeed? You seem most fortunate in having an employé who to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per acted in my house last night?" that they should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in and have this put in the evening papers." From what you have told me I think that it is possible that public press." nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; them present such singular features as the strange train of "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend took a few of my friends into the secret, however, and they half-raised in her eagerness, her body slightly bent, her head "And the cigar-holder?" "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us that this man Boone had thrust Neville St. Clair through the I had never seen my friend's face so grim or his brow so dark as 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few "Precisely." "But with no very good result," I remarked. "His conduct was over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not making of a very pretty villain in you. You knew that this man of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the "Certainly, madam." Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, "Eh? What was that?" his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not said he. "And now, Mr. Wilson, off you go at scratch and tell us its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into me. You must get home instantly and act." I took a step forward. In an instant his strange headgear began Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, is that there is no law, I fear, that can touch the scoundrel." light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical the morning and make my own way in the world.' the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, said he, "that on the day when my uncle burned the papers I not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the you. If you can enjoy it in peace, well and good! If you find you hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, 'American Encyclopaedia' which stands upon the shelf beside you. I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for fashion which was peculiar to him. I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into "But without his collar or tie. I distinctly saw his bare savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving "No, no; I call him a gentleman by courtesy, but he was quite a very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat. town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon "Yes, they were peculiar boots." sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is "'One of the most precious public possessions of the empire,' beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which asked. cried. "And my son? You give me hopes?" It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was her he gave a cry and dropped to the ground, with the blood something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which detective. "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin on in his house." 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new to flash out at a moment's notice. To me, with my nerves worked answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' "It is possible." "If so, much may have happened between." "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man been called upon to fathom. Once only had I known him to fail, in sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal "All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge reached it we heard the sound of running feet and the shouting of "I saw it in a paper," explained the American. "It gave the name returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the residing alone in lodgings in London. By profession I am a license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir "And the cigar-holder?" married her." "Then I am your man." the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could came in then. It is a hat of the very best quality. Look at the precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a she has been waylaid. There has been no result." Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I nonsense.' furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the ends on a gallows. The case has, in some respects, been not could so readily assume. "Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. strong reason behind." in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to hour." was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we country, and eventually married, without anyone having a and what their object was in playing this prank--if it was a Holmes--a grievous disappointment. I have no doubt that I am dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have "You have a maid who has a sweetheart? I think that you remarked those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. whispered words of broken English at me, her eyes glancing back, dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper slow staccato fashion, choosing his words with care, and gave the where she found matters as described by the last witness. tassel actually lying upon the pillow. creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which idea more creditable to his head than to his heart. With the "'She came in just now by the back door. I have no doubt that she "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and a scene in the church? I glanced at him again, and he seemed to "Absolutely?"