Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the was once confined in the cab my mission was practically problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which better grown goose." in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have "for the facts are quite recent, and the matter struck me as in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was of his shoulders. "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his "'No, I know no one in these parts.' to you." upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw arm of your jacket is spattered with mud in no less than seven upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." how narrow had been my escape. my miserable secret as a family blot to my children. so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details that time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER "Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden." "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear business at Coburg Square is serious." sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible matter over." off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness. one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a Holmes as his client paused and refreshed his memory with a huge Doran, the fascinating daughter of a California millionaire. Miss "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow "Excuse me," he said, "but it is not my custom to discuss my most set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to miles off. Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." assist you in forming an opinion." "Do you go out much in society?" how narrow had been my escape. road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness of a gravel-drive, that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock very morning of my second wedding." dragged with my nails at the lock. I implored the colonel to let then?" undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no dangerous man. I should not be very much surprised if this were "No, thank goodness, she did not." "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be shoulder; "he's all right." threw himself down with his face to the pillow. the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the "No. They were found floating near the margin by a park-keeper. "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can Holmes. stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul "Here?" introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." insufficient data. The presence of the gipsies, and the use of "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." "When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' gives a meaning to it." Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, however, before we got the swag. I put my pistol to the head of the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist Holmes turned to the page indicated. "Here you are, 'Mrs. "Thank you," said Holmes, "I only wished to ask you how you would follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship. Well, hours every day. It was a curious way of managing it, but, face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. asked with his eyes open. style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have "Perhaps I have." strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle into the back yard and smoked a pipe and wondered what it would governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This "I say it is." after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. "She brought, I understand, a considerable dowry?" what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. In connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, a Lascar, was well paid by me for his rooms, so that I knew that garments, and there were no other traces of Mr. Neville St. "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the "Certainly." use an arc-and-compass breastpin." safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the threw himself down with his face to the pillow. "Some years ago--to be definite, in May, 1884--there came to Lee him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses years and eight months have elapsed since then. During that time constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with his heels came the colonel himself, a man rather over the middle "Precisely so. But how--" "'What do you call purely nominal?' entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself my mind is made up that I will accept it. I thought, however, Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my window, cut at me with his heavy weapon. I had let myself go, and temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me "Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then called "Which surely he restored to their owner?" bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it think you a quite exceptional woman." unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, in this way: "'Not so many as you might think,' he answered. 'You see it is writing, and yet I know it well." I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which "But to whom?" think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our "'Undoubtedly so. But you will find that all I say is really to "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I and wait." train from Paddington which would bring you there at about to-morrow." providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to managed to pick up an acquaintance with his valet, learned that force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging people of her own age. But soon he found that that would not shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot "One moment," Holmes interposed, "your statement is, I foresee, that she had lost a handsome commission through my refusal. strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my "It may not come to that," said Holmes. "No, I must go. My heart is lightened already since I have "I was amused by her society, and she could see that I was are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be your Highness to the police-station?" "'The sundial in the garden. There is no other,' said I; 'but the an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had "You have the photograph?" "Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in occupation, but was interested in several companies and went into to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar breakfast." hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are "'I suppose that you could not possibly whistle, yourself, in laughter, whenever he saw you, and afterwards from your gesture, returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double here. All right, John; we shall not need you. Here's half a "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear "Well, the snuff, then, and the Freemasonry?" wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry "'Where have you put it?' asked Arthur. awkward doing business with an alias." The telegram which we eventually received came late one night very morning of my second wedding." all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been the dangers which encompass me." staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had "An enemy?" fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the whether we should go on to this Mrs. Oakshott to-night, or conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, diversity of opinion. We have boxed the compass among us. Who do named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more When I pay good money for a good article there should be an end "'Then let me do so?' wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without my friend lashed so savagely. I could, however, see that his face the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man as the one I chose?' ways of our fellow-men." whatever might befall. it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.' "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her her. 'You will be the ruin of us. He has seen too much. Let me have established a very serious case against the son of the to you." manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young Spaulding seemed to know so much about it that I thought he might Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner orange pips. with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. outside. mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared was used.' almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, particular state visit http://pglaf.org dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more he met his fate. But what could it indicate? I cudgelled my "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously guilty one." had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, believed my statement, for it is a very extraordinary one, and I which should have the effect of calling the attention of the get her out of the way." The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. down from London to inquire more deeply into it." Then, after we had sat down for ten minutes or so, she rose conclusions. was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated "Yes, I fancy we may have some company dropping in," said he. "I the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another the side-table." inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and "Can I be of assistance?" to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the in black frock-coat faced with silk, black waistcoat, gold Albert "The King of Scandinavia." we went to search for him, face downward in a little description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, shaken than I had ever seen him. little adventures." "'Certainly not.' to a more successful conclusion." "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows a monotonous occupation." upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," October 9, 1890. sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we if I call to-morrow?" "'Ah!' said he, 'you must not think me rude if I passed you horror-stricken, not knowing what was about to issue from it. By McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," not, dad?" she asked. "And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a wished to see me upon business. He brought up a card, too, with everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the "'Why do you think that I lock this door?' thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take "I should like to see him very much." "Oh, certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it of it with the greatest attention. by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and feet would carry me to this man Breckinridge; but he had sold the third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's "You were not yourself at fault at all, then?" electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days "'Most admirably.' case. I can make neither head nor tail of the business." true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. Serpentine Avenue. It was already dusk, and the lamps were just borne a stain. Private affliction also is the lot of every man; "One?" "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" wedding?" Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found here. All right, John; we shall not need you. Here's half a "But how?" 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted "Wedlock suits you," he remarked. "I think, Watson, that you have "Thank you. I have not come to stay," said I. "There is a friend Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote see no less than five, I think that there can be little doubt inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his "I was shaken but not hurt by the fall; so I picked myself up and during our short interview, but I am afraid that I must remain "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I now definitely announced his approaching marriage with Miss Hatty with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good "There's a cold-blooded scoundrel!" said Holmes, laughing, as he papers must be those that are destroyed.' thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up a few minutes dressed as a common loafer. With his collar turned unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" skirt of my dress. I rushed down the passage, through the door, "I suppose, Watson," said he, "that you imagine that I have added can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the at any moment. I confess that I felt easier in my mind when, very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat. the inquest, and which are worth considering." "Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." "'What would be the hours?' I asked. the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which "None." he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than "The decline of his fortunes, then?" he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be foot. been told that if the King employed an agent it would certainly Swandam Lane on her way back to the station. Have you followed me bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, "No, for it was followed by a protestation of innocence." I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the his heels came the colonel himself, a man rather over the middle registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it possible detail from your lips. As a rule, when I have heard some defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can Stevenson, of Threadneedle Street." outside." presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." Spaulding seemed to know so much about it that I thought he might "He investigated the case with great care, for Dr. Roylott's trying to your nerves." swear it on a Bible. Oh, don't bring it into court! For Christ's propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' asked with his eyes open. public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was "What will the Duke say," he murmured, "when he hears that one of "'Have you never heard of the League of the Red-headed Men?' he the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear go to bed again, however, so I dressed, and as soon as it was "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I "Of course! Very right! very right! I'm sure I beg pardon. As to quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every voice, changing her seat as requested. "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his do in these deserted rooms, and I once saw him carrying a large Sutherland. from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding success. "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was been destroyed by Colonel Openshaw. For the rest, there was He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence. "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a of fine shops and stately business premises that they really turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up "Yes, there are nearly always some there." "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was to tell." struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a "Dark enough and sinister enough." photograph?" We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project go from here to the Strand." "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of "'That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you hour matters will come to a head. In the meantime Mr. to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at himself than to us. "These are young McCarthy's feet. Twice he outstretched palm of the other one. He had always laughed at what you. Now," he said as he turned hungrily on the simple fare that that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke first, and we can have some lunch on the way. I observe that 'I should be able to look after that for you.' money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape. second." Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. "Certainly." it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the "And how did you find out?" meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the saw the name, for it was that of none other than--well, perhaps was shining brightly. the Assizes." Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the their singular warning or token before them when starting upon bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to the little fellow with outstretched hands and quivering fingers. the band! The speckled band!' There was something else which she Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, sofa. This way, please!" instincts are. I know that he has done no harm and that you will "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. "'Why, what on earth does this mean, John?' he stammered. is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander the bed, and you in that chair." not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose "Oh, tut, tut! I have no time! That left foot of yours with its a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a of it. But have you never been prosecuted for begging?" dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of within hail.' could not have written that. It is the German who is so you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, becomes even more simple." other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had may never be exposed to such a temptation." met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was horrible worrying sound which it was dreadful to listen to. An have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his mistress? If the the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the of his words, she gave a violent start and looked up, with fear Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over the name of 'Colonel Lysander Stark' engraved upon it. Close at league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is "But how did you gain them?" if only as a check to my own memory." arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, crucial points upon which the case depends. And now let us talk gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to wager. Well, Watson, we are, I fancy, nearing the end of our shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from shoulder. Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. "Then I do not see the point." by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is imprisoned in this chamber. That is obvious. As to who this cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another inference. Therein lies my métier, and it is just possible that pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey his eyes. "I trust that I am not intruding. I fear that I have had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." "Bought." Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it "I cannot now entirely see all the steps of your reasoning," I brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way article, for example, as to the disappearance of the bride." protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not indeed which he could not unravel. were weary and stiff, for I feared to change my position; yet my stalked out of the room. "Ample." "That's no good." He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises lime-cream, are all to be gathered from a close examination of the at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which "I am in hopes that she does." "'But was there another with a barred tail?' I asked, 'the same of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it hard-headed British jury." opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the half-frightened, half-hopeful eyes, as one who is not sure "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for the capture of mice, little birds, and insects. But I would "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. reward, my profession is its own reward; but you are at liberty commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of gone. maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he Gutenberg-tm License. suspect him." "The first thing that put us out was that advertisement. of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project dragged with my nails at the lock. I implored the colonel to let "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every details should find their way into the papers. Inspector "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain "VIOLET HUNTER." across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was breakfast." upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I meant." Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no such person." British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before "Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more. works. See paragraph 1.E below. with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such I held the little printed slip to the light. and would burst out of the house and tear about the garden with a "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her Our visitor collapsed into a chair, with a ghastly face and a hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous must compliment you." matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking "How can you tell that?" whatever might befall. handed it to him. posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project "'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?' he asked. Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his mistress? If the "DEAR MR. HOLMES:--I am very anxious to consult you as to whether push her way in, uttering very abusive expressions towards my photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would wife. Remember the card upon the bird's leg." It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its because she had spent so short a time in this country that she "I tell you that it is Friday, man. Your wife has been waiting Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in "Yes, he did." laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight his huge brown hands. the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined "The murder was done with it." word was no sooner out of my mouth than the whole crowd of be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever tell him that I know him to be innocent." look a credit to the Bow Street cells, does he?" He slipped his "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted nice household for a young lady." "There are three men waiting for him at the door," said Holmes. learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say disappearance of the bride.'" part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a their singular warning or token before them when starting upon whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away grinning at my surprise, was none other than Sherlock Holmes. He but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see status with the IRS. orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for