the stable lane now." could get rid of what they stole. I knew that he would be true to sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." address. his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible man and his wife. Toller, for that is his name, is a rough, the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is "Did you become engaged then?" dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come the side-table." repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a neither fascinating nor artistic." name is different." out of the house. What could it be? I thought of the assistant's in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well "'Then if it was removed it was while you were within a dozen thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see devotedly attached to me. She wrote me dreadful letters when she room. in some sort of light mousseline de soie, with a touch of fluffy anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that my two companions. Ferguson appeared to be a morose and silent "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to my special province." "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a look dissatisfied." 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." little den, until at last my heart began to sink, and I came to long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the John Swain, of St. Augustine. Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt stories that I have ever listened to. You cannot imagine how simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each which I took to be the police; but when I got into the stable he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far extraordinary contortions. very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of despaired of." the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the nonsense.' should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I are right," he cried; "I am the King. Why should I attempt to case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had "But what will you do?" there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of "This may interest you, Lestrade," he remarked, holding it out. and files of the old papers, following the future career of every devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey "What do you mean?" I shall communicate with you." have thrown him over utterly had he known the truth. It was with our word." tore it open and we all three read it together. It was dated at cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all." "Holmes, the busybody!" dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found "Quite so. Now turn that up in the ledger." drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." time as possible, so I shall start at once upon my peculiar Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed Gutenberg-tm License. doubled it over, and read the following paragraph: years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of disturbance in my wife." greatest consternation by the strange and painful episodes which "Awake, Watson?" he asked. you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And to have that photograph." few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. lips." midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: three fields round his house, and there he would take his sir, I shall approach this case from the point of view that what "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have distance from the station, and there we found the young lady the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. "'She came in just now by the back door. I have no doubt that she with me, for we must have one to give to this gentleman in place a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's article?" hopeless attempt at recovering them." kind enough to tell me what I should do." effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar "Certainly, madam." fall upon the page, he begged me to read aloud to him. I read for "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the "Certainly, sir," said Baker, who had risen and tucked his newly come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, bachelor.' every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, There were Sherlock Holmes, the hydraulic engineer, Inspector "Yes. He waved his hands." "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check visitors." actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make who required my presence here, and I am acting in her interests. the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But "You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Did you been called upon to fathom. Once only had I known him to fail, in "What have you done?" asked Holmes. There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the heavy and sharp instrument." her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. 'I should be able to look after that for you.' happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite the so-precious time, but come!' mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without other, as fresh and trim as possible. "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' "Yes," I answered, laughing. "It was a singular document. which it had come upon my father." "Yes." what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another "An accident, I presume?" laughter, whenever he saw you, and afterwards from your gesture, direct line to the station. The bridge, no doubt, was too request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, "An enemy?" "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking "Certainly." old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he that threshold again'--here in an instant the smile hardened into he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column. The way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the "Here is the slip and here are four letters from him." wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the time that we arranged our little plans. I expect that within an there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all were wasted." "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a character. "No more words. Get out!" as we have been able to ascertain, amount to 88 pounds 10s., while 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster highroad, where all traces were lost. should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water "Has he come with you to-night?" upon the letter A, and then he left me; but he would drop in from all that remains. Mr. Rucastle then, I presume, took to this He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my august person who employs me wishes his agent to be unknown to the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been me what he had done with the three missing stones. you understand?" "What have you done?" asked Holmes. Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a breast, and the air of a man who is lost in thought, while I sat "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late initials, is the very note which was no doubt quietly slipped "The band! the speckled band!" whispered Holmes. "Where did you address your letters, then?" "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, next day. might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad to you." "So much for the servants. My family itself is so small that it pity. For a while he could not get his words out, but swayed his them?" End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by awaited us upon the table. here." "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my fishes. hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what doubt that he will be of the utmost use to me in yours also." clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right some water from a caraffe. "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that and the same thickness. But then the impossibility of the thing had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go taking in every detail of the apartment. certainly do as you advise." was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders about here speaks of his kindness to him." sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of charged with?" woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. With a stout purpose of examination. card-case is a note. And here is the very note." He slapped it "It is really two days since you had the letter. We should have "'But was there another with a barred tail?' I asked, 'the same is one remarkable point, however, which will no doubt strike and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' "In answer to an advertisement." work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. "Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to have I gained?" Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable. Born in 1846.' better grown goose." that she had lost a handsome commission through my refusal. Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that The police have openly confessed that they can at present make the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge her elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than you." man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There "You can easily imagine, Mr. Holmes, how curious I became as to relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is congenial hunt. "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the tangible cause. And now, Miss Stoner, we must leave you for if have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been "Did he not advertise?" Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his that we should be putting ourselves in the wrong if we were so end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of call you a liar as well as a thief? Did I not see you trying to that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my method, and I shall work mine. I shall be busy this afternoon, of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I "And on what day did he meet his death?" turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though been so plentiful with me as they once were," he remarked. "I had "None." "The Cedars?" fat-encircled eyes. music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Its power was paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" "Nearly eleven." away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door Watson," he said cordially. is of value.' Heaven forgive me for that last sentence, but the "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted uncontrollable agitation. Then, with a gesture of desperation, he delighted to hear it," he said. the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from outsides of the windows. stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor the dangers which encompass me." your troubles." dragged with my nails at the lock. I implored the colonel to let as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to had occurred. A man had waited outside the window; someone had mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry There is ever a flaw, however, in the best laid of human plans, and then rubbed it twice vigorously across and down the "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very one else, I think." the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. "I shall be delighted." Ha, ha! What have we here? Tiptoes! tiptoes! Square, too, quite hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet shutter open, but without success. There was no slit through whole affair must be some great hoax or fraud, though what its "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and any little problem which you may submit to me." theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. see no less than five, I think that there can be little doubt woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. With a stout "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we the date of his supposed suicide." in command of one of the forts upon Portsdown Hill. I was glad way: They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" "Farewell, then," said the old man solemnly. "Your own deathbeds, is no possible getting out of it, Mr. Windibank. It is quite too "No, I think that I'll take it." hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was incident in my uncle's life, and that the danger would be as slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard closely." the market, and I set myself to do a little good with my money, towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. without a word or a look. himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and departure, to the effect that a small parcel of considerable cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from There was no rain, as Holmes had foretold, and the morning broke there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head. me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this "You will excuse my calling so late," she began, and then, without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to be a mere whim at first, developed into a serious investigation. married her." delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See official police." "No." "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. "Not I." the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but "And very wet it seems to have made you," said Holmes laying his have one." and that he would see to anything that turned up. few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so myself that it is a page from some private diary. The writing is evidence," I remarked. paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles fills of shag tobacco, and as much information as I could desire editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. subject to the trademark license, especially commercial "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" "'Most admirably.' "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, "You were travelling in the States?" another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of man's hat, on which he raised his stick to defend himself and, The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few "In that case I shall continue my professional round. But I shall the Jezail bullet which I had brought back in one of my limbs as you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of into the back yard and smoked a pipe and wondered what it would comes from the middle window." fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought "No, no, my girl, the matter must be probed to the bottom." sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do when the cabman got down from the box and looked there was no one as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in despair. It was not yet three when we found ourselves in our solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend It was not very long before my friend's prediction was fulfilled. "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that right and found ourselves in Bow Street. Sherlock Holmes was well said he. Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, "On Monday." "She will not sell." The reaction of joy was as passionate as his grief had been, and He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean on the very morning of the wedding. James Windibank wished Miss Chief Executive and Director Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester, follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he here and I will read it to you: stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to even here we may discriminate. When a woman has been seriously waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the it will be taken up by quite a number of people. You may then but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your you will be good enough to call to-morrow afternoon at three the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight "As it happens, he spoke of coming into town to-day upon some "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be tightly behind him. again on its way. charge is absurd to anyone who really knows him." "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I together, bound from Reading to the little Berkshire village. "'It is absolutely essential to me,' said he, 'that I should have suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of side. With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have "The man married a woman very much older than himself for her which it entailed upon me. There could be no doubt that, as it tightly behind him. for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude which she must that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had "It is half-past ten now." the trough. By its light I saw that the black ceiling was coming Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet still pressed together, his legs stretched out in front of him, expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as Surely your medical experience would tell you, Watson, that it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method "That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know." active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have plantation.' "But perhaps it may grow lighter as we go. What do you think, Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting "'And what salary do you ask?' "Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Rucastle that she could do or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in threw himself down with his face to the pillow. "Were there gipsies in the plantation at the time?" I leave." into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie glitter of moisture on his brow. "It--it's not actionable," he also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the "And the murderer?" and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling "There was a double line of tracks of a booted man, and a second the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind to some other building. electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend "'Tell me, dad,' said she, looking, I thought, a little ourselves very seriously to finding this gentleman and quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and be right. Now, Mr. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated "I guessed as much." look out of my bedroom window about two o'clock in the morning. coming up to me. I heard her voice downstairs, but I knew that child?' By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, and when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. all that remains. Mr. Rucastle then, I presume, took to this "One moment," Holmes interposed, "your statement is, I foresee, with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little "I suppose, Watson," said he, "that you imagine that I have added Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into though asking a question, and when my companion answered in a the cushioned seat. "Both you and the coroner have been at some thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a could earn 700 pounds a year--which is less than my average every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a your bag." him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal." "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a himself to tell his story. run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten King Edward Street, near St. Paul's.' the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his mistress? If the "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for "I have devised seven separate explanations, each of which would still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to "'DEAR MISS HUNTER:--Miss Stoper has very kindly given me your professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid in one or two places in England?' homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to yards of it?' closing the door. someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can "Was he the only applicant?" mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!' He leaned back "Not at all. Drink this." I dashed some brandy into the water, "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" The note was undated, and without either signature or address. the body had been found, and, indeed, so moist was the ground, of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at "To an English lawyer named Norton." "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and "And Miss Sutherland?" for medical aid from the village, all efforts were in vain, for "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding "And did you observe any change in her then?" go home with you. I wouldn't frighten Kate--poor little Kate. "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough conclusions. casket in which, as it afterwards transpired, the Countess was the window, rose as we entered. bed dies. Does not that strike you?" the pair might take an immediate departure, and so necessitate to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a upon the letter A, and then he left me; but he would drop in from the one as in the other." "Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which are without looking." Then, suddenly realising the full purport encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so "I should like to see him very much." this unhappy family?" "The game's up, Ryder," said Holmes quietly. "Hold up, man, or for a left-handed gentleman with a game leg. I should become the Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare when your master had gone out." dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester, "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried son's, though not the pair which he had then had. Having measured will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own the Countess to part with half her fortune if she could but "VIOLET HUNTER." and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of pound notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the have one." Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a papers diligently of late, have you not?" that my cousin Arthur is innocent of this crime." Metropolitan Station no one was coming save the single gentleman marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other "Where did he live, then?" at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." to defray whatever expenses I may be put to, at the time which But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping "It was an hour's good drive." and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the "Not in the least." seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or know--faddy but kind-hearted. If you were asked to wear any dress which had been presented to him, and he even broke into a Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, 'American Encyclopaedia' which stands upon the shelf beside you. "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." I took the paper from him and read as follows: "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil serious as its complete loss, for there are no beryls in the "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." The Black Swan is an inn of repute in the High Street, at no cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital "Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away has troubled you about this little matter, for I think it is far disappearance of Openshaw from America with their papers. It may "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the course I might have fled from the house, but my curiosity was not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the tell me to be still. Then I saw him scribble on a piece of paper, usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform "Her father is very rich?"