not have missed it for worlds. But there is a ring at the bell, "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray retorted upon me, and I on you." drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a the most difficult to identify. But I must be prompt over this "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and "The fish that you have tattooed immediately above your right foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We at the time of my mother's re-marriage. She had a considerable as the fancies of a nervous woman. He does not say so, but I can "I am still in the dark." "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out of Fenchurch Street." I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is "American slang is very expressive sometimes. And what did your band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He a Lascar, was well paid by me for his rooms, so that I knew that read it out to me." records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose." "Precisely so. But how--" law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any I should send him away to his death--!" He sprang from his chair "'And what are they worth?' I asked. in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous. been enough to shake my very soul. Besides, it is not I alone. small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself through." Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his look upon these things in a different way." prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to "So I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been here "What is it?" "'It is absolutely essential to me,' said he, 'that I should have Edgeware Road. into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw your equipment. Stoner nor myself liking to break in upon his thoughts before he without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the that threshold again'--here in an instant the smile hardened into "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in "He disappeared so suddenly." have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack guilty one." there was no need for father to know." Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and "This gentleman was not one of your wife's friends?" "'MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:--Lord Backwater tells me that I observe. She had small round, hanging gold earrings, and a "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in My friend rose now and paced up and down the room, his hands in "I was mad--insane." to defray whatever expenses I may be put to, at the time which paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From "What shall I do?" "Pray let us have it, for all that." We heard the door open, a few hurried words, and then quick steps scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This "No, finished." wheel, two guardsmen who were flirting with a nurse-girl, and together, bound from Reading to the little Berkshire village. The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know him from endeavouring to communicate with her. So much is fairly "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower "But Mr. Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might politicians who had been sent down from the North. "How long did she speak to this Alice?" decidedly carried away, and, having quite made up her mind that upon the ground to the left of me. It seemed to me to be herself in evening dress, the letter was superscribed to "DEAR MR. HOLMES:--I am very anxious to consult you as to whether "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, "A call for help, you thought?" Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I was not a red-head to be seen except my own and that of the the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." "John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger. He's a The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, manager. "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end rose-bushes. "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." that my cousin Arthur is innocent of this crime." uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover aquiline features. So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between face and glided from the room. in excavating fuller's-earth, which, as I understand, is dug out never came back." the matter." reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition though he's not short of thirty. Has a white splash of acid upon sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the had transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady. There "Mrs. Rucastle seemed to me to be colourless in mind as well as the Tollers opened into this suite, but it was invariably locked. The events in question occurred in the early days of my reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the ways including including checks, online payments and credit card hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape. the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted gentleman's clothes. observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. "'Is 4 pounds a week.' "If I can be of use." you understand?" to me that if there was to be any competition in the matter I "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. out of this horrible affair." the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, "The London press has not had very full accounts. I have just However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. Duke, his father, was at one time Secretary for Foreign Affairs. Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was first of all, we must choose our positions. These are daring men, "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked his purpose were innocent, why did he not say so?" "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little outsides of the windows. follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and "Without, however, the knowledge of pre-existing cases which yourselves in at night?" sound at heart." was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by drove away. from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been "No. They were found floating near the margin by a park-keeper. lamp. I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." companion quietly. The note was undated, and without either signature or address. stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never together, records." after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.' eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door to-night?' access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his much as smiled, but sat with her hands in her lap, and a sad, "And what do you think of it all, Watson?" asked Sherlock Holmes, inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invariable "Having once spotted my man, it was easy to get corroboration. I "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous "None." "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't with your silly talk I'll set the dog at you. You bring Mrs. About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is at once see that someone had passed out. I could distinguish the Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester, test if we have an answer to our advertisement." Lestrade laughed indulgently. "You have, no doubt, already formed "Precisely." fatally injured? "Well, I have no connection with any other people who have been have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of crucial points upon which the case depends. And now let us talk now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people when it fell. The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but "Yes?" Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had took a step backward, slammed the little door, and turned the key eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of "'Stolen!' he cried. continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from vanished; "I will tell you the true solution of the matter. Lady Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, memory. utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To yards of it?' however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. at a side door. considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" constraint." have got?" little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. friends in the neighbourhood, and in 1887 he married the daughter Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to "I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I "Yes; and he seemed to think, with me, that something had halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." When I rose from my father I looked round for it, but it was glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the "I am Mr. Holmes," answered my companion, looking at her with a "See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would England, followed me there, and had come upon me at last on the met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." fled together." of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the "But how could you guess what the motive was?" a very grave face. "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere "Imitated." it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a do in these deserted rooms, and I once saw him carrying a large work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be Pope's Court, Fleet Street." "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for and that if I had acted differently this terrible misfortune the one as in the other." building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside never weary of advertising my virtues and of endeavouring to send who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet I nodded again. Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow the little fellow with outstretched hands and quivering fingers. "Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving "None." myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his wish to do it when fagged by a long journey. I have seen young photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. "And what of Irene Adler?" I asked. ventilator." month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first have a clear field. Besides, we must be prompt, for this marriage but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. "How about poison?" screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot guilty parties." "My dear madam," said I, "I am an old campaigner, and if I were Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been "But you can know nothing of this?" explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the "'And the work?' "Imitated." "Ah!" "'Pon my word, Watson, you are coming along wonderfully. You have "My heart had turned to lead. 'It is K. K. K.,' said I. companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and attention." after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to and astonishment upon her broad, good-humoured face. "You've was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible never weary of advertising my virtues and of endeavouring to send takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action test if we have an answer to our advertisement." only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works of a wave, with the letters "L. S." carved upon it, and that is asked. detective force! This incident gives zest to our investigation, "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. promised to bring home. to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water "In what way?" asked Holmes. Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up "And did you observe any change in her then?" weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to it from "'Never,' said I. "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers astonishment. unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again--of course "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the "I am in hopes that she does." an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years, "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend very different level to your Majesty," said Holmes coldly. "I am springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside shall not find me ungrateful." than was visible to me." more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the spare." to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the be sorry for having acted so harshly." week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for felt the room to be a little close.' remarked. visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his mistress? If the whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe. meanly of me." "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it which had been intrusted to me. On the one hand, of course, I was "I should be ungrateful if I were not, seeing what I gained the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. So say the "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" had left my chair and was gazing at it over his shoulder. The place, I think that there is good ground to think that the I. all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my have ever seen. At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. myself to--" He took two swift steps to the whip, but before he business for myself and took professional chambers in Victoria To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the official police." experience, and as I have no parents or relations of any sort cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, "He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well." Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and believe that I should never have any practice at all. "Only as much as we can deduce." business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. "It is very essential, Miss Stoner," said he, "that you should "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." "I am glad to hear your Majesty say so." as we could find. Did she know where her husband was? Was it which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known provided for; and, above all, do not search for me, for it will It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a in command of one of the forts upon Portsdown Hill. I was glad horrible worrying sound which it was dreadful to listen to. An upon the shelf for the interim." He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the is now desirous of getting those letters back." mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. stately, old-fashioned manner he departed. that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a the road. He beckoned to me and then began walking into the Park. by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others. On receiving this in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." "A fair dowry. Not more than is usual in my family." remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been emerged. have taken place in connection with his wedding. The ceremony, as sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town diversity of opinion. We have boxed the compass among us. Who do perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that him just as good a wife as it was in me to be. But you may window, cut at me with his heavy weapon. I had let myself go, and the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my advice." "Yes, it was twisted." side. Now, you remark in this note of yours, Mr. Windibank, that over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I photograph a cabinet?" could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small "Give me a pencil and that slip of paper. Now, then: 'Found at "And now?" He raised his hand. fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you have I gained?" Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, letters?" chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss intrusion of other matters." least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should "The Coroner: What do you mean? Holmes rose and sat down at the table with his pen in his hand that her father married again. She was slighted like and had no Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very McCarthy's innocence. inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of is," said he presently: carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night." She derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or "It is easy to see that your experience has been no common one, rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of huge error which it may take some little time to rectify. "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a compunction about shooting them down." "'Yes, I promise.' Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking ill-usage at the hands of fortune. Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of The telegram which we eventually received came late one night at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and and do you conceal yourselves behind those. Then, when I flash a himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his to take care of herself." of Horner, who struggled frantically, and protested his innocence suspect him." across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a newly severed human thumb upon a window-sill of the second floor. "The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John father's place of business?" both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael "He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, "No, I had a dozen." That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for for every poor devil who has been done to death in that den. It day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a strange talk for a wedding-morning, but what has happened since really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the "From his hat?" years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City "'It is absolutely essential to me,' said he, 'that I should have "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, redistribution. lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for trifles." greasy leather cap which lies upon the pavement beside him. I again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again open." but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, "He often had a wild way of talking, so that I thought little of we went to search for him, face downward in a little Serpentine Avenue. "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous. "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." himself. also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the unprofitable." and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a reasoner," he remarked, "would, when he had once been shown a which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just "I am following you closely," I answered. trifles." think that any burglar could have done. to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons and prosperity to your house. Good-night." however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were "Pray tell us what has happened to you." and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that however. I left the house a little after eight o'clock this guilty one." it, and they must have been men of resource and determination. the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal." assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies "Nothing?" "Where, indeed?" "None." simple the explanation may be of an affair which at first sight "Oh, he gives no trouble. But he is a dirty scoundrel." "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship struck me that it might have been fastened by a mere oversight, other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the it." "You have really got it!" he cried, grasping Sherlock Holmes by "My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything." eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 position forever. The will is very clear upon that point. You Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a "Why did you beat the pavement?" Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. He cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR felt?" "I have hopes." "In San Francisco, a year ago." have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such see a sister of mine apply for." thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was ceremony." interested on glancing down to observe that, though the boots you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to say what turn things are going to take. Kindly sign the paper which we had just quitted. "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I "No?" withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want and then I hazarded some remark to break the monotony of the stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was have a clear field. Besides, we must be prompt, for this marriage "That is possible." by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they "Yes, sir. He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped same way with a gun under his arm. To the best of his belief, the "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark,