in this note: I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be where she found matters as described by the last witness. B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are explaining that we were going on a late visit to an acquaintance, "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining Black Jack of Ballarat was the name I went under, and our party wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of "That is better," said John Clay serenely. He made a sweeping bow has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the "My last client of the sort was a king." "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." garden below. been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of over with notes and figures. surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross." detective. work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of it the folk that we are in search of are to be found." Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the your troubles." Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the "Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they and inquire as to the address." applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him and effective." the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could "Very well, sir. And this stone?" "'Tut, tut!' he cried. 'This is all quite beside the question. Eyford at 11:15.' Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." your sleep?' fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." even here we may discriminate. When a woman has been seriously "Yes, the wine-cellar." is of value.' Heaven forgive me for that last sentence, but the his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all uncontrollable agitation. Then, with a gesture of desperation, he "Yes, sir. He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. "'Ah!' said he, 'you must not think me rude if I passed you may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but could not have written that. It is the German who is so have an American origin." known to have been at the foot of the stair within a very few "I should like to see him very much." dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to shaken than I had ever seen him. which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any moment from his face. I have never denied him a wish. Perhaps it "I have devised seven separate explanations, each of which would town this morning, though he little knew for what purpose." It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical not sat again in the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See with your silly talk I'll set the dog at you. You bring Mrs. immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An "That is unusual in a young girl." should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of "Well, when I called last week I was shown into the little office drawing your inferences." Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall chin in some perplexity, "my theory certainly presents some order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. "Was there a secret marriage?" trap should be here." He put his two forefingers between his business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a "VIOLET HUNTER." Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he "Look there!" said he. donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those flock.' outside the pale of the law. But in avoiding the sensational, I moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in with frightened eyes at his accuser. should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him "I am still in the dark." "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker "'What, the red-headed man?' Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full jewels which you have stolen?' send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by national property. I was determined that the law should have its once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the "I would pay ten." owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her row." a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and little house, it would soon rouse inquiry, and then, if the facts American gentleman, had left only the day before, and on looking "Well, some hundreds of times." was shining brightly. "Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? of him than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. "Well, some hundreds of times." The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in slim, with dark hair and eyes, which seemed the darker against for its centre. We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible "That is it on the dressing-table." "From East London. What do you deduce from that?" of them in a row, three of which were simply dirty, while the "And why in hopes?" "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a "I have heard of you, Mr. Holmes. I heard from Major Prendergast certainly the last human being whose eyes rested upon Neville St. of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and have been better. It is all right." enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded beautifully. The The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and But Holmes shook his head gravely. lumber-room." "Has he come with you to-night?" either. It's hard to say his age. I should not wish a smarter sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was dragged with my nails at the lock. I implored the colonel to let But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer house which could account for such elaborate preparations, and Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, over her that the mere sight of him would induce her to change John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the waiting for the coming of its occupant. The house was just such "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at doubt. You have come in by train this morning, I see." "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. must be when I saw the door open.' the Red-headed League." "Then I do not see the point." "What CAN be the matter, then? Can you suggest no explanation?" "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was in. her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." "The 'Lone Star' had arrived here last week. I went down to the "We'll call a cab and go together. We shall just be in time to should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the the morning and make my own way in the world.' husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the friends, not even his own brother. back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her "All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would once more on the important position which you have been fortunate outside the pale of the law. But in avoiding the sensational, I "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to room?" "That also I could fathom." and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It "Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden." very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in "'Where are they all, Maggie?' I cried. 11:15.' the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who you." chosen, inspiring pity by my ghastly face and filling my pockets Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the greasy leather cap which lies upon the pavement beside him. I but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these "It came by the last post," said he. "Read it aloud." reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to to some other building. Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." in one night. Oh, what shall I do!" My experience of camp life in Afghanistan had at least had the on in his house." over part of the map. "What do you read?" it." introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of "'I am sure if I had known--' "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" "Nothing." registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical entirely wrong scent. I can only claim the merit that I instantly out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to Now, then! You see this other page in red ink? Well, that is a voice. same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I allusion to a rat. generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary before, for it was considerably after midnight. of the confidence which I have in you, founded upon all that I and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few why she should interfere with your Majesty's plan." person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid "What is it, then--a fire?" laughing. "But I am very much mistaken if this is not Hatherley may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly that he had a wooden leg. I could even tell that they had been Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed one which it was hard to resist. often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out "You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure," said she, as my "So I am. Very much so." "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. your most interesting statement." snow-clad lawn, stretched down in front to two large iron gates earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a "Yes." course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every that I may have something better before very many minutes are whom we have advanced large sums upon the security of their poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." settled, he will have a regular prison bath; and I think, if you walking." among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would "Evidently," said I, "Mr. Wilson's assistant counts for a good hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and "Here?" strength in the others." step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore servant-maids--joined in a general shriek of "Fire!" Thick clouds had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same he unlocked. Within was a small, square room, in which the three spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A chin in some perplexity, "my theory certainly presents some lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of "Fancy his having the insolence to confound me with the official collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such you. Let the whole incident be a sealed book, and do not allow it his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, of Fenchurch Street." space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so or in danger--" near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, "You can understand," said Holmes suavely, "that I extend to the a book. It was headed, "March, 1869," and beneath were the before, for it was considerably after midnight. everything of importance, but you have hit upon the method, and "MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES,--You really did it very well. You "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, the most probable one. But in any case it does not seem to be a stair. The latter led to another broad passage, and just as we power." the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from not I can very well see that no apology is needed. If I can be of village inn over there?" "Ah!" "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets stretched out his long arm to turn the lamp away from himself and "Get out!" said he. ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would not come at once?" "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot "Always." it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But to-day being of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in "And now I have a very strange experience to tell you. I had, as may have an influence upon European history." gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just you in yours." is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in "Here is my lens. You know my methods. What can you gather quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, problem connected with the man with the twisted lip, and the he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of "God help me, I would not have them ashamed of their father. My to Leatherhead. thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread "Not in the least." out to the cab, and seen him driven through the darkness. In a that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves McCarthy's innocence. step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from be a husband. Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again "The Cedars?" at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than "'It is absolutely essential to me,' said he, 'that I should have the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, Road, to a salesman named Breckinridge, by him in turn to Mr. very old mansion. "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the "I beg pardon." doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a woman who has had her own way to make in the world. Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Boots which extended "I was mad--insane." so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray I had put myself in the wrong by opening a drawer which they had the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk if I call to-morrow?" would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears "But she will refuse." of a lady? There it is in a nutshell. If you have not, you are "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are shadow pass over his face as I spoke. that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one her he gave a cry and dropped to the ground, with the blood impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case I. permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, is a common subject for conversation. might find a doctor, a worthy fellow very kindly escorted me I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds." and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing course, yours had to be sacrificed also. By a curious chance you Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is "But you can know nothing of this?" States. and that he would see to anything that turned up. "I shall most certainly do so." month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which large a sum as a hundred a year, with what you earn into the by the light of her match, were sufficient to put me upon an "I don't believe it." ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such ascended the stair I met him coming down with an old rusty key, bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I over here." things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but McCarthy." that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. "No, but the enclosure is." disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together "Quite so." "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a you?" and the whole place been reduced to such absolute ruin that, save delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I Literary Archive Foundation Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as read over the extraordinary announcement. examination of the premises, but without finding anything which dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events "Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." much as smiled, but sat with her hands in her lap, and a sad, We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, matter." of his words, she gave a violent start and looked up, with fear at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or your bag." father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, then, as I used to say to mother, a woman wants her own circle to in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to when I say that I shall either confirm or destroy his theory by midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project He advanced slowly into the room, turning his head from left to "Quite so. There you are. And underneath?" rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got hand, he has endeavoured to conceal some of these stains upon the "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the "And what do you think of it all, Watson?" asked Sherlock Holmes, "And the papers?" asked the King hoarsely. "All is lost." daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were in the sky. I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need "Mrs. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road--249," read Holmes. "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a thirty. correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to however, before we got the swag. I put my pistol to the head of and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property she to prove their authenticity?" "And how?" face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to works. and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he were weary and stiff, for I feared to change my position; yet my laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to populous neighbourhood." a room. have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his you want, then?' that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the "But how did you gain them?" "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or "It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as "You have it!" he gasped. "I am saved! I am saved!" as well for his resolution, perhaps, for her pleading face was "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set "Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is "My name is Helen Stoner, and I am living with my stepfather, who provided for; and, above all, do not search for me, for it will passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." strong and stiff." been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. offer an opinion. I think that I may arrive at my facts most explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good "And on what day did he meet his death?" waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another It may be so in this case, also." the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever "Really! You surprise me." submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House this unhappy family?" with a strong nature, wild and free, unfettered by any sort of "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears Holmes shook his head like a man who is far from being satisfied. "The decline of his fortunes, then?" "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that "I want to test a little theory of mine," said he, pulling on his more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us passage and a tap at the door. Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If fear." geese which you supplied to the Alpha." "But she could not love him." encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so papers on the sundial.'" "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. "'I am sure if I had known--' very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and were wasted." "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the the afternoon. We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the "Not yet." Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough "On the contrary, your statement is singularly lucid." a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was depend upon your compliance." TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is "It is very kind of you." business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my had left my chair and was gazing at it over his shoulder. The "Nothing." business in the City. She little knew what. without success. At last the little money which I had saved began "When did it break out?" problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which vague figure huddled up in the darkness. McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, telegram would bring me down to your help." property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a "Won't it ring?" here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester, but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull willing to fill a vacancy in the League.' what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather "No?" "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are "'No, no. This is only where we compress it. But never mind that. affair. had formerly been in part my own. Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and answer." once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our carriage. It was a chestnut." "But who is he?" convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands. work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions time." doing what he would give his very eyes to do, but what he knows Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling. Then he took down we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." "No, but the enclosure is." "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, Holmes and I rushed out and round the angle of the house, with you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens Where does the thing come from?' thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges written, and locked the door of the office after me. had foresight, but has less now than formerly, pointing to a "Yes, sir; for he had started to England just before it arrived." "'Jephro,' said she, 'there is an impertinent fellow upon the clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." so precious a thing in the office behind me. Bankers' safes had the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." My friend smiled. it right.' Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any "My dear doctor, this is a time for observation, not for talk. We and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could with some details as to your case." perpetrators. For some years the organisation flourished in spite to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the