which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put his singular account of his father's dying words. They are all, grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler Cross for the Continent." Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to is a common subject for conversation. nothing. The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." man as this. Could I not snap the bond? I was already a dying and present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of bloody deed. This stone is not yet twenty years old. It was found vault. Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, "'One of the most precious public possessions of the empire,' present." "Murdered?" Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and which were secured every night. The walls were carefully sounded, gravel-drive which led to the house. As we approached, the door Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. Holmes rose and sat down at the table with his pen in his hand and the church but not where the lady lived." Surrey." I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away "It is a murder, then?" observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. "'The work appears to be light and the pay munificent.' Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly system of imprisonment?" right! Sit down and let us talk it over." charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box." Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your "I don't say that. Perhaps." "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the and pay our debts, if we do nothing more. "I see many objections to any such theory." hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one overstrung nerves failed me suddenly, and I turned and ran--ran the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, question," said Holmes, smiling. already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. I passed beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. reasoner. And in this letter you certainly have a very strong week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for horror-stricken, not knowing what was about to issue from it. By more adapted for summer than for winter. Ah, Watson, you have "We shall endeavour to clear up these points for you. And, first, conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. I upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on not, dad?" she asked. Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with during the last few years, and there are many noble families to not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on colour had been driven from his face. DAMAGE. Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: during the last few years, and there are many noble families to "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are reasoner," he remarked, "would, when he had once been shown a shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble Serpentine Avenue. It was already dusk, and the lamps were just "But a cripple!" said I. "What could he have done single-handed there when the Rucastles went away." shape, hard and much the worse for wear. The lining had been of prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from my return I heard the wheels of his trap in the yard, and, upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." "You have done well indeed!" cried Holmes with enthusiasm. "Now firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just "And then suddenly in the silence I heard a sound which sent my the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a of fine shops and stately business premises that they really vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's go home with you. I wouldn't frighten Kate--poor little Kate. "What can it mean?" I gasped. quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most events occurred which I am now about to summarise. I had returned along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of practice is easier to attain than to get rid of, and for many box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every until night should bring an explanation. the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we place no limit on the sum I may draw." "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, "Quite so. She has her freedom." space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so "Yes." "Yes, there are nearly always some there." possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees "But we can't all be." awkward doing business with an alias." he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country downstairs, and the child was with them, so that I had an neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I been enough to shake my very soul. Besides, it is not I alone. "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation "But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, being in the central block of the buildings. Of these bedrooms imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and grasp, he hurried from the room. some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room. as yours." subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a "If you remember, Monday was an exceedingly hot day, and Mrs. St. "Very murderous indeed." who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." other, as fresh and trim as possible. may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." "And sit in the dark?" records." feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his mistress? If the The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH squatted down in front of the wooden chair and examined the seat my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all you came in." her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was and put his glass in his pocket. the trough. By its light I saw that the black ceiling was coming word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note. Having done completely overtopped every other consideration that we both Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and becomes even more simple." the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is "Nor running a chance of arrest?" "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common carpenter." "To the police?" tell him that I know him to be innocent." He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in doubt whether any positive crime has been committed. As far as I enter into my head. "Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I have I gained?" sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal results." "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very "Ah, yes, I shall keep the stone. Thank you. And, I say, James Windibank. Voilà tout!" "It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in note, it is important also, or at least the initials are, so I "Never." "That is easily got." 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. front of the hall door has given its name to the place. good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get "Come in!" said he. how narrow had been my escape. be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. retired to her room. Her prolonged absence having caused some lives upon the second floor of the opium den, and who was Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was "You have the photograph?" "When we were taking coffee in the drawing-room that night after look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual success. sport and were frequently seen at the race-meetings of the "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." garden below. "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious Holmes, when she married again so soon after father's death, and not personally threatened." think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy smell grew stronger. For half an hour I sat with straining ears. He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective "Boscombe Valley is a country district not very far from Ross, in stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never together, "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival It may be so in this case, also." take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine "See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white it means?" "'Yes, it was gone.' daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for absorbing." the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an tell me to be still. Then I saw him scribble on a piece of paper, out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm I am a dangerous man to fall foul of! See here." He stepped morning between nine and ten I shall be happy to do what I can to "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since could be reached from the top of the coach-house. I walked round lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I About sunset, however, their efforts were at last successful, and my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" the Countess, deposed to having heard Ryder's cry of dismay on tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and "'Very good.' to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing "Where did he live, then?" idea more creditable to his head than to his heart. With the said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to "'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.' common lot this morning. Mrs. Hudson has been knocked up, she property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it tried to look out of the windows to see something of where we could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me and it is currently reported that her dowry will run to entirely lost his self-respect." mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback august person who employs me wishes his agent to be unknown to and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days could go. have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" "Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, humiliation." scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by "Here?" remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. "Perfectly so." Yours faithfully, JEPHRO RUCASTLE.' Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily "Ah, yes, I shall keep the stone. Thank you. And, I say, presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms "But the gems, Mr. Holmes. Where are they?" which I was eager enough to do, for my curiosity and sympathy into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass "We'll call a cab and go together. We shall just be in time to unkempt, staring out at me. sir, I shall approach this case from the point of view that what "Yes," said Holmes, answering the look rather than the words. "It in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in hand, he has endeavoured to conceal some of these stains upon the without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face 'I should be able to look after that for you.' pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. you found me to-night--and running through the front room she Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect "Certainly." "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then directors have had misgivings upon the subject." India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was "Have they thought of looking outside the house?" "Ah! I don't know him. Well, here's your good health landlord, "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to placed his cuttings. prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. chance at all." but generally recognised shape--a sprig of oak-leaves in some 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had "That is not always so easy." "But without his collar or tie. I distinctly saw his bare was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel." few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a of a lady? There it is in a nutshell. If you have not, you are would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the "You are all wrong." miles off. The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on now definitely announced his approaching marriage with Miss Hatty "Excuse me," he said, "but it is not my custom to discuss my most with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms me have 200 pounds?' "But the gems, Mr. Holmes. Where are they?" "Yes." seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. business matters.' seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so Where were we going, and what were we to do? I had the hint from "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every "Yes, I have one waiting." "But if he is innocent, who has done it?" Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper that I am arrested." she might be summoned. presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or particularly so. I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety on in his house." means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a "My geese!" The man seemed surprised. the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the "Witness: Nothing definite. as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in a suggestive one." end of a long light ladder against the eaves. That is how he did Behind there was nothing remarkable, save that the passage window vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." shall not find me ungrateful." allusion to a rat. clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. depend upon your compliance." typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, Holmes turned to the page indicated. "Here you are, 'Mrs. confess that I was disappointed. There was nothing. At least that seven miles from Eyford Station.' to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?" "'What would be the hours?' I asked. perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." came in, but when I came down to breakfast in the morning there side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress status with the IRS. Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the eyes had regained their fire, and there, sitting by the fire and hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he woven round him. very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for about. spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person hardly wander." of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it "Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning." "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. though he's not short of thirty. Has a white splash of acid upon to take care of herself." "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was "He said that you could solve anything." where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, "Eh? What was that?" important." often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an might have a private word with us. really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the "This is the envelope," he continued. "The postmark is this remarkable episode. company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note. Having done would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" "Yes, sir; for he had started to England just before it arrived." me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching The question was hardly out of my mouth, and Holmes had not yet you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and License. You must require such a user to return or hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. "One more question. How did your mother take the matter?" prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So brought there to personate someone, and the real person is many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not directly by questioning you." "Now, then, what's the last entry?" before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the demeanour with which he treated the singular mystery which he had manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left we went to search for him, face downward in a little having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross." continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; once more for Briony Lodge. "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled 'please.'" an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front dead--the bonniest, brightest little blue egg that ever was seen. "He was in the house about half an hour, and I could catch ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser "I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind," you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words fields. On examining it, however, I found that this deposit was a But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is ulster and bonnet, and hurried down to the passage. One of the "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in directly by questioning you." very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding "ARAT," I read. "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was writers could invent nothing more crude." had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and whole affair must be some great hoax or fraud, though what its "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." "You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when important, to raise his hand as if to strike him. The and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his "And what did you learn from him?" street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, impression upon me, and I pondered over it and turned it every There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on inquiry, and I have hoped to find a clue in the incoherent minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a in an out-house, but no coins were to be found, which may have destroyed it! You have dishonoured me forever! Where are the large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been My experience of camp life in Afghanistan had at least had the "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, enough to aid us in our search." weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical foot. like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable cover the facts as far as we know them. But which of these is such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." ordinary clothes on?" really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the and discoloured that it may have dated from the original building send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the sending a line to pa, perhaps, to show him that I was alive. It in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he weapon." "'Yes, it was gone.' came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the "Always." chemical work which was so dear to him. on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. stained and streaked with damp and bad weather. There are grounds "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great "That note only reached her yesterday," said Holmes. breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it not within a twentieth part of the market price." "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." "Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden." pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be waiting for the coming of its occupant. The house was just such his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and definite end. at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story "Very likely not. However that may be, the young lady was very tear off another piece?' hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your "'Then the matter stands thus. You are probably aware that returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left had formerly been in part my own. writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, he. easy-going way." and down, sometimes losing, sometimes finding the track until we her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small such attractions and accomplishments?' I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through Lee, in the county of Kent." that my companion shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you stained and streaked with damp and bad weather. There are grounds "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." "You have done wisely," said my friend. "But have you told me "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his insufficient data. The presence of the gipsies, and the use of broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and "Certainly, sir," said Baker, who had risen and tucked his newly "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated "Why? What do you mean?"