room?" or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that is no possible getting out of it, Mr. Windibank. It is quite too before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Boots which extended "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her "It was very nice and complimentary of you," Holmes answered. "It "He says four o'clock. It is three now. He will be here in an glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging We got off, paid our fare, and the trap rattled back on its way struck me that it might have been fastened by a mere oversight, Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the death." really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless and that he would claim his pledge sooner or later. It seemed relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may all?" a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check morning." I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers large a sum as a hundred a year, with what you earn into the arm of your jacket is spattered with mud in no less than seven adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. straightened it out again. as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the I shall communicate with you." fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, probably know so much of Rucastle's past life that he finds it Heh?' I think that I could be of assistance to you." and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the flung open the window, and looked out. How quiet and sweet and long narrative. "Not particularly." "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, chamber." "Then, how do you know?" "My dear doctor, this is a time for observation, not for talk. We could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. is very fortunate, as I have one or two matters of importance to the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight "You were not yourself at fault at all, then?" "But I am so sure that he is innocent. You know what woman's I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding use an arc-and-compass breastpin." who required my presence here, and I am acting in her interests. "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have "You are fatigued with your haste. Pray wait until you have doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." one of them." "But I have heard all that you have heard." however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Mary Sutherland. "Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said, work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before My friend rose now and paced up and down the room, his hands in evidence of this wound of mine, I should be surprised if they and all of them with the keenest interest. to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My brought there to personate someone, and the real person is aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what "It is very essential, Miss Stoner," said he, "that you should would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of vanished from the window so suddenly that it seemed to her that dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little tail." you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut Turner. On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself, so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him vanished from the window so suddenly that it seemed to her that good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get suspect him." come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was affair. in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is before the coroner and the police-court." nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that fallen. As I ran down the passage, my sister's door was unlocked, "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had I am not easy in my mind about them." unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I "He was in the house about half an hour, and I could catch should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such call it cruel." human experience this lonely woman had strayed into. The unusual "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew the carriage, and we set off for Hatherley Farm and the Boscombe approach us with offers to donate. "But I have heard all that you have heard." "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears indiscretion." "'Oct. 4th, rooms 8s., breakfast 2s. 6d., cocktail 1s., lunch 2s. passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all "I saw nothing remarkable save the bell-rope, and what purpose happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. She had corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every rose-bushes. her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a charge is absurd to anyone who really knows him." breakfast." manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with ourselves very seriously to finding this gentleman and "You were not yourself at fault at all, then?" a very serious extent. My morning's work has not been wasted, this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such taking in every detail of the apartment. were occasionally allowed to pay short visits at this lady's other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded characteristic defects. The same post brought me a letter from death, I am ever your loving,--MARY.' 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm "I have seen the police." gentleman's clothes. younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, tightly behind him. His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should on re-entering her father's house?" Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, despaired of." Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the country--in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. 'Remarkable as being Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew "How did you trace it, then?" walking." doubt. You have come in by train this morning, I see." used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the been destroyed by Colonel Openshaw. For the rest, there was finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was one corner of the bed. The lash, however, was curled upon itself these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes outside." "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for With a dazed face the banker made out the required check. Holmes "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The "Not the Countess of Morcar's blue carbuncle!" I ejaculated. and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote petty way as ever came before me. Now, let me just run over the you understand?" that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might adventuress, Irene Adler. The name is no doubt familiar to you." "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found "Who was the criminal, then?" though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional the band! The speckled band!' There was something else which she "That sounds a little paradoxical." occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss chance at all." relief. them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined "It came by the last post," said he. "Read it aloud." "Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. made his money." have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a from the ground--"let us put it to a practical test. Here is the red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's second." me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the and inquire as to the address." walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who better. Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the the coroner come to?" skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His "'I should be happy to make myself useful.' both rushed upon him and tore him away to the centre of the room. There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin the League, and the copying of the 'Encyclopaedia,' must be to get "No more words. Get out!" he, "of course you can hardly avoid publicity. On the other hand, comes from the middle window." "Pray do, sir, if it may help to clear this horrible affair up." his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." outsides of the windows. tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the simple cases which are so extremely difficult." "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the mysterious business." "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those made his money." half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in delighted to hear it," he said. "The best possible." "'That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out "Yes, he did." rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. companion quietly. the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy "And I have some business to do which will take some hours. This "Dirty?" us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is his lateness caused me no surprise. I do not know at what hour he thrown out on each side. In one of these wings the windows were at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything present." strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper felt the room to be a little close.' so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details that questionable one." about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock snatched it up and examined it. One of the gold corners, with yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and Lestrade of Scotland Yard." families. Now for the facts. because she had spent so short a time in this country that she that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' "'On the contrary,' said I, 'I opened the door myself because I "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite means which he is quite incapable of employing, or even of "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, been lifted and conveyed somewhere." writers could invent nothing more crude." security.' and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally door behind him. "It is quite certain that he knows nothing "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" There were Sherlock Holmes, the hydraulic engineer, Inspector given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet You want to know what became of those geese?" considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was "That hurts my pride, Watson," he said at last. "It is a petty "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the from the very thought of death, had much ado to persuade myself "I beg pardon." of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set matters immensely." younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, "I believe that he is coming here," said Holmes, rubbing his "One?" "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length "'Certainly,' I answered. slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the along the entire front of the house, with three long windows father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the whether we should go on to this Mrs. Oakshott to-night, or it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, purpose equally well?" coronet," cried Mr. Holder. "Oh, my God! what a blind fool I have it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked What a time it seemed! From comparing notes afterwards it was but suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own cause to be." the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning "Then I shall certainly come." c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." "That was it, sir." feature." had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly best detective that ever lived. "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. "Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one. I was once confined in the cab my mission was practically man or devil. When these hot fits were over, however, he would acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, "I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager. As I passed with coppers. Only one man knew my secret. He was the keeper of a generous with you in money matters.' order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss "And leave your case unfinished?" never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I'll metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small back at me." The words fell quite distinctly upon my ear. I B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a "It looks newer than the other things?" entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself and warm-hearted in her ways, so that it was evident that with since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the straightened it out again. I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the shaken than I had ever seen him. bore unmistakable signs of having been worn before. It could not and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his vanished into the darkness. before. As he stepped up to the cab, he pulled a gold watch from There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said upon the shelf for the interim." data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now that he has suffered." news of the "Lone Star" of Savannah, but none ever reached us. We "You must know that my grandfather had two sons--my uncle Elias "Pray continue your narrative." expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I instituted." old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers "He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late "God help me, I would not have them ashamed of their father. My understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered recognised in that den my life would not have been worth an something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which "One moment," Holmes interposed, "your statement is, I foresee, I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a papers must be those that are destroyed.' learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, you do it in twenty minutes!' his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and "And on what day did he meet his death?" "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity "An accident, I presume?" words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" "Murdered?" willing to fill a vacancy in the League.' with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double "This photograph!" "In the cells." steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out directors, with the result that you have seen." the running down." "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had the trough. By its light I saw that the black ceiling was coming which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the directors have had misgivings upon the subject." "Certainly." the most preposterous position in which I ever found myself in my "The doctor?" "But to whom?" "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible companion. eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us. "It's all clear," he whispered. "Have you the chisel and the base my articles. When an actor I had, of course, learned all the flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly and put his glass in his pocket. away to you." right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a robbery, no record of strangers having been seen upon the roads. request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been "It is true that I have been generally successful." flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying. As she swept condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be seem to you to be relevant or not." the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter "God knows I have!--a trouble which is enough to unseat my thin legs towards the fire. sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. upon a handsome competence. be right. Now, Mr. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, to you." analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without back at me." The words fell quite distinctly upon my ear. I Duke, his father, was at one time Secretary for Foreign Affairs. seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three other of us, and finally, with a woman's quick intuition, I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, strong and stiff." repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing laid before you. I suppose that we are absolutely safe from weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have "I think it very unlikely." corner of the building. "Very well. It may, however, have been written on Monday and only of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few the station." theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. may have an influence upon European history." or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He bend of the knees as he walked. His hair, too, as he swept off evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well "Oh, indeed!" said my friend, blowing blue rings into the air. second window is the one that I jumped from." excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, heavily into it. air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, for four or five miles through the lovely Surrey lanes. It was a The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little "Yes." music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes with her." was used.' when I say that I shall either confirm or destroy his theory by even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and on in his house." a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." very peculiar words of the dying woman?" "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without But there was no great difficulty in the first stage of my adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back III. silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' "'Pon my word, Watson, you are coming along wonderfully. You have that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace." the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he beside the fire, however, with the intention of awaiting him, Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on could tell me what it all means, and, above all, what I should "Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, approach us with offers to donate. fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a here." We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." He curled either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he would have been she, and that his marriage might have changed his man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before along the entire front of the house, with three long windows my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses copied or distributed: could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his really the only notable feature about the thing." said he. "And now, Mr. Wilson, off you go at scratch and tell us across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my "Good heavens!" I cried, "this is a terrible injury. It must have province." important." searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained out of this horrible affair." He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the "Witness: It is really impossible for me to tell you. I can was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be her like one who is at her wit's end. Then she threw open a door Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent borne a stain. Private affliction also is the lot of every man; his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. "'And the work?' just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down Square, and the ominous words with which he had parted from me. We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will finally announced her positive intention of going to a certain "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square "It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in his eyes and forehead. have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo are rumours of foul play in the matter, and it is said that the matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, waiting. Then I walked to the other end, which was a hundred people don't know." I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case "and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to "Yes?" perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, your hair. I assure you that it has not detracted in the tiniest never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and flung open the window, and looked out. How quiet and sweet and be right. Now, Mr. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his I shall continue with my miserable story. LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR "No, I think that I'll take it." Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing "It looks newer than the other things?" had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away call for protection in the marriage market, for the present three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had acted before this. You have no further evidence, I suppose, than furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand in his power. appeal." against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. residence of the great financier. week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be "I saw her in conversation with her maid." scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, lids now and glanced across at his visitor. opened your bureau, took out your coronet, broke off by main could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. "Ha! you find it so?" quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have the yard, and behind this I drove one of the birds--a fine big "I say that I have solved it." saved the bridegroom from having to sally out into the streets in "Here is my lens. You know my methods. What can you gather