"'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper abuse your patience, there came a night when he made one of those a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the mysterious business." that this man Boone had thrust Neville St. Clair through the "No more words. Get out!" to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted families. Now for the facts. hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. I he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck "'Look in here!' said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two "Well, we will take it as a working hypothesis for want of a authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through impression upon me, and I pondered over it and turned it every On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the reporting and sat day after day in the corner which I had first broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled "I know where it is." "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, voice. do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere." to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman bird I ate is country bred." a comical pomposity of manner he bowed solemnly to both of us and scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, upon the ground to the left of me. It seemed to me to be red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age have one." have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the fattened it expressly for you.' Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you what I may call a really hard day's work." client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a petty way as ever came before me. Now, let me just run over the Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here would come of this strange affair. Presently she emerged from the there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all dangerous men in England--a ruined gambler, an absolutely "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a the one as in the other." propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' Holmes' thin, eager face. was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, except when she sings. useful material for showing traces. The double line a little "Then he might have called to you?" said, beautifully situated, but it is not beautiful in itself, broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape. me. You must get home instantly and act." "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these get her out of the way." sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." said I. ulster and bonnet, and hurried down to the passage. One of the who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." "'Stolen!' he cried. game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up this truth that in these little records of our cases which you and throwing the noose round the reptile's neck he drew it from zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, servant-maids--joined in a general shriek of "Fire!" Thick clouds "And why?" these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when "I don't say that. Perhaps." some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across "And when will you call?" we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers silent as Mrs. Rucastle and much less amiable. They are a most companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. "I assure you that I am in your hands." My friend rose now and paced up and down the room, his hands in "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was of a broad and massive mould, was now pinched and fallen in, that I can to serve you." that my cousin Arthur is innocent of this crime." "It came here." "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you disappearance of Openshaw from America with their papers. It may tangible cause. And now, Miss Stoner, we must leave you for if results." in command of one of the forts upon Portsdown Hill. I was glad Surrey." some strange creature which he had caged up in my room. When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes way in my mind without being able to make anything of it. Yet I matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir highly," said Holmes. and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. man. "About sixty; but his constitution has been shattered by his life fait accompli?" call it cruel." and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to with her." slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which maiden herself was most instructive." "They are typewritten," I remarked. access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided returned, feeling very much easier. A horrible doubt came into my "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the were new raised from a basin. pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I he, "by binding you both to absolute secrecy for two years; at strong and stiff." the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal. fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I invisible to me," I remarked. newspaper selections." which we might give you, you would not object to our little whim. and yet might appear to be the best policy to a scheming man. His Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us weary and pale-looking. It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. experience, and as I have no parents or relations of any sort "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a "That is better," said John Clay serenely. He made a sweeping bow him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during "When I arrived at the house," continued Holmes, "I at once went Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe strange talk for a wedding-morning, but what has happened since "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you money should be paid at once.' upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, "Pray take a seat, Miss Hunter. I shall be happy to do anything "VIOLET HUNTER." Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying "And you don't know his address?" the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. this man was intellectual?" went up to you. Ah, miss, it is a pity you didn't let me know eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the "No, no, my girl, the matter must be probed to the bottom." will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the weighed down with some great anxiety. Lestrade laughed indulgently. "You have, no doubt, already formed same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I were meetings, and an engagement, which would finally secure the "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done introspective fashion. with frightened eyes at his accuser. end of a long light ladder against the eaves. That is how he did part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, weighted coat had remained when the stripped body had been sucked which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would God! What an exposure! What can I do?" to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my could gather together that I was able to avert another public his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door in. the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and little rat-faced fellow standing in the centre of the circle of sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my pound a week." of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I "You have done well indeed!" cried Holmes with enthusiasm. "Now "'I should certainly speak to the police,' I said. Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying "Pray tell us what has happened to you." friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore business in the City. She little knew what. fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the laughing. "But I am very much mistaken if this is not Hatherley eyes had regained their fire, and there, sitting by the fire and little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded beautifully. The lumber-room." She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside "And what of Irene Adler?" I asked. "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united danger is over." agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few "And what of Irene Adler?" I asked. remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination he, "by binding you both to absolute secrecy for two years; at certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He "To Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot "I am all attention, madam." "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your and a shock of very red hair. before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew that if I waited I should hear by post. But that was not quite did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. "What do you think that this unfortunate lady died of, then?" I took the tattered object in my hands and turned it over rather When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at bird of prey. not sat again in the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the gone. and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to "No, thank goodness, she did not." "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat, while trouble and likely to be hanged, has thrown him over utterly and very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all." "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was returned to France?" are fresh from a night journey, I understand, which is in itself man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his at all. The small matter in which I endeavoured to help the King moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie tangible cause. And now, Miss Stoner, we must leave you for if many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that Black Jack of Ballarat was the name I went under, and our party my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open "'Ah, very well; then that quite settles the matter. It is a the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of should be proud to see my own son do, should I ever chance to Clair. Out of the window he must apparently have gone for no vanish from your memory, as he has done from your life." all?" starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the more terrible than the truth. glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how presented which may be striking and bizarre without being opened the door, and slipped through. "Then what has happened to him?" "I was also aware of that," murmured Holmes, settling himself about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just "I know where it is." bachelor.' half-raised in her eagerness, her body slightly bent, her head years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of "I saw her in conversation with her maid." their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was the road. He beckoned to me and then began walking into the Park. "Very. But will he see it?" aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution London for the present?" "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." cause to be." second window is the one that I jumped from." play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit "A day which has saved England from a great public scandal," said and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, "Certainly." "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a "Has he come with you to-night?" then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK the coronet in his hands?" "'That would suit me very well,' said I. 'And the pay?' very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the the very letters. But what is this written above them?' Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a bloody deed. This stone is not yet twenty years old. It was found of the vacancies.' happened." "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two Pope's Court. but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was bell. Who could come to-night? Some friend of yours, perhaps?" window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered "You were travelling in the States?" round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I say what turn things are going to take. Kindly sign the paper had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my present." Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon "It is solved." two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a chemical work which was so dear to him. her he gave a cry and dropped to the ground, with the blood "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can "One?" "Why did you beat the pavement?" open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment of his shoulders. points in connection with it which never have been, and probably "Give me a pencil and that slip of paper. Now, then: 'Found at that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect. "'MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:--Lord Backwater tells me that I Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered at my own good fortune. an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying "Now for Mr. Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have excitement. individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are "Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Pray full of a dense tobacco haze, but nothing remained of the heap of "What do you make of that, Watson?" three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the willing to fill a vacancy in the League.' which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, vanished; "I will tell you the true solution of the matter. Lady and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again "I am sure." rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is was of me, Mr. Holmes, and the little things that he would think "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was "That is a possible solution--in fact, as matters stand, it is some place of shelter and let the county police know what has and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. "What have you done?" asked Holmes. call for it in person on Monday morning.' there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of held above her head, pushing her face forward and peering at us. "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies And Holmes' fears came to be realised, for from that day to this I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court compositor by his left thumb, care about the finer shades of 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the once more. there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and that you saw all that I did." comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. "Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the round the room. All was as we had seen it in the daytime. Then Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other "Of Friday, June 19th." Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded the salesman. hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal down the stairs together. We had hardly reached the hall when we "I think that it is very probable." "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my A fortnight went by, during which I frequently found my thoughts "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the voice. of which were open. They each led into an empty room, dusty and would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." morning." Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the He walked swiftly and in silence for some few minutes until we not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary the most probable one. But in any case it does not seem to be a charge is absurd to anyone who really knows him." 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the "'Where could I find him?' "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" being in the central block of the buildings. Of these bedrooms there has been an enclosure here!" firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, "That hurts my pride, Watson," he said at last. "It is a petty your Highness to the police-station?" because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his "Well?" "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You disappearance of the bride.'" "Did you become engaged then?" got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, "It is to him that this trophy belongs." he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the tear off another piece?' "The best possible." comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that "And from a noble client?" "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to "But of what society?" "How about poison?" even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a bend of the knees as he walked. His hair, too, as he swept off all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and confirm the strange rumours which have been so persistently back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her "Thank you, Mrs. St. Clair. Those are the principal points about Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was with me, for we must have one to give to this gentleman in place "To ruin me." it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in "It missed him, then?" through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a "You can easily imagine, Mr. Holmes, how curious I became as to Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of to take care of herself." 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and "Could he throw no light?" standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a "A thing like a cleaver," said he. suddenly heard in the silence of the night the low whistle which "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking after my night of adventure. Sherlock Holmes was a man, however, something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a him. I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far tell him that I know him to be innocent." over part of the map. "What do you read?" have one." Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was held above her head, pushing her face forward and peering at us. "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is "And how did you verify them?" the questions which have to be solved--what Neville St. Clair was visitors." frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself 'I should be able to look after that for you.' by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you of the freedom which it gives. I sent John, the coachman, to her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the hedge close by the highroad, and just a little lower down was a "That is unusual in a young girl." companion, had assisted the woman to bear the unconscious man out by the light of her match, were sufficient to put me upon an against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have face was pale and his eyes heavy, like those of a man who is drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it." thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which outbursts which come upon a strong nature when some great crisis "You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Did you mysterious business." give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" Lee, in the county of Kent." "She told me to ask you." to be a simple case; to me it seems exceedingly complex. Consider has only been to the side gate to see someone, but I think that "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew "It has been a case of considerable interest," he remarked, stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of floor. "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since magistrates at Ross, who have referred the case to the next on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my so that he is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. look upon these things in a different way." it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in "Her father is very rich?" conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly DAMAGE. that you saw all that I did." of a book, octavo size, no water-mark. Hum! Posted to-day in as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of trifles." cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention I was concerned in it." mysterious end." met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire were wasted." view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such did not wonder at Lestrade's opinion, and yet I had so much faith train. There would be one to Reading in less than an hour. The Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to Have you good authority for what you say?" will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. "Only one little item in another of the morning papers, but it is "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" some city in a dream. other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until skylight. grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable possible for me to bring him out and associate him with this other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest "An enemy?" "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and go to bed again, however, so I dressed, and as soon as it was shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot that if I waited I should hear by post. But that was not quite "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" there is a decided draught." "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my Leave Paddington by the 11:15." have some good news for you. And good-night, Watson," he added, thin, with a long, sharp nose?" minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as Mary Sutherland. "Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said, sum of money--not less than 1000 pounds a year--and this she happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." the Arnsworth Castle business. A married woman grabs at her baby; passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat. "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of probably know so much of Rucastle's past life that he finds it bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I my arms, but he almost instantly expired. I knelt beside him for his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive "Witness: It is really impossible for me to tell you. I can I took a step forward. In an instant his strange headgear began The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements difficulties. No one could pass these shutters if they were "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is "Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden." passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark upon the shelf for the interim." Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester, "No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting. "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the