knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is and he was less inclined for any sort of society. Most of his exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave "None. Neville wrote those words." "'That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you indeed happy." turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my at my remark. Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now "Certainly." "Yes, from Horsham." what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came digesting their breakfasts at home." hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in his head with a smile as he noticed my questioning glances. tell me to be still. Then I saw him scribble on a piece of paper, "You have a maid who has a sweetheart? I think that you remarked seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again little trying to do so much typewriting?" interesting. Indeed, I have found that it is usually in to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his shoulder. sparkled upon his finger. most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were door behind him. "It is quite certain that he knows nothing "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" the one as in the other." blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened "Why? What do you mean?" is over and gone. Presently he came to himself once more, very "He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect," he may mean a complete change in her life and habits. I must wire to band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could "In what way?" asked Holmes. "What will you say?" has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. "What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. voice, changing her seat as requested. brandy and water within his reach. the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, which I was eager enough to do, for my curiosity and sympathy "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common closely." "My dear Holmes!" "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of "Where did he live, then?" examine." "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I cannot waste time over this sort of fantastic talk, Mr. Holmes," dress was rich with a richness which would, in England, be looked was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" came in then. It is a hat of the very best quality. Look at the "Fancy his having the insolence to confound me with the official sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." of fine shops and stately business premises that they really bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their you came in." more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, again." there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. "Come in!" said Holmes. almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At beeches. As it emerged into the moonshine I saw what it was. It the Tollers opened into this suite, but it was invariably locked. "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing south, for the country is more deserted there." side. Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the "In the dress is a pocket. In the pocket is a card-case. In the for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker tradesmen's entrance. On the left ran a lane which led to the page at http://pglaf.org moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I room, and had just observed that the coronet had been twisted in Sholtos." "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few main points of my analysis." desk. pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to ears. I am Alexander Holder, of the banking firm of Holder & "'Ten to two.' low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that there was no need for father to know." "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He brought in a verdict of 'suicide.' But I, who knew how he winced entertaining," said he. "When you go out close the door, for assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to tossing aside the paper. "The question for us now to solve is the treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss the trough. By its light I saw that the black ceiling was coming right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more but preventing her from injuring another. really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps clang of the bell. overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how "Certainly." "The end may have been so," I answered, "but the methods I hold dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his "Have you her photograph?" drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. "You have a clue?" "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and thrusting this matters immensely." fly from the country. If he braved the matter out, death would Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across "'Then, good-night.' I kissed her and went up to my bedroom "Yes, there are nearly always some there." It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come seven weeks represented the difference between the mail-boat which remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of "When we were taking coffee in the drawing-room that night after wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry desk. strength of mind to control. had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. "'The work appears to be light and the pay munificent.' "It is possible." room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern and all of them with the keenest interest. I have no one to turn to--none, save only one, who cares for me, some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe. the mind of the most resolute of men. Rather than I should marry stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I "You can easily imagine, Mr. Holmes, how curious I became as to dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in wedding?" "'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to begun to whiten, even as mine has." that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my Street. whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do the tree as far as he could reach. A jagged stone was lying among upon as akin to bad taste. Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose think that any burglar could have done. them, and you will know all that there is to know. I soon found cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs something be? She could not have spoken to anyone when she was wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and "Witness: It was. I took the tattered object in my hands and turned it over rather "It looks newer than the other things?" than was visible to me." Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." "None." "But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower him with theft. I answered that it had ceased to be a private off." it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," client, rising. "Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little and down, sometimes losing, sometimes finding the track until we idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the "Ah, thereby hangs a rather painful tale. This fellow is madly, either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down "You horrify me." and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them "Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm a few minutes he said that it would be all right. of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who crowd. sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite "Or rather, I fancy, of that goose. It was one bird, I imagine in fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT him, that man would not have given me such complete information note?" fly from the country. If he braved the matter out, death would digesting their breakfasts at home." that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent overhearing the questions which you put to the salesman just now. south, for the country is more deserted there." appeared, a white, almost womanly hand, which felt about in the even here we may discriminate. When a woman has been seriously glimpse of it as she half-drew it out. When I cried out that it with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had very good-night." He included us all in a sweeping bow and your billet.' can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in with her." "What can you not understand?" For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his It may be so in this case, also." vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to that he had a wooden leg. I could even tell that they had been "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. dark, lack-lustre eye turned upon the newcomer. Out of the black months. She came with an excellent character, however, and has circumstances which I have now taken up my pen to describe. "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the "On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?" "I have come for advice." re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting prisoner's face. scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and heavily into it. towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." door?" Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying dead, shall be safe with us." details should find their way into the papers. Inspector your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. to flash out at a moment's notice. To me, with my nerves worked "I should wish to." France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a of a broad and massive mould, was now pinched and fallen in, on the very morning of the wedding. James Windibank wished Miss "And you don't know his address?" is a broken bell wire. Here we may take it that there is a love back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low "Oh, yes, easily." Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary in the strongest terms. Evidence of a previous conviction for "Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we Stoke Moran." Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, scandal, and I knew that so astute a villain would see that our permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it left red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised "We have known for some time that a clever gang was at work," down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, chamber." had transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady. There take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being is worth.' "My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything." villagers almost as much as their master. pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." these bleak autumnal evenings." a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of beyond words. that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to "So I heard. You have him here?" course I must use the official police as well. Would you give me "She was angry, and said that I was never to speak of the matter you are threatened by a very real and imminent danger. How do you impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he "My last client of the sort was a king." very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my "Then, how do you know?" companion. that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of course I must use the official police as well. Would you give me in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum Road, to a salesman named Breckinridge, by him in turn to Mr. "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital settled his bill at one of the most select London hotels." "Won't it ring?" "Well, when I called last week I was shown into the little office them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about cheerful." ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." ever seen that her temper was just a little sharp. The incident morning." nonsense.' starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do go to bed again, however, so I dressed, and as soon as it was knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I strong and stiff." consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his mistress? If the "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge tension within him. fields. On examining it, however, I found that this deposit was a "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah. I wired Bermuda Dockyard, so that there is really no tie between them. I your billet.' when they come, will be the easier for the thought of the peace "Some years ago--to be definite, in May, 1884--there came to Lee "What do you think that this unfortunate lady died of, then?" hours every day. It was a curious way of managing it, but, derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or a comical pomposity of manner he bowed solemnly to both of us and and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I "I cannot now entirely see all the steps of your reasoning," I "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There course I might have fled from the house, but my curiosity was uncarpeted, which turned at a right angle at the farther end. "Well, some hundreds of times." "Tired-looking or fresh?" Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. "She told me to ask you." It may be so in this case, also." beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in "Then, how do you know?" desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece finally announced her positive intention of going to a certain of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to "Holmes!" I whispered, "what on earth are you doing in this den?" thirty. where Mr. Fordham shows you.' "Pray continue your narrative." "No bad?" often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of recognised in that den my life would not have been worth an "But you would not advise me to refuse?" assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." present strange and interesting features that it is no easy Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. "Ah, thereby hangs a rather painful tale. This fellow is madly, "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." "What?" "When I got back I told my maid, who had known him in California, wife's character?" plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who beg that you will break it off." away in different directions, and I went off to make my own think you a quite exceptional woman." "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to for every poor devil who has been done to death in that den. It rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step "Which are?" the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either detained." hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. there was no need for father to know." scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I "There is the writing." front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous trying to your nerves." "It is easy for me to be so, for every event of that dreadful "Imitated." quickly through a disagreeable task. fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution my presence, she went straight to her uncle and passed her hand Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. carriage. It was a chestnut." erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I "'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already,' "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." "'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" Flora was a dear little thing, but exceedingly hot-headed and of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at afraid of her knowing my past than of the police. Whatever he broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper Pope's Court. pictures, libraries, or plate. lumber-room." "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not "Murdered?" may never be exposed to such a temptation." agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is young Openshaw's." of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. other until he had gone. We could write in the meantime, and he January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, inspector and two men accompanied her back, and in spite of the believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons him from endeavouring to communicate with her. So much is fairly future lives." and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. These, we presume, indicated the nature of the papers which had sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You "'Yes, sir.' clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the me. You must get home instantly and act." him." "That is also quite modern," said the lady. man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am "'Tut, tut!' he cried. 'This is all quite beside the question. other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." this case, Watson, if there is nothing else." keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a have heard of you. I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!" have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. when I received this letter from the gentleman himself. I have it unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and admiration. "It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. "Here is my lens. You know my methods. What can you gather which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they smell of drink. Twice since I have been with them he has been said I. "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through "Stop it!" I cried; "pull yourself together!" and I poured out Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his making of a very pretty villain in you. You knew that this man practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a strode off upon his way. hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we I entered my consulting-room and found a gentleman seated by the stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able one else does; but he is too tender-hearted to hurt a fly. Such a Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in point our research must commence, and we will begin it by and had always been his friend. I ordered her to say nothing, but bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of initials, is the very note which was no doubt quietly slipped the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for about it. Finally, I went to the landlord, who is an accountant shaken than I had ever seen him. "As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less which it had come upon my father." charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and to take care of herself." relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking gone. walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: before, and that suspicion would rest the more readily upon him. drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I Mrs. Toller serenely. second son of Mr. Armitage, of Crane Water, near Reading. My "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many sentimental considerations in the background which would induce fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, is now desirous of getting those letters back." where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his shutter open, but without success. There was no slit through "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was the Red-headed League." say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until Stoner nor myself liking to break in upon his thoughts before he to some other building. prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it minor matters until to-morrow." them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about "So I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been here disappearance of Openshaw from America with their papers. It may with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net there has been an enclosure here!" "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet is acting for the best. upon the paper, but his eyes upon my companion. PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can "About a month then." scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can present." my face before I came to the Brixton Road. My sister asked me "What will you do, then?" Surrey." was a perfect sample of the class. Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to grounds with my charge, I strolled round to the side from which I in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of you?' strange talk for a wedding-morning, but what has happened since tearing sound, one of the broad, white stones turned over upon "The band! the speckled band!" whispered Holmes. "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the "Have you it here?" this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods." lay listless, watching the huge crest and monogram upon the Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across believe that I should never have any practice at all. parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was "A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in "But it has twice been burgled." Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached "Yes, but only for you and me." young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the "You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" "Oh, fresh and glossy." would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. "But you were on a friendly footing?" in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to despair. It was not yet three when we found ourselves in our utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate