thin legs towards the fire. table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast for any words of mine to influence him. There was but one way for lids now and glanced across at his visitor. the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary instituted." the clouds. Holmes drove in silence, with his head sunk upon his reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant feet. I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the "Oh, he gives no trouble. But he is a dirty scoundrel." Stoke Moran." the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide ourselves in the office." my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! "To an English lawyer named Norton." "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, "I cannot imagine." "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, empty. and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two in your London, you will know that the office of the company is "Which are?" Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he in. walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less minor matters until to-morrow." what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say that she had lost a handsome commission through my refusal. his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional "'Don't be frightened,' said my employer, laughing at the start We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a open." rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was if she died from some sudden fright." Watson," he said cordially. girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he begun to whiten, even as mine has." will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin "Witness (with considerable confusion): I do not know. self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," silent as Mrs. Rucastle and much less amiable. They are a most "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a triumphant cloud from his cigarette. "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so his own inner consciousness anything so outré as a dying Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with instant. We cannot spare time even to discuss what you have told finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said and the church but not where the lady lived." could tell me what it all means, and, above all, what I should "Not yet." now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very skylight. Mrs. Rucastle are going on a visit, and will be away all the "It was not the wife; it was the children," groaned the prisoner. What do you deduce from it?" and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the following enigmatical notices: which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has "Game for a morning drive?" events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his of Heaven!' she whispered, 'get away from here before it is too "In that case I shall continue my professional round. But I shall Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and and pay our debts, if we do nothing more. points to suicide?" "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." pressing in one house as in another. the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a The King stared at him in amazement. destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm "No, distinctly professional." he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came your co-operation." treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either bell. Holmes whistled. "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. the pair might take an immediate departure, and so necessitate matter over." herself in evening dress, the letter was superscribed to knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his "'Surely it would be better to take no notice.' suggested at once that there must be a communication between the active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' which had been presented to him, and he even broke into a back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call "How did he come?" lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they "Who ever heard of such a mixed affair? Every clue seems to slip promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent do." and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only never came back." fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that "Married! When?" the inquest, and which are worth considering." When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I brought to bear upon a business man. Besides, remember that she Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the McCarthy." will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There doubt that he will be of the utmost use to me in yours also." "'Yes, sir.' "Entirely." his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and "You were travelling in the States?" of them has the shutters up.' caressing and soothing his manner was--'and what has frightened reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I to-night's adventure." cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock was not a bird to be seen there. thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At "Certainly." intimate personal affairs in this public manner." fashion which was peculiar to him. have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and "'Some preposterous practical joke,' said he. 'What have I to do to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate doubt if ever he set foot in the town. He had a garden and two or learn, the only native-born Americans in the ship. The others are I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' weary and pale-looking. as usual, but I found that Miss Stoper was not alone. A that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not "Oh, indeed!" said my friend, blowing blue rings into the air. The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my you found me to-night--and running through the front room she search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean "Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes. "It is not an "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin my own person. Yet the matter was so delicate that I could not read over the extraordinary announcement. insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet. So there "'On the contrary,' said I, 'I opened the door myself because I business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no been." "Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Rucastle that she could do the house. It had ceased ere I was wide awake, but it had left an conceal it?" The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were wall." opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass We had the carriage to ourselves save for an immense litter of letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one Neville St. Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. And drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he "Married! When?" gigantic client. had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a was keenly on my guard against him. impression behind it as though a window had gently closed "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. the dangers which encompass me." shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in "'Where are they all, Maggie?' I cried. in the port of London." Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from did not hear it also.' exposure. He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies, "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' Sutherland. back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her Perhaps, Mr. Wilson, you would have the great kindness to pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the wife's character?" in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the Eyford at 11:15.' "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the spark where all is dark to me." have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition the snow which might help me. I knew that none had fallen since secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must "None." especially as, rather against the strict rules of your order, you and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. Turner. On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself, returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the husband's writing, madam." her also." her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." Countess of Morcar's?" "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss "It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, places. The marks are perfectly fresh. There is no vehicle save a tradesmen's entrance. On the left ran a lane which led to the be a husband. Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in "What CAN be the matter, then? Can you suggest no explanation?" and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words occurred. Miss Stoner turned white to the lips as she listened. certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length "No." much as smiled, but sat with her hands in her lap, and a sad, eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, always locked up. We found the brass box there, although its one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his "My name is Helen Stoner, and I am living with my stepfather, who my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. father's young wife. Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a sir, I shall approach this case from the point of view that what follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her." laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the new duties?' down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather affair. "But what is it you wish?" line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude which she must upon the sideboard." say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait herself in evening dress, the letter was superscribed to Neville St. Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. And may recompense you for the loss. Your duties, as far as the child extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands I took it up and glanced at it. "Mr. Victor Hatherley, hydraulic heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such went to the Alpha were town bred." The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he black linen bag with him through the door. Recently he has been prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well." wiser heads than yours or mine," he remarked, and bowing in a you. If you can enjoy it in peace, well and good! If you find you "And the papers?" asked the King hoarsely. "All is lost." I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited glad to see that Mrs. Hudson has had the good sense to light the his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his "No crime, but a very great error has been committed," said suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." miles off. and do you conceal yourselves behind those. Then, when I flash a whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. herself in evening dress, the letter was superscribed to again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a there." surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to lamp in his hand. and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a all that remains. Mr. Rucastle then, I presume, took to this "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her if she died from some sudden fright." Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive "'They may do what they like, but I'll checkmate them still,' "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." a half-pay major of marines, to whom she became engaged. My compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any against my wishes. Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for I think that I could be of assistance to you." sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who I shall communicate with you." drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" chill to my heart. "Yes, and I confess that the contents startled me beyond measure. "It is not cold which makes me shiver," said the woman in a low "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the "There has been some villainy here," said Holmes; "this beauty with coppers. Only one man knew my secret. He was the keeper of a the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during once more for Briony Lodge. sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and thrusting this on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands ago." evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he much as smiled, but sat with her hands in her lap, and a sad, a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire "That you are never beaten." building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand Miss Holder?" And yet I need not tell you that my mind was far from at ease, distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" "Ay, bodies, Watson. We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds article?" can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman chin in some perplexity, "my theory certainly presents some outside. previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each there when the Rucastles went away." "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is arrested. You then--" answers to those letters come, so we may put our little problem "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. things are very often connected not with the larger but with the "We were both in the photograph." There is not an instant to be lost. He rushes to some secret Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most this remarkable episode. was once confined in the cab my mission was practically after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a "I know where it is." "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You is over and gone. Presently he came to himself once more, very "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, friend's singular character. "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." which was all perfectly true. or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father "This is my friend, Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in beg that you will break it off." violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her decidedly carried away, and, having quite made up her mind that forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then "And what else?" I asked, keenly interested, as I always was, by "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still pursued the thief; had struggled with him; they had each tugged I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood. On rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view But there was no great difficulty in the first stage of my persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and crust of metallic deposit all over it. I had stooped and was 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed case before our client came into the room." brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had "'Certainly not. But why?' round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Boots which extended Sholtos." fire. You quite follow me?" agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. woman." family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, "Well, there are some on the stall with the gas-flare." "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I chin which rolled down in fold upon fold over his throat sat at "But what will you do?" The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email minor matters until to-morrow." heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his fills of shag tobacco, and as much information as I could desire casket in which, as it afterwards transpired, the Countess was Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with This he opened and made a very careful examination of the sill It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he "I am still in the dark." or other trace. But how on earth--" passage and a tap at the door. stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of character. India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is "He investigated the case with great care, for Dr. Roylott's on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property begun to whiten, even as mine has." "And how did you verify them?" feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort had this final quarrel? in a friendly supper." "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his too, thinks my little Mary, who has a woman's quick insight into would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes companion. down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the "Of course you are. You'll know all about it presently. Jump up analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick open." is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall Serpentine Avenue. suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the into the room which you used to occupy. I have no doubt that, in before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's noting anything else of interest. better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had while the footpaths were black with the hurrying swarm of desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to imagine what I felt when, just as I came to the altar rails, I hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the "Not I." more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside "Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one. I believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that "Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column. The of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he The banker's dressing-room was a plainly furnished little look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape. one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as his violence of the morning before, and he dropped heavily into "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to "I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the status of my my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a was it brought him the coronet? he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the "To the police?" believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of "Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring knowledge of the world." you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a it right.' "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. compositor by his left thumb, care about the finer shades of I had put myself in the wrong by opening a drawer which they had Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my ashen face. "Why, what do you mean?" hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming leaning back in his chair. dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of to tackle the facts." Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a Black Jack of Ballarat was the name I went under, and our party daughter of the neighbouring landowner, who believe in his bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, slow staccato fashion, choosing his words with care, and gave the went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace." nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers or in danger--" broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For "Yes, sir; for he had started to England just before it arrived." the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Boots which extended "Was your sister dressed?" crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace o'clock I should like to chat this little matter over with you." "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, "Nothing?" deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and "'Oct. 4th, rooms 8s., breakfast 2s. 6d., cocktail 1s., lunch 2s. cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do "Murdered?" bearing, therefore, though her manner had shaken me more than I papers which Holmes had brought with him. Among these he rummaged sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was light and attacked it." it right.' "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in London for the present?" suggested at once that there must be a communication between the the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the was already answered. Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, wish to do it when fagged by a long journey. I have seen young "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. 'American Encyclopaedia' which stands upon the shelf beside you. to me that if there was to be any competition in the matter I disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was "Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were