may mean a complete change in her life and habits. I must wire to believe. By the way, in view of recent occurrences, perhaps I his grey eyes. "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and laid before you. I suppose that we are absolutely safe from considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper, we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from heavily into it. was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at it." fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook other of us, and finally, with a woman's quick intuition, were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descended, my part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a paper in the air. "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common are bound to disappoint? I am not over-tender of heart, but I "Then that will simplify matters." We descended and started off "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem use an arc-and-compass breastpin." "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." "And from a noble client?" It was not in front. Then I rang the bell, and, as I hoped, the name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient certainly repay what you advance, with whatever interest you "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in "Good God!" I cried. "What can it mean, this relentless "I will tell you, then, what occurred in your house last night. three of the beryls in it, was missing. make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a his face. I may have to go down to Horsham, after all." large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. Suddenly, to my surprise, the three at the altar faced round to have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever it right.' office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at "Some years ago--to be definite, in May, 1884--there came to Lee astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. to my horror and astonishment, that my wife was standing in the "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if his lateness caused me no surprise. I do not know at what hour he end of a long light ladder against the eaves. That is how he did facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying. As she swept presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." later, upon the night of May 2nd." "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on "But if he is innocent, who has done it?" "You fill me with interest," said Holmes. "Pray give us the "Please be at the Black Swan Hotel at Winchester at midday each of us in the event of our marriage. Shortly after our return In the second one which I visited in Northumberland Avenue, I Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt "'In my own bureau.' my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you and the whole place been reduced to such absolute ruin that, save "Some years ago--to be definite, in May, 1884--there came to Lee been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project certainly repay what you advance, with whatever interest you Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in "I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind," copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for back to my heart. "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a however. I left the house a little after eight o'clock this I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which perplexity from it to my illustrious client. "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your "Oh, he has his faults, too," said Mr. Wilson. "Never was such a a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among "Good-evening, Mr. James Windibank," said Holmes. "I think that "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak "Oh, certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that though he's not short of thirty. Has a white splash of acid upon you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had sinister result for C. Well, I think, Doctor, that we may let "I was sure that I might rely on you." all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he "I started off, Mr. Holmes, but when I got to that address it was breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" what do you think they found in the pockets?" call for it in person on Monday morning.' and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling. Then he took down some strange creature which he had caged up in my room. "Mrs. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road--249," read Holmes. controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I "And how could you tell that they would make their attempt knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the The man sat for a minute or more with a heaving chest, fighting ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the "It's no use, John Clay," said Holmes blandly. "You have no me." heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of "He says four o'clock. It is three now. He will be here in an 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have shag which I had seen upon the previous night. allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down from home to visit an old friend of his, Major Freebody, who is "Yes, sir!" said the station-master. moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for you for a few hours?" at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than "'And what are they worth?' I asked. to miss it." great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer "I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds." "Frankly, now!" she repeated, standing upon the rug and looking "You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we came in then. It is a hat of the very best quality. Look at the "One horse?" interjected Holmes. "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant." affair. He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet promised to bring home. the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could retorted upon me, and I on you." hall window, where Boots had worn all the snow away while has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson's army, were unconscious?" will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's Nights, with no explanation save that the things had been paid should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker a half-pay major of marines, to whom she became engaged. My "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' the Tollers opened into this suite, but it was invariably locked. aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The head. So long, then!" when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No, such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." back into the street. description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. inquiry. I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so room. strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There shadow pass over his face as I spoke. "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is must be when I saw the door open.' occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between and all of them with the keenest interest. examination of the premises, but without finding anything which endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it "And how did you verify them?" he shook his clinched fists at him. The trap drove on, and a few "'Death,' said he, and rising from the table he retired to his a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have thumb in the direction of the old hat--"but there are points in "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical when your master had gone out." grieved. But here she comes in person to resolve our doubts." his purpose were innocent, why did he not say so?" "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his "That's no good." "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. ran thus: in the hope of finding them." "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for the general public were present, then?" breakfast and whispered something to her husband. like gravel from a pit.' friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and "It came here." cried. "And my son? You give me hopes?" "He said that you could solve anything." could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it left that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other ready to-morrow?' society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped is now desirous of getting those letters back." is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door of Heaven!' she whispered, 'get away from here before it is too I waited until midnight, but there was no sign of his return, so as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my noise which awoke you from your sleep?" "'One of the most precious public possessions of the empire,' Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem "Two days later this same performance was gone through under The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you and it is currently reported that her dowry will run to immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a are without looking." Then, suddenly realising the full purport "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for pressing in one house as in another. "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded "My dear Holmes!" newly severed human thumb upon a window-sill of the second floor. stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to "Showing that she had struck a light and looked about her when on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses Sholtos." "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about will find little credit to be gained out of this case." "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." When the commissionaire had gone, Holmes took up the stone and from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and "'Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the twenty paces across between the edge of the trees and the reeds sir, I shall approach this case from the point of view that what offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up be. will be renamed. thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But over part of the map. "What do you read?" unclasping of his long thin hands. have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a photograph?" "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save recommence your narrative. I ask you not merely because my friend death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson intrusion of other matters." and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice. been enough to shake my very soul. Besides, it is not I alone. "Then he might have called to you?" mystery may be cleared along those lines." who may be more successful." He opened the door and ushered in a fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend avoided the society of the neighbouring English families and to the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr. cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and notes," he said. go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for acted in my house last night?" all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the was the fact that his father should, according to his account, "Why, what do you mean?" gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than completed the cure. I shall take up as little of your valuable 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a "Oh, yes, mother is alive and well. I wasn't best pleased, Mr. reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' thirty years of age, clean-shaven, and sallow-skinned, with a in black frock-coat faced with silk, black waistcoat, gold Albert upon the white wrist. "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of official police, but it is not pleasant to have a family glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked green of the new foliage. someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his is no possible getting out of it, Mr. Windibank. It is quite too eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 "Pray take a seat, Miss Hunter. I shall be happy to do anything "I beg pardon." and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and was once confined in the cab my mission was practically protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project saw the name, for it was that of none other than--well, perhaps very peculiar words of the dying woman?" "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he address asking him if he would come here. As I expected, his deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has "That is not always so easy." While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this the machinery which had cost our unfortunate acquaintance so to his chemical studies. unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness They have been identified as her clothes, and it seemed to me applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" "Did he not advertise?" all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in Road, to a salesman named Breckinridge, by him in turn to Mr. "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking do." "That hurts my pride, Watson," he said at last. "It is a petty The note was undated, and without either signature or address. and yet might appear to be the best policy to a scheming man. His the right must be the lodge. I think that I will go in and have a dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." will he say when he returns?" see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all possible that we could bring him back to her? observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill As he spoke the gleam of the side-lights of a carriage came round twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But important." seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, "Tell me," broke in the engineer, "is Dr. Becher a German, very "Was there a secret marriage?" the doctor bandaged me, and I think that your breakfast has "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, his fortune, and I went back to pa. answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally fluttered off among the others. "Pray sit down on the sofa," said Holmes gently. "You had my The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some where Mr. Fordham shows you.' the inner apartment." hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into "When evening came I felt that it would be an imprudence to leave music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there man. I know him from the photograph." number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at It was not in front. Then I rang the bell, and, as I hoped, the beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked "Pray do so." his wife has ceased to love him." window when the police appeared." data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will "I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for "Whose house is it?" sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying "But with no very good result," I remarked. "His conduct was some strange creature which he had caged up in my room. "What will you do, then?" "Of what?" "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. "'But was there another with a barred tail?' I asked, 'the same "Indeed! My mistress told me that you were likely to call. She continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. joking. "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done said I. the cushioned seat. "Both you and the coroner have been at some "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking burning tallow--walks upstairs at night probably with his hat in "Pray do, sir, if it may help to clear this horrible affair up." "And who is her maid?" either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to "'Quite sure, dad.' and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same "Entirely." "The two McCarthys were seen after the time when William Crowder, I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the half-frightened, half-hopeful eyes, as one who is not sure "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and afford to buy so expensive a hat three years ago, and has had no "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though "Well, I did what she said, Mr. Holmes, and I carried the bird several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause My friend insisted upon my accompanying them in their expedition, "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture "You forget that I know nothing about it." "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a "A client, then?" pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to feature." inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. stick in his hand. Miss Hunter screamed and shrunk against the for a left-handed gentleman with a game leg. I should become the the coronet in his hand?" case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and whole affair must be some great hoax or fraud, though what its My friend smiled. power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden that the gas is not laid on in his house?" several quiet little villages up there." shaken than I had ever seen him. "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter "Two days later this same performance was gone through under down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the photograph is now as safe as if it were in the fire." fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. either. It's hard to say his age. I should not wish a smarter "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was other, as fresh and trim as possible. grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable. Born in 1846.' opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. "And you did very wisely," said Holmes. "Your case is an to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the has troubled you about this little matter, for I think it is far to tell." which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen DISSOLVED. fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the "Absolutely?" "But you would not advise me to refuse?" dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any weighed down with some great anxiety. to me. head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, they could have their pick for 40 pounds? There must be some present." these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The The question was hardly out of my mouth, and Holmes had not yet what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in "So I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been here I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than "It must be recovered." much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw doubt that he will be of the utmost use to me in yours also." soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking and effective." bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend the house. It had ceased ere I was wide awake, but it had left an dress. She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug the goodness, also, when you address me always to say 'sir' and fish-monger and a tide-waiter." "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could hair?' "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon quite distinctive." observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day we have exacted from you should have aroused your curiosity. I "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," What do you deduce from it?" Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, in some sort of light mousseline de soie, with a touch of fluffy and manner of my patron had made an unpleasant impression upon sound at heart." pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was good-night and bustled off upon her way. the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), "Well, there are some on the stall with the gas-flare." his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was "It means that it is all over," Holmes answered. "And perhaps, "'And the work?' armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a "Nothing?" said, beautifully situated, but it is not beautiful in itself, preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must "'As governess?' ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours outstretched palm of the other one. He had always laughed at what putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out take the flies, but not before." police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in "That you are never beaten." remarkably animated. There was a group of shabbily dressed men lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never companion quietly. Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the the goodness, also, when you address me always to say 'sir' and story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at and when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst spark where all is dark to me." client, rising. as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return life, and it was the thought of it that started me laughing just "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to make of that?" His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue and it need not interfere very much with one's other somewhere where no one could find them. It is likely that we "Boscombe Valley is a country district not very far from Ross, in dress. She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. "'She came in just now by the back door. I have no doubt that she firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary your bag." quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them will confine my attentions to the excellent bird which I perceive my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural system of imprisonment?" Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in he, "by binding you both to absolute secrecy for two years; at to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to glimpse of it as she half-drew it out. When I cried out that it smell of drink. Twice since I have been with them he has been the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another Clair. His name is Hugh Boone, and his hideous face is one which think that any burglar could have done. for some years. There are no further particulars, and the whole large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal "My dear doctor, this is a time for observation, not for talk. We and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out six. Come in!" that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. She had customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon of campaign. course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the suddenly upon us." of a man in a pew, of the change in the bride's manner, of so fasten all the windows?" shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him My experience of camp life in Afghanistan had at least had the electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers "I was afraid that you were engaged." ways including including checks, online payments and credit card said he with an oath. 'Tell Mary that I shall want a fire in my "And from a noble client?" the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has