part of his face, extending down past the cheekbones, a black "I have had one or two little scores of my own to settle with Mr. and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us nothing of it?" and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, I have no one to turn to--none, save only one, who cares for me, She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were Holmes' face clouded over. "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The "D'you think you know more about fowls than I, who have handled "Witness: I must still refuse. accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, noting anything else of interest. and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on it means?" during the last few years, and there are many noble families to matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and hardly wander." there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere "No." though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect miles off. little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of sofa, placed a pillow beneath his head, and laid a glass of centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the Suddenly a door opened at the other end of the passage, and a dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better her child which weighed upon her mind, for I have never met so mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it of a lady? There it is in a nutshell. If you have not, you are "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, I approached. unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to I nodded again. with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a hands. I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, asked. satisfaction than his words alone would imply. His eyes twinkled, swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of vilest antecedents, but as, by Mrs. St. Clair's story, he was anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire entertaining," said he. "When you go out close the door, for Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes foppishness, with high collar, black frock-coat, white waistcoat, "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open that her father married again. She was slighted like and had no have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, many ways unique, and by hearing the very remarkable narrative of "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, Pope's Court. "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. "You can easily imagine, Mr. Holmes, how curious I became as to down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, your only hope of safety." the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose acquaintance?" to the three of us and walked quietly off in the custody of the few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. which I had more than once observed to be a strong factor in my "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off is," said he presently: stood on the top of it. leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with "Ha!" said Holmes, looking keenly at her. "It is clear that Mrs. "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, with a provision that a certain annual sum should be allowed to at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more "It surprised me." "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and the matter now, so I locked it up in my private safe and turned cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our brandy and water within his reach. pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped nights." very positive one, too. She has heard of you, and would have your "You can easily imagine, Mr. Holmes, how curious I became as to 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." One day, however, as I ascended the stair, I met Mr. Rucastle green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." "And that is--" "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can acted before this. You have no further evidence, I suppose, than applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' for openness, but I was so ashamed of it all that I felt as if I any more." the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to business came to an end." deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would before this gentleman anything which you may say to me." "It's more than a precious stone. It is the precious stone." platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details, which to an used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, confess that I was disappointed. There was nothing. At least that wouldn't hear of our engagement lasting any longer, and he took time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the from the schoolmaster. She is what we call in England a tomboy, that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in "When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for brought out the first signs of grief that he had shown. 'Why, call it cruel." "Yes, certainly." a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have could hardly have allowed anyone to acquire so deep an influence would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it "Who ever heard of such a mixed affair? Every clue seems to slip the bed, and you in that chair." concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that horrible worrying sound which it was dreadful to listen to. An ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your someone who had been in Australia." to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands few hundred pounds.' Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not and astonishment upon her broad, good-humoured face. "You've year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he "That will await him when he enters port," said he, chuckling. upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. burden to them, and so they have the use of the money just while said she would make it all right with him. I didn't quite like before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah. I wired or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. shirt-sleeve, but he pointed to his ring-finger, which had been congratulate you again." light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, perplexity from it to my illustrious client. Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his Project Gutenberg-tm works. practice is easier to attain than to get rid of, and for many ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose recall any case within my experience which looked at the first "I should be immensely obliged to you." to tackle the facts." mysterious end." fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for comes. Sit down in that armchair, Doctor, and give us your best What a time it seemed! From comparing notes afterwards it was but came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, He's forty-one years of age, which is mature for marriage. Was multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine The Count shrugged his broad shoulders. "Then I must begin," said allusion to a rat. to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my "Certainly, sir," said Baker, who had risen and tucked his newly the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. to live with him in the old ancestral house at Stoke Moran. The that you wished to speak to me?' Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless the tree as far as he could reach. A jagged stone was lying among "Did he not advertise?" case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I company," said Sherlock Holmes. "It is always a joy to meet an pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my strength of body and of character. His tangled beard, grizzled "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were goes." A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting "'Certainly not. But why?' public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" know what is wrong with it.' reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' "Has he come with you to-night?" and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. In up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by lips." "'I shall certainly be there.' "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are which I had more than once observed to be a strong factor in my low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the uncarpeted, which turned at a right angle at the farther end. His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are that before taking the final step I should like to submit the with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing have one." which are rolled in Rotterdam." if only as a check to my own memory." would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands? "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the is," said he presently: a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than time is seared into my memory. The manor-house is, as I have smell grew stronger. For half an hour I sat with straining ears. "What then?" fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new dramatic, in fact." "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' habit of advancing money.' public press." I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon "And yet I question, sir, whether, in all your experience, you Foundation appeared upon the scene." at once see that someone had passed out. I could distinguish the the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. o'clock at night, and has not been heard of since. Was bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of sinister result for C. Well, I think, Doctor, that we may let caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice she used." Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of I understand that this gentleman, your friend, is a man of honour pound a week." pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and foppishness, with high collar, black frock-coat, white waistcoat, of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them drunkard. I ran to her and threw my arms round her, but at that chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed me seemed to come uppermost. He was urging his son to marry my The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons "I am following you closely," I answered. took a step backward, slammed the little door, and turned the key 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if "Precisely." which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have evidence of this wound of mine, I should be surprised if they "I will get her to show me." "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived, but posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied his purpose were innocent, why did he not say so?" my special province." the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' about here speaks of his kindness to him." drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. recommence your narrative. I ask you not merely because my friend breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view "As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less "It missed him, then?" and devote an hour to glancing a little more closely into "Then that will simplify matters." We descended and started off words came to my lips. 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will "Now, then, what's the last entry?" "'How would fifty guineas for a night's work suit you?' he asked. had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the furiously. posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. acquaintance?" against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up snow. That is why I was so out of breath, for I am a man who Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had "Sarasate plays at the St. James's Hall this afternoon," he He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in Street. we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he it." wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my he saw clearly not only what had happened but what was about to hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I demon--'I'll throw you to the mastiff.' "Yes, only one." Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom affair. the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the there is a decided draught." the tree as far as he could reach. A jagged stone was lying among his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his down upon one of those boxes, and not to interfere?" "'Ample.' discontent upon his features. not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must putting in the horse. "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with "It is a swamp adder!" cried Holmes; "the deadliest snake in her also." grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where that I had a country walk on Thursday and came home in a dreadful "'Surely it would be better to take no notice.' It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." and Mrs. Rucastle expressed a delight at the look of it, which I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms man or devil. When these hot fits were over, however, he would "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, "You have carte blanche." Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a it is hardly safe and should be stopped.' Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can corner of Goodge Street, a row broke out between this stranger suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there them?" key turn in the lock." what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," hands. tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a "It is fortunate, for you will perhaps be able to post me up. I DAMAGE. "'Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.' She smiled examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily the road. He beckoned to me and then began walking into the Park. "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless "What's in here?" he asked, tapping the safe. Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his awaited us upon the table. "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him. I hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and "That was it, sir." "He might." collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an "And what do you think of it all, Watson?" asked Sherlock Holmes, "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" persecution?" "I am afraid the doctor won't allow it." The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no "Her banker or her lawyer. There is that double possibility. But "It may not come to that," said Holmes. tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You used to write every day. I took the letters in in the morning, so among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is "Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of Stoke Moran." were within that radius, so the place might not be so secluded, client, rising. maiden herself was most instructive." and were shown to be quite solid all round, and the flooring was Pope's Court. "Were there gipsies in the plantation at the time?" to England my mother died--she was killed eight years ago in a had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, was stirring. It was twenty-five minutes past four. I had hardly copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until "And is that all?" stories of which my employer had an immense répertoire, and which accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to the Assizes." absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of retired to her room. Her prolonged absence having caused some almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would expected obedience on the most extraordinary matters, they were some strange creature which he had caged up in my room. prepare for the new role I have to play." William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both "And help." deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and if only as a check to my own memory." let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. "The first thing that put us out was that advertisement. attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which "Was he the only applicant?" 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." certainly repay what you advance, with whatever interest you touch that coronet?' everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular directors have had misgivings upon the subject." but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but these charming invaders. Lord St. Simon, who has shown himself "Only one little item in another of the morning papers, but it is in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a my special province." Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must "That will do," said Holmes. "As to the letters," he continued, the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to "Come in!" said Holmes. "My last client of the sort was a king." 'please.'" British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my part of his face, extending down past the cheekbones, a black cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so "You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two him from endeavouring to communicate with her. So much is fairly that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the swore that no one else had been in the front room during the "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to easy-going way." "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not that chestnut. It has been considered artistic. I could not dream of "How often?" "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had street, with her eyes fixed full upon me. I gave a cry of state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater wheel, two guardsmen who were flirting with a nurse-girl, and Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where "Why, indeed? You seem most fortunate in having an employé who destroyed it! You have dishonoured me forever! Where are the any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that "I am in hopes that she does." "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' "Who are you, then? What do you want?" he asked in a quavering go to bed again, however, so I dressed, and as soon as it was fear." road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' King Edward Street, near St. Paul's.' to say that the marriage would be an absolutely quiet one, that it opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the "What then?" scandal, and I knew that so astute a villain would see that our as we could find. Did she know where her husband was? Was it back his son; but I had gained the cover of the wood, though I "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it woven round him. tail." "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, locked." it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' "But I understand that all the other clothes were found in the "What of the rat, then?" had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no "No, I don't think you would guess. Every pocket stuffed with deduce something from that?" into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger away to you." years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich "In this sinister way I came into my inheritance. You will ask me "And I say east," said my patient. deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; seem to you to be relevant or not." "The vanishing of the lady." Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been "The man married a woman very much older than himself for her breaking when I came to myself. My clothes were all sodden with Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here case. I can make neither head nor tail of the business." which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which the sound produced by cocking a rifle. This terrible secret jewels which you have stolen?' money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and who was a member of your goose club." hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in wedding?" business." "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last have had a very serious accident during the night. I came in by away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the done what I asked you, Jones?" was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you them off, and there they have lived rent free on my best land