to arrive at through this?" them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very both be extremely obliged.' treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured overstrung nerves failed me suddenly, and I turned and ran--ran then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at "Of Friday, June 19th." "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat. Sherlock Holmes welcomed believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." there! The cabman said that he could not imagine what had become mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson "'I have already given you my word.' was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing "I was staggered, sir. I did not know what to do. Then I called permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's awkward doing business with an alias." "No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and across it. It was a wonderfully silent house. There was an old lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be depend upon my doing so.' shoulder; "he's all right." McCarthy." "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I "But who is he?" been able to understand it, in a very few words. "and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in a comical pomposity of manner he bowed solemnly to both of us and one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that case before our client came into the room." "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the "'Never,' said I. Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as were thick with the ice crystals. "I suppose," I remarked, "that, standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." that you can jump it.' Dr. Gregory B. Newby companion, had assisted the woman to bear the unconscious man out keenly at Holmes with his bright little eyes. an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he card was brought in to me by one of the clerks. I started when I "Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing "Frankly, now!" she repeated, standing upon the rug and looking We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this "'It is locked up,' I answered. "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his "Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event congenial hunt. "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." When I rose from my father I looked round for it, but it was three of the beryls in it, was missing. all-comprehensive glances. cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, "Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk room?" "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that "You did not overhear what they said?" had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was them present such singular features as the strange train of fasten all the windows?" his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. "'Never,' said I. A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless James Windibank. Voilà tout!" request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my past ten, however, and quite time that we started. If you two doubled it over, and read the following paragraph: "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it locked." hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that Watson," he said cordially. copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived, but jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." you should take an interest in it. It laid an egg after it was unforeseen manner. So perfect was the organisation of the in some sort of light mousseline de soie, with a touch of fluffy business." We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers a few minutes to accompany my friend down to the sitting-room. A beg that you will break it off." and it need not interfere very much with one's other son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would "But the mystery?" "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It before. As he stepped up to the cab, he pulled a gold watch from at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss you, my dear young lady?' "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." Mary, has deserted me." himself. street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." was it brought him the coronet? "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect. to be a simple case; to me it seems exceedingly complex. Consider lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying "Indeed, it seemed unnecessary to put so nice a bell-pull there. are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin arrested. You then--" photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or II. rooms." to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his of it with the greatest attention. like that before?" "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at what these perils are?" society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and "I should wish to." "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic definite end. "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from unprecedented a position." data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now large a sum as a hundred a year, with what you earn into the "It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" her. 'You will be the ruin of us. He has seen too much. Let me now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have into a doddering, loose-lipped senility. story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been "Do you go out much in society?" "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step burden to them, and so they have the use of the money just while "'Why, what on earth does this mean, John?' he stammered. "It goes to the housekeeper's room." my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting tossing aside the paper. "The question for us now to solve is the once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and own grounds. A stable-boy had run out to the horse's head, and said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson member of an aristocratic club, and there, having charming The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in "Yes, at the mines." "It came by the last post," said he. "Read it aloud." to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently country--in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. 'Remarkable as being the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the "I believe that he is coming here," said Holmes, rubbing his "I have heard of you, Mr. Holmes. I heard from Major Prendergast my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. death." learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you unforeseen manner. So perfect was the organisation of the America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted himself in a perplexing position. system of imprisonment?" at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them house which could account for such elaborate preparations, and Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was of him than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands. "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and very capable performer but a composer of no ordinary merit. All We heard the door open, a few hurried words, and then quick steps are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers away we drove to some lodgings he had taken in Gordon Square, and Doctor, of the paper and the date." and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry certainty. We have come now out of mere vagueness to the definite which is a household word all over the earth--one of the highest, wife. Remember the card upon the bird's leg." "Pray do, sir, if it may help to clear this horrible affair up." sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his "Quite so. There you are. And underneath?" the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived, but nothing with him." person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was "Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door very "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set in a friendly supper." The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' "One moment," Holmes interposed, "your statement is, I foresee, continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of instincts rose up against that laugh. his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a her to take great liberties. Still, of course, in America they Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was chance." the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his photograph?" either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his go--none." who was a member of your goose club." expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" "The King of Scandinavia." from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has to some other building. "I cannot as yet see any connection." carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the of fine shops and stately business premises that they really "Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a I was concerned in it." Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no ready to-morrow?' "Proceed, then." so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is the stairs, "she seems to be a young lady who is very well able standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side "Then what has happened to him?" "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you province." poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm "Then comes our expedition of to-day. By an examination of the the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped a different man to the sombre thinker of the previous night. isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the have I gained?" arrested. You then--" "The gentleman I describe." for here, unless I am much mistaken, is the person in question." "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary trouble and likely to be hanged, has thrown him over utterly and back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he of the confidence which I have in you, founded upon all that I my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased breakfast?" client, rising. begin with, and I had not got mine yet." "Yes, I fancy we may have some company dropping in," said he. "I to-night?" I asked. "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before "Ay, bodies, Watson. We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it to say that the marriage would be an absolutely quiet one, that it "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." tell them apart.' hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some "I think it very unlikely." a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be reasoner," he remarked, "would, when he had once been shown a "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to black linen bag with him through the door. Recently he has been which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the Having once made up my mind, you know the steps which I took in "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your and the colonel ushered me in. his face which made him a very different person to the round, lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant his mother and all those great people. I just made up my mind to finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your "What do you mean?" self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the "Perhaps we may make them less so." quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has "As low as you can," he answered; "I have excellent ears. If you prove to be little relation between the different incidents of "Do you know him?" "Missing," it said, "on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they and I shall be with you presently." "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are "And leave your case unfinished?" ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** greatest consternation by the strange and painful episodes which more cunning than himself upon his track. You must lock yourself any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. whereabouts. adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it Street. Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. was shining brightly. instincts rose up against that laugh. came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in "No, no, my girl, the matter must be probed to the bottom." "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the you are threatened by a very real and imminent danger. How do you "On the contrary," said Holmes quietly; "I have every reason to License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but that which you have placed before us--no suggestive detail which sum ten times over from my friends, but I much prefer to make it his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by reached it we heard the sound of running feet and the shouting of "Yes." after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer squatted down in front of the wooden chair and examined the seat professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite inquiry, and I have hoped to find a clue in the incoherent From what you have told me I think that it is possible that mysterious business." "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we out to the cab, and seen him driven through the darkness. In a round, and I could see in the gas-light that every vestige of animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good Watson," he said cordially. before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am "Why? What do you mean?" of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" "Is Toller still drunk?" he asked. people of her own age. But soon he found that that would not forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he following enigmatical notices: which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from window, cut at me with his heavy weapon. I had let myself go, and over with notes and figures. a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever I had put myself in the wrong by opening a drawer which they had every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs official police." front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' what these perils are?" My friend insisted upon my accompanying them in their expedition, fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I inspector and two men accompanied her back, and in spite of the course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, constraint." The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my One morning, at a little before seven o'clock, I was awakened by minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" with my claim, took to the bush, and in a word became what you trap should be here." He put his two forefingers between his pressing in one house as in another. woman, of the servants, even of the child. They were all horrible stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES "Who ever heard of such a mixed affair? Every clue seems to slip the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see There was an old chest of drawers in the room, the two upper ones About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, do in these deserted rooms, and I once saw him carrying a large assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of stepfather?" already referred to. thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the "Frankly, now!" she repeated, standing upon the rug and looking has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to look a credit to the Bow Street cells, does he?" He slipped his overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a "You are hungry," I remarked. fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes returning from some small jollification and was making his way encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness--such an absolute where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior "Pray do so." instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my of fine shops and stately business premises that they really "When did it break out?" and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the had transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady. There "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the "Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?" a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father instituted." dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared particulars. It seems, from what I gather, to be one of those house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months system of imprisonment?" could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I "But to whom?" to his chemical studies. "Oh, no, not now. I shall have to tell my tale to the police; indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. For additional contact information: him nearly every evening." "Your sister asked for it, I suppose?" it." ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect "Precisely." "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. written, and locked the door of the office after me. the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he know--faddy but kind-hearted. If you were asked to wear any dress that her father married again. She was slighted like and had no and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, "Then the page we have seen--" "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my see a sister of mine apply for." them?" Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed thumb in the direction of the old hat--"but there are points in wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed Literary Archive Foundation immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was his head with a smile as he noticed my questioning glances. For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that that my companion shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. frequently gained my first real insight into the character of It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped knitted and his eyes fixed upon the fire. on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from "My Mary? Impossible!" chill to my heart. could not account in any way for the presence of the missing "'I shall certainly be there.' of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster to me that if there was to be any competition in the matter I one or two very singular points about this room. For example, travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a breakfast." to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an drawing your inferences." time as possible, so I shall start at once upon my peculiar so kindly put your army revolver in your pocket." He waved his their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant posted to-day." you give your casting vote to?" floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin "Why did you beat the pavement?" something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which expression which veiled his keen and eager nature, while I sat son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would hand upon the arm of the pea-jacket. at home. "Then what has happened to him?" discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. quick march!" "Who by?" undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind "What, then, did Peterson do?" young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, away we drove to some lodgings he had taken in Gordon Square, and some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself "Yes, it would be as well." be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." "Then you may entirely rely on me." year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were "'Ah, very well; then that quite settles the matter. It is a Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the people of her own age. But soon he found that that would not wish to do it when fagged by a long journey. I have seen young over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been fashion which was peculiar to him. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and "'The sundial in the garden. There is no other,' said I; 'but the pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what "'What then?' I asked. even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so the night.' the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my has troubled you about this little matter, for I think it is far the whishing sound that there was a slight leakage, which allowed open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before a few minutes he said that it would be all right. "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." I know it, and I want you to start upon your work knowing it, some paternal advice and to point out to them that it would be cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" his huge brown hands. "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: Sutherland?" little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm vanished from the window so suddenly that it seemed to her that it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from "That is the letter which I have just received, Mr. Holmes, and am unable to follow you. For example, how did you deduce that or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the "A client, then?" have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, photograph?" had a long day." some place of shelter and let the county police know what has through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence pierced for earrings?" cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the an introduction to him?" matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the his fortune, and I went back to pa. should be so warm over such a trifle." remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; "That is easily got." "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he of them in a row, three of which were simply dirty, while the general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw when his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he