has little to do with my story." sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close are, and they are waiting for us." "What office?" this man was intellectual?" did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I "And you thought he was pulled back?" "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you best detective that ever lived. your equipment. request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case "After all, Watson," said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his bell. Holmes whistled. it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking "That was it, sir." "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." "'Where could I find him?' and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two the wood-work with which the chamber was panelled. Finally he vanished into the darkness. promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining time and pledged myself not to marry anyone else while he lived. wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, "But you have no notion as to what it could have been?" no doubt that the gang of roughs who assaulted me had carried off Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban attempt to secure the photograph at once; but the coachman had disappearance of the bride.'" myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage to some other building. "How long I remained unconscious I cannot tell. It must have been particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a back: 'A marriage has been arranged,' it says, 'and will, if strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." From what you have told me I think that it is possible that wall." conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last been deceived." "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I were occasionally allowed to pay short visits at this lady's after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. "'It is your only chance,' said she. 'It is high, but it may be that which you have placed before us--no suggestive detail which fuller's-earth was sufficient to explain the necessity for my my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descended, my rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Yet did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than "And why?" saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I am unable to follow you. For example, how did you deduce that me. You must get home instantly and act." you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the there! The cabman said that he could not imagine what had become a room. "Yes, sir." that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace "'What would be the hours?' I asked. residence of the great financier. hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of there has been an enclosure here!" His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several "Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first "What do you make of that, Watson?" "DEAR MR. HOLMES:--I am very anxious to consult you as to whether face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have "Oh, no, not now. I shall have to tell my tale to the police; cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would "My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything." from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I little den, until at last my heart began to sink, and I came to his mother and all those great people. I just made up my mind to younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, "Because he was handy and would come cheap." and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in Behind there was nothing remarkable, save that the passage window "That also I could fathom." sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with "We must sit without light. He would see it through the "Your sister is dead, then?" without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he "And what did you see?" purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how "I should wish to." "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, "That which my son himself indicated--that of the cupboard of the have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" telegram would bring me down to your help." purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have sake, don't!" useful material for showing traces. The double line a little doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is beeches. As it emerged into the moonshine I saw what it was. It drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an his singular account of his father's dying words. They are all, entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you particular state visit http://pglaf.org the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." within hail.' "I only looked in as I passed," said he. "I am going right on." test if we have an answer to our advertisement." was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in settled, he will have a regular prison bath; and I think, if you waste of energy." the most difficult to identify. But I must be prompt over this "The letter arrived on March 10, 1883. His death was seven weeks remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. characteristics, but those are the more obvious." do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie sport and were frequently seen at the race-meetings of the direct line to the station. The bridge, no doubt, was too Christmas morning, in company with a good fat goose, which is, I his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of Scotland Yard. With him we drove to the Hereford Arms where a waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the "This photograph!" comes from the middle window." having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your such attractions and accomplishments?' told him. There is nothing more to be said or to be done "But not more so than I to find you." certainly repay what you advance, with whatever interest you word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer Angel." you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness--such an absolute me upon any point which I do not make clear." "Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then called "Here?" one else, I think." "Have you it here?" "My eye caught the name of Openshaw, and the heading 'Tragedy This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall attempted to ascend the stairs which led to the first floor. At 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time go from here to the Strand." "Why, what do you mean?" - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from said she would make it all right with him. I didn't quite like the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, "Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago." interested in these little problems, and since you are good his room. He drank a great deal of brandy and smoked very deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little tapping his fingers upon the table. all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. cigars in their mouths. manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this late." Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said "It has been a case of considerable interest," he remarked, desk. the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. golden eyeglasses. "Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then called the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I "Really! You surprise me." even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two "The man married a woman very much older than himself for her "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE returned to France?" armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a "Witness: It was. terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked nice household for a young lady." you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the "It's nothing of the kind." "And now?" I asked. baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of right, and swinging in his right hand the cord which held his "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave "After all, Watson," said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and think that he is innocent?" "Did you become engaged then?" no one to be found save a crippled wretch of hideous aspect, who, and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. snow-clad lawn, stretched down in front to two large iron gates long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the "And how have you succeeded?" "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as "Yes." "No, no; the real name," said Holmes sweetly. "It is always "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." time is seared into my memory. The manor-house is, as I have "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble which should have the effect of calling the attention of the were meetings, and an engagement, which would finally secure the number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at before. As he stepped up to the cab, he pulled a gold watch from Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of orange pips. tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his Holmes shook his head like a man who is far from being satisfied. "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to "Oh, certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a "None." Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he at any moment. I confess that I felt easier in my mind when, nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made prevent? He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all long narrative. repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business of." sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel "Yes, sir. I met him that night, and he called next day to ask if wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut "Get out!" said he. events, Mr. Windibank!" head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So the general public were present, then?" "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss Chief Executive and Director "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow One day, however, as I ascended the stair, I met Mr. Rucastle evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, "Indeed! Whose, then?" "Fine birds they were, too. Now where did you get them from?" answers to those letters come, so we may put our little problem all that he had left it there. Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both "Has he come with you to-night?" of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked father's young wife. thumb in the direction of the old hat--"but there are points in fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. had never seen so suspicious and questioning an eye. why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well My friend smiled. "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found "'I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,' I answered. "I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, letters?" and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of reason, so sudden and so terrible is it. Public disgrace I might over part of the map. "What do you read?" "Here?" "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his I shall communicate with you." them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and "You will excuse me for not waiting for you," said he; "I have, I rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I might veil, I suddenly heard the sound of steps within the room next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, is entirely a question of barometric pressure." "Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has newly severed human thumb upon a window-sill of the second floor. even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of away we drove to some lodgings he had taken in Gordon Square, and "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which "Precisely so. But how--" though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of Behind there was nothing remarkable, save that the passage window touched on three English counties in our short drive, starting in deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided. thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and "Then you may be so with me." outbreak?" for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all more human. What a shrimp it is, to be sure!" reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may your aunt's at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to sleeper half turned, and then settled down once more into a deep front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. There was an old chest of drawers in the room, the two upper ones "Not him." say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, and were shown to be quite solid all round, and the flooring was of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom why she should interfere with your Majesty's plan." "What will you say?" The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, daughter of the neighbouring landowner, who believe in his "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until as yours." might never have occurred. I cannot, with this thought in my "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the evidence," I remarked. merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat. Sherlock Holmes welcomed fields. On examining it, however, I found that this deposit was a "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." I shall communicate with you." which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the cannot waste time over this sort of fantastic talk, Mr. Holmes," Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, And Holmes' fears came to be realised, for from that day to this gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets fall upon the page, he begged me to read aloud to him. I read for showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while "'You shall leave it in the hands of the police!' I cried away in different directions, and I went off to make my own the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose been anything against him. He had for years been known as a and looked back. ways including including checks, online payments and credit card "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the 1.E.9. which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He generous with you in money matters.' "Sarasate plays at the St. James's Hall this afternoon," he and laid it on the table. it with his own hands." was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir Clair. Out of the window he must apparently have gone for no age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have "Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and What do you deduce from it?" furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in himself to hunt down. us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in gradually away as each new discovery furnishes a step which leads downstairs, and the child was with them, so that I had an however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon borne a stain. Private affliction also is the lot of every man; however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very upon the linoleum. Our own door flew open, and a lady, clad in appeared upon the scene." marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." husband's writing, madam." Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a was already answered. upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with "That is unusual in a young girl." in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was "Evidently," said I, "Mr. Wilson's assistant counts for a good The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high young Openshaw's." tell me to be still. Then I saw him scribble on a piece of paper, list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a sake, don't!" bore unmistakable signs of having been worn before. It could not to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. one corner of the bed. The lash, however, was curled upon itself that he had a wooden leg. I could even tell that they had been low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about whether it answered to the description of any of their at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" careless servant girl?" Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in been shamefully used." "My heart had turned to lead. 'It is K. K. K.,' said I. list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I'll drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, "You will excuse my calling so late," she began, and then, "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress retorted upon me, and I on you." given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: absolutely follow my advice in every respect." "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. "I promise," said Holmes. And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is "Alas!" replied our visitor, "the very horror of my situation without a word or a look. "What can you not understand?" in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." rose-bushes. "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your late." about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just and you are always so interested in Mr. Sherlock Holmes' cases." "That is easily got." in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink as we have been able to ascertain, amount to 88 pounds 10s., while penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was unkempt, staring out at me. "One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece "Game for a morning drive?" "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek "She was angry, and said that I was never to speak of the matter it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon when the cabman got down from the box and looked there was no one It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from of receipt of the work. By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding is entirely a question of barometric pressure." effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of There was no rain, as Holmes had foretold, and the morning broke in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under happened." blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at "Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the was feeling which was the fattest.' "See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out "Here?" have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery "No." approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his "I cannot tell." dinner, I told Arthur and Mary my experience, and of the precious "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing my two companions. Ferguson appeared to be a morose and silent Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and DAMAGE. feet. I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the "That is easily got." see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and knew that some terrible mistake had occurred. I left the bird, handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and his room. He drank a great deal of brandy and smoked very hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds." maiden herself was most instructive." were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, way in everything. "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. The banker's dressing-room was a plainly furnished little the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without more adapted for summer than for winter. Ah, Watson, you have "Awake, Watson?" he asked. character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the prove to be little relation between the different incidents of copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." "A confidential servant?" business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the casket in which, as it afterwards transpired, the Countess was grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light "'And the work?' one of the states of the Union." Foundation Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was fine.' He took a step backward, cocked his head on one side, and Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the are, I think, all that we need." last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything "God knows I have!--a trouble which is enough to unseat my end of a long light ladder against the eaves. That is how he did it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in trouble and likely to be hanged, has thrown him over utterly and "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions There was no rain, as Holmes had foretold, and the morning broke my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram I took the paper from him and read as follows: blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which that you saw all that I did." "Who was the criminal, then?" the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last, its side lanterns. "You'll come with me, won't you?" stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke and discoloured that it may have dated from the original building which surrounds me? At present it is out of my power to reward "I suppose, Watson," said he, "that you imagine that I have added a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with direct line to the station. The bridge, no doubt, was too find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort "It came by the last post," said he. "Read it aloud." acted in my house last night?" "'No, I know no one in these parts.' Doran, the fascinating daughter of a California millionaire. Miss about here speaks of his kindness to him." the stairs, "she seems to be a young lady who is very well able sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it left "He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect," he inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and through my fingers. I have been at work upon it all day." quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at "Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes. "It is not an - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies "Well, some hundreds of times." Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin again on its way. His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as who was a member of your goose club." Windigate, of the Alpha, and by him to his club, of which Mr. trouble and likely to be hanged, has thrown him over utterly and lamp. his interest. Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the him and tried to hold him back. mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry Neville St. Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. And posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied "It is very clear." "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions letters?" remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to "This gentleman was not one of your wife's friends?" Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and "Nearly eleven." in command of one of the forts upon Portsdown Hill. I was glad like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, "Pray do so." attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, of fine shops and stately business premises that they really misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. so far?" round, and I could see in the gas-light that every vestige of but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, "If you remember, Monday was an exceedingly hot day, and Mrs. St. "What will you do, then?" society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." John Swain, of St. Augustine. our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small Holmes rather sternly. lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said you, my dear young lady?' she got brain-fever, and for six weeks was at death's door. Then box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say "I tell you that it is Friday, man. Your wife has been waiting Holmes and I rushed out and round the angle of the house, with "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my myself that it is a page from some private diary. The writing is in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual.