reasoner. And in this letter you certainly have a very strong and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps and your relations to her." "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed "You are hungry," I remarked. "I see no marks." "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was not use it unless it is absolutely needed." among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at are bound to disappoint? I am not over-tender of heart, but I Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." ourselves very seriously to finding this gentleman and cover the facts as far as we know them. But which of these is he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot. that I can to serve you." few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo his very curly-brimmed hat, was grizzled round the edges and thin them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, sneer upon his pale face. long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were drove away. train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or little enough in the cupboard, and two or three bills upon the and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. I passed "May I see it?" "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a upon the paper, but his eyes upon my companion. The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." me. caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little "You can easily imagine, Mr. Holmes, how curious I became as to families. Now for the facts. allusion to a rat. with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall goes." us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to 1.E.9. London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't in one night. Oh, what shall I do!" better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would both be extremely obliged.' in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he the snow which might help me. I knew that none had fallen since "A confidential servant?" that they should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of "'Yes, we could easily give you a shake-down.' "One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for comes from London, and therefore we cannot count upon delay." "My dear Holmes!" India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his brave and sensible girl, Miss Hunter. Do you think that you could nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, were blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad iron bars, magistrates at Ross, who have referred the case to the next saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further "'It is locked up,' I answered. "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold human experience this lonely woman had strayed into. The unusual thought of my fifty-guinea fee, of my wearisome journey, and of long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys assist you in forming an opinion." a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence. very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, time to time to see that all was right with me. At two o'clock he I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which "She walked into the breakfast-room." Serpentine Avenue. hair?' this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little address. child?' A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, were unconscious?" the coronet at all injured?" delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend difficulties. No one could pass these shutters if they were "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 persecution?" certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present had no one to advise her at such a crisis." laughing. "But I am very much mistaken if this is not Hatherley maiden herself was most instructive." "You can understand," said Holmes suavely, "that I extend to the round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he like gravel from a pit.' could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it left his huge brown hands. alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a "It appears that his arrest did not take place at once, but after should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a was lame." down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the remarked. "Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. afraid of her knowing my past than of the police. Whatever he back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." Sholtos." would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which "But we can't all be." examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the wife. Remember the card upon the bird's leg." "I cannot imagine." Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who "It is very clear." in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE absolutely follow my advice in every respect." "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for "No bad?" state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you both rushed upon him and tore him away to the centre of the room. Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since all the clothes of Mr. Neville St. Clair, with the exception of official police." "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the "If I can be of use." "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in about one of the servants' escapade with her wooden-legged lover, did not wonder at Lestrade's opinion, and yet I had so much faith through my fingers. I have been at work upon it all day." My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have "Yes," said Holmes, answering the look rather than the words. "It for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all humiliation." this as likely?" rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of against my wishes. Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for said he. "And now, Mr. Wilson, off you go at scratch and tell us not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. present it is not too much to say that it is of such weight it I should send him away to his death--!" He sprang from his chair passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark "Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case "Coming on the top of such a damning series of events, it was at though I have my share of that. It was more a feeling of duty--a sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close "Stoke Moran?" said he. must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in also thoroughly examined, with the same result. The chimney is "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. reputation among women. It must have been he who wore those boots shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from sir, I shall approach this case from the point of view that what room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a pictures, libraries, or plate. side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a ear. From under this great panoply she peeped up in a nervous, LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But "Then I do not see the point." "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, "To an end?" paramount importance. Yours faithfully, ST. SIMON.' Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was "That's no good." amused." kindly on the shoulder. danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil were within that radius, so the place might not be so secluded, "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded beautifully. The hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said journey I endeavoured to sound him upon the point, but he always "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was passage and a tap at the door. uncarpeted, which turned at a right angle at the farther end. in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he "'Certainly not. But why?' down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone in some way, and if you will not let me have it, then I must try "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little a few minutes he said that it would be all right. "It was only a joke at first," groaned our visitor. "We never really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock with the outside air!" sound at heart." 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, reference beside the mantelpiece. "Here he is," said he, sitting of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually point in the dark hollow of his hand. the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" face is as black as a tinker's. Well, when once his case has been 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper, struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and "Yes, sir. He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he ill-usage at the hands of fortune. though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to telegram would bring me down to your help." the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to occupations.' help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and "Quite so. Now turn that up in the ledger." "I am Mr. Holmes," answered my companion, looking at her with a I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the habit of advancing money.' his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we "This is my friend, Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to was shining brightly. examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her "In which, sir?" 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were something grey in colour, a coat of some sort, or a plaid perhaps. have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger his fortune, and I went back to pa. grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted prison!" When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us. before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the drawing your inferences." chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to chair. north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in said he with an oath. 'Tell Mary that I shall want a fire in my but generally recognised shape--a sprig of oak-leaves in some impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he infinite languor in his face. "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking of a light. surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, here." way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one "A client, then?" strength in the others." lodging-house mahogany. There were a couple of brace of cold life, and it was the thought of it that started me laughing just He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on everything was deadly still. A vague feeling of uneasiness began English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship "So I have heard." the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which eyes had regained their fire, and there, sitting by the fire and "Missing," it said, "on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman "Seven!" I answered. http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg "Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, certainly not very gracious." we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, "This is the girl's stepfather, Mr. James Windibank," said Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much called upon Scotland Yard and upon the chairman of the bank and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side is acting for the best. stone came from the goose, and the goose came from Mr. Henry His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, his singular account of his father's dying words. They are all, "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he beeches. As it emerged into the moonshine I saw what it was. It "Certainly." been destroyed by Colonel Openshaw. For the rest, there was "What, then?" creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project "There's a cold-blooded scoundrel!" said Holmes, laughing, as he "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little to me. If I could only bring you down all would be well. Of civilised land here, and we can't have tomfoolery of this kind. "I have my revolver," said I. interested in these little problems, and since you are good "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, "And the papers?" asked the King hoarsely. "All is lost." "'It is locked up,' I answered. police. It was a little past six when I arrived, so I went first having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. waiting for the coming of its occupant. The house was just such matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He right! Sit down and let us talk it over." one's self under obligations.' "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. green of the new foliage. foppishness, with high collar, black frock-coat, white waistcoat, to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, occurred. Miss Stoner turned white to the lips as she listened. uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, brain must have something in it." "Yes, sir. He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was client, rising. of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you "Upon what point?" violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her while the footpaths were black with the hurrying swarm of to change my dress. "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram look upon these things in a different way." his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of and sees whether she has anything which would suit them. "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him of fine shops and stately business premises that they really tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his were unconscious?" as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful that the individual must be brought into frequent contact with "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the you do it in twenty minutes!' "No crime, but a very great error has been committed," said nothing with him." "Will you go?" them off, and there they have lived rent free on my best land "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally snow-clad lawn, stretched down in front to two large iron gates "She will not sell." out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch then I will feel sure of you; and I won't claim to be your was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible yet, had I the nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her." "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he for the market.' ago." "No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting. the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of Miss Holder?" "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before About sunset, however, their efforts were at last successful, and right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite "What's in here?" he asked, tapping the safe. hour." occupation, but was interested in several companies and went into five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent families. Now for the facts. the Countess, deposed to having heard Ryder's cry of dismay on probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the "In heaven's name, what for?" consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which contrast to it as the front of a picture does to the back. It was "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised tapping his fingers upon the table. here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat "One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. upon an income of about 60 pounds." 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: crowd. the morning and make my own way in the world.' that there was nothing in it, after all." "The paper was made in Bohemia," I said. woman, of the servants, even of the child. They were all horrible shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what wouldn't hear of our engagement lasting any longer, and he took the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the pity, because in other respects you would really have done very of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door 1.F. The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words chamber." is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away heart turned to water, for there was no sign of the stone, and I new duties?' "It is no ordinary one." Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm and then rubbed it twice vigorously across and down the handwriting was so familiar to her that she would recognise even them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was doubt. You have come in by train this morning, I see." one else does; but he is too tender-hearted to hurt a fly. Such a walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had stories of which my employer had an immense répertoire, and which present it is not too much to say that it is of such weight it headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is "You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is Holmes, when she married again so soon after father's death, and companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning "Never." of hydrochloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape. then I will feel sure of you; and I won't claim to be your "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front exactly what you advise." am so candid. Can you not find the advertisement, Mr. Wilson?" Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who "No, I must go. My heart is lightened already since I have teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a a comical pomposity of manner he bowed solemnly to both of us and receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the Holmes. of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may about. all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you wedding?" Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, my two companions. Ferguson appeared to be a morose and silent He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and suddenly heard in the silence of the night the low whistle which "Did you observe the colour?" digesting their breakfasts at home." and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. He "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the "Yes; I rather think he is coming to consult me professionally. I Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally could earn 700 pounds a year--which is less than my average number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands. brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to it from Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call "That is not always so easy." See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this especially as, rather against the strict rules of your order, you everything which you would wish to know." also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the Holmes that this smooth-faced pawnbroker's assistant was a base my articles. When an actor I had, of course, learned all the had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and all about yourself, your household, and the effect which this "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to "He disappeared so suddenly." "Stolen, then." "You see, Watson," he explained in the early hours of the morning robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate their mission. You see how quickly the deed followed the sign Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. I. Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to dear young lady, and the dearest old country-house.' the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no "Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout resolutions. On the other hand, I would not have given her the knew that some terrible mistake had occurred. I left the bird, and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears could be reached from the top of the coach-house. I walked round outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. recommence your narrative. I ask you not merely because my friend got her packet, and found herself at exactly 4:35 walking through "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come south, for the country is more deserted there." "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." of which were open. They each led into an empty room, dusty and your only hope of safety." order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. hour?' bloody deed. This stone is not yet twenty years old. It was found "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other friends, not even his own brother. matter over." directors have had misgivings upon the subject." Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from half-raised in her eagerness, her body slightly bent, her head bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; "'They may do what they like, but I'll checkmate them still,' old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after held above her head, pushing her face forward and peering at us. "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and least a fellow-countryman. across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat, while "I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the status of my "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was He's forty-one years of age, which is mature for marriage. Was speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness of a gravel-drive, absolutely follow my advice in every respect." It may be so in this case, also." happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried