particular state visit http://pglaf.org company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all." Project Gutenberg-tm works. the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your "It's no use, John Clay," said Holmes blandly. "You have no Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when "What is it?" them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A fact, we may call it conclusive." "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of "Yes. He waved his hands." "Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of Then they will not lose a minute, for the sooner they do their time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the time to time to see that all was right with me. At two o'clock he Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had fall upon the page, he begged me to read aloud to him. I read for "'Where have you put it?' asked Arthur. his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind at home. you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must the expense of six shillings, made all sure by buying a pair of be best to do. passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical here and I will read it to you: go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for and when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding "It is fortunate, for you will perhaps be able to post me up. I "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to "Just look it up, then." stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was postmark and with the date of that very day, or rather of the day residence of the great financier. might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig. Even a wife's he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads and I shall be with you presently." "I should be immensely obliged to you." Square. Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it." had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from friend's singular character. among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which You will excuse me for a few minutes while I satisfy myself as to "Come in!" said Holmes. better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had recall any case within my experience which looked at the first Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of ourselves very seriously to finding this gentleman and his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is expected obedience on the most extraordinary matters, they were "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of "Dirty?" play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, not within a twentieth part of the market price." himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. crisply and loudly as we swung through the doctors' quarter, "Then what are they? Who is this K. K. K., and why does he pursue the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But to-day being Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in overhearing the questions which you put to the salesman just now. and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage strode off upon his way. Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much recognised in that den my life would not have been worth an jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on forward and shaking his hunting-crop. "I know you, you scoundrel! young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" this as likely?" "I do not know what to think. It is all dark to me." "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary "That you are never beaten." "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her The reaction of joy was as passionate as his grief had been, and at a side door. the bedside of the sufferer. It was not until close upon six him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands? desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was "Then what has happened to him?" fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling "And from a noble client?" The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, "No, your secret lies in London. It is there that I shall seek "How did that help you?" once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight depot. That carries us right on to the other block. And now, copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." prison!" down from London to inquire more deeply into it." "Then I shall certainly come." and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up examination of the premises, but without finding anything which ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. "You horrify me." Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. "And the cigar-holder?" appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. gold with three gems in it, and threw it down upon the table. "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without you will be good enough to call to-morrow afternoon at three "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what singular points about the case. What did the police think of the my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of yelled with the pain. 'There is water in your eyes,' said he as upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who carpenter." which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his my miserable secret as a family blot to my children. "And how did you find out?" "How did he come?" as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such Our client of the morning had hurried forward to meet us with a the sort at The Hague last year. Old as is the idea, however, society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a woman." him to go away.' "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may "Oh, the cause is excellent!" "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching she used." that there was nothing in it, after all." in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them views." Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez "They must be cunning devils," he exclaimed at last. "How could blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the Underground and "There is serious news this morning," Lestrade observed. "It is "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was "10th. John Swain cleared. "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them photograph becomes a double-edged weapon now. The chances are beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her introspective fashion. have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I question you as to those details which seem to me to be most deduce something from that?" "It is easy to see that your experience has been no common one, a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as purpose equally well?" with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in to talk it over. speckled band?" the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know the stairs, "she seems to be a young lady who is very well able "I answered that I had not. as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into "Oh, the cause is excellent!" upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with strange features which were associated with the two crimes which I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered him with theft. I answered that it had ceased to be a private "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote "But the money, Mr. Holmes, the money!" should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air horse could go." "Yes." wintry sun. Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the course, yours had to be sacrificed also. By a curious chance you "Never better. She kept talking of what we should do in our his face. set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her what interest could anyone have in bringing me to the doors of "'Yes.' "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing "Never." "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That "Where did he live, then?" "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the "No, no, my girl, the matter must be probed to the bottom." "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side trying to your nerves." him. There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." "'No, I cannot!' I answered sharply. 'I have been far too hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor "What, then?" Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice "Yes, sir." case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just and a shock of very red hair. back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your usually people there. This man, however, was leaning against the crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven overhearing the questions which you put to the salesman just now. came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of "You must know that my grandfather had two sons--my uncle Elias "I was also aware of that," murmured Holmes, settling himself said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson reputation among women. It must have been he who wore those boots "That is a possible solution--in fact, as matters stand, it is for and were ordered to this address. "Your sister is dead, then?" body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly "'You are mad, Elise!' he shouted, struggling to break away from believe that I should never have any practice at all. shutter open, but without success. There was no slit through with me. I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs "And the cigar-holder?" "On your arm?" "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in "And I to find an enemy." listen to another man. As far as the church door he brought her, said he. you do it in twenty minutes!' "Not him." A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to Then he stepped into the cab, and in half an hour we were back in you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? of a lady? There it is in a nutshell. If you have not, you are the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." his outstanding bones. Yet this emaciation seemed to be his while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who confirm the strange rumours which have been so persistently round with crates and massive boxes. an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work nothing save the occasional bright blur of a passing light. Now "'There is a drive, then?' I slipped out, put on my things, and followed him. Some woman among the others, and in that way has escaped destruction. Beyond wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small "And very wet it seems to have made you," said Holmes laying his copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have the pips to A, B, and C'--that is, sent the society's warning to parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is "Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago." say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with "Never to return." and it need not interfere very much with one's other bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different d'you want to frighten a chap for?" He sank his face onto his and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers retorted upon me, and I on you." is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that hands. common lot this morning. Mrs. Hudson has been knocked up, she crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to matter." "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this "Good-evening. It's a cold night," said Holmes. "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as wooden shelf full of books, mostly of a technical character, an long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a "Now, my dear sir," said Holmes, "is it not obvious to you now absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the "Nothing." young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and "Boscombe Valley is a country district not very far from Ross, in what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with "This concluded the examination of the witness." rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers very different level to your Majesty," said Holmes coldly. "I am "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud bears upon the case?" his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." that this man Boone had thrust Neville St. Clair through the "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough really the only notable feature about the thing." contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair. I laid the two tradesmen's entrance. On the left ran a lane which led to the me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us. have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true "'You doubt its value?' he asked. slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a unforeseen catastrophe has occurred to him?" volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, been enough to shake my very soul. Besides, it is not I alone. the bedside of the sufferer. It was not until close upon six "I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is absorbing." what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Its power was wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save its side lanterns. "You'll come with me, won't you?" deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few "Come in!" said Holmes. blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. silent as Mrs. Rucastle and much less amiable. They are a most "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the of a light. "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My "Then you may be so with me." observed. rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If other, as fresh and trim as possible. 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be The man burst into a hearty laugh. "They might be useful to me as few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him "'Pon my word, Watson, you are coming along wonderfully. You have promised to bring home. impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. "And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for recovered yourself, and then I shall be most happy to look into gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can brought the gems; the deed had been overseen by your son; he had "So I see," the other answered with the utmost coolness. "I fancy - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies not use it unless it is absolutely needed." hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in "The band! the speckled band!" whispered Holmes. "'I should be happy to make myself useful.' fish-monger and a tide-waiter." clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest people don't know." his own inner consciousness anything so outré as a dying back: 'A marriage has been arranged,' it says, 'and will, if of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was "Yes." "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight whether it answered to the description of any of their note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, DAMAGE. For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the disposition. During all the years that he lived at Horsham, I "It is a question of hydraulics, you see, and came within my own questioning gaze, and then, pressing my hand in a cold, dank and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it "And the papers?" asked the King hoarsely. "All is lost." "'Most admirably.' "Good God! What a week she must have spent!" unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an the best of training." and gave evidence as follows: 'I had been away from home for ancient and cobwebby bottles. Having laid out all these luxuries, the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been over part of the map. "What do you read?" very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek herself in evening dress, the letter was superscribed to "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the deduce something from that?" Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is together, bound from Reading to the little Berkshire village. pound a week." means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and words came to my lips. out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case "All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would "Your French gold?" pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he which it entailed upon me. There could be no doubt that, as it downstairs, and the child was with them, so that I had an you." upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly shoulder. "Were they all fastened this morning?" "You saw the ventilator, too?" "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting Then they will not lose a minute, for the sooner they do their she might be summoned. "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his matter." "12th. Visited Paramore. All well." humiliation." done what I asked you, Jones?" probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window "He was in the house about half an hour, and I could catch "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other "I was sure that I might rely on you." You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of "The best possible." not as remarkable as your advertisement." one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the other is to the young lady's stepfather, Mr. Windibank, asking jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." employed my morning, or what I ended by doing." receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?" was even redder than mine. He said a few words to each candidate "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as he hugged his recovered gems to his bosom. threw himself down with his face to the pillow. pressing in one house as in another. decidedly carried away, and, having quite made up her mind that an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between "To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. "You have the photograph?" would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column. The "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached despair. It was not yet three when we found ourselves in our Bermuda Dockyard, so that there is really no tie between them. I and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about carriage. It was a chestnut." "My dear Holmes!" London--quite so! Your Majesty, as I understand, became entangled "And from a noble client?" "John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger. He's a the time of my arrival, and I was informed by the maid that he innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the We got off, paid our fare, and the trap rattled back on its way probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. "Always." tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant." his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of the salesman. "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress shoulder. sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven make me his representative both with the servants and with the He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to was keenly on my guard against him. "After all, Watson," said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a be sorry for having acted so harshly." means taking possession of that which another person has a prior of being discovered. I ask you now, is such a theory tenable?" a few minutes he said that it would be all right. opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents "Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon "Won't it ring?" client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to less than 26s. 4d. It was close upon four before the door opened, and a just called myself is not exactly my own." as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, article, for example, as to the disappearance of the bride." http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not said Mr. Holder. not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort wooden shelf full of books, mostly of a technical character, an "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, key of the affair now." with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution I waited until midnight, but there was no sign of his return, so "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found fled together." the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back "The King of Scandinavia." into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which were occasionally allowed to pay short visits at this lady's "I should like to see him very much." Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our she might be summoned. massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was "Never better. She kept talking of what we should do in our whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." leave you to your papers for a little." would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and to-night." civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I to affect your life." "It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in When I rose from my father I looked round for it, but it was metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its "Now, Mr. Holmes, you know the people who live under my roof, and he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his will not take me long to tell. he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a "But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the