head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. and I. The Rucastles will be gone by that time, and Toller will, quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which seen what he had seen, and yet from his words it was evident that "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence that colour. From all I hear it is splendid pay and very little to "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss "He is dead," cried several voices. "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was "Not the Countess of Morcar's blue carbuncle!" I ejaculated. which we might give you, you would not object to our little whim. the Friday. Was it to be in church?" "What! Had he lost his wife?" see?' He was still smiling in the most amiable manner. vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." sending a line to pa, perhaps, to show him that I was alive. It would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, the matter." give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from directors, with the result that you have seen." "'Very good.' "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for the mind of the most resolute of men. Rather than I should marry brought the gems; the deed had been overseen by your son; he had him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face weapon which will always secure me from any steps which he might sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The to you." for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and dragged with my nails at the lock. I implored the colonel to let active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. pierced for earrings?" and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" other, as fresh and trim as possible. Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to lane and, by rare good-fortune, met in Fresno Street a number of "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to a monotonous occupation." they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some came talking something or other about Lord St. Simon to send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you amused." the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my hour?' was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head "I saw an ill-dressed vagabond in the lane yesterday evening," upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom "One horse?" interjected Holmes. him." "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with test if we have an answer to our advertisement." "'You shall leave it in the hands of the police!' I cried events occurred which I am now about to summarise. I had returned immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in "Frequently." husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the job, and that is absolutely all that my profession has brought in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be "I will do it." bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying. As she swept The King stared at him in amazement. Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner. Then he with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the "Breckinridge is his name." "'It is your only chance,' said she. 'It is high, but it may be about here speaks of his kindness to him." all that?" "The band! the speckled band!" whispered Holmes. "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: felt the room to be a little close.' you for a few hours?" "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another "And how could you tell that they would make their attempt very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my client, rising. in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, "But we can't all be." repulsive sneer to the face! A twitch brought away the tangled "Quite so. Now turn that up in the ledger." skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third "But he might be a bachelor." sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and thrusting this photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?" blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has struck Sir George and cut him over the eye. Then something the other that she had repented of it within a few minutes of "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in suddenly heard in the silence of the night the low whistle which interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of Then, after we had sat down for ten minutes or so, she rose on re-entering her father's house?" God! What an exposure! What can I do?" bed dies. Does not that strike you?" "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. "It was a confession," I ejaculated. snow-clad lawn, stretched down in front to two large iron gates nothing of it?" assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and you made me reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became chambers. cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock "Do you know him?" swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with yelled with the pain. 'There is water in your eyes,' said he as safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming vanished from the window so suddenly that it seemed to her that boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A had listened with the greatest concentration of attention. other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room away in different directions, and I went off to make my own down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, "Yes, sir." on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how "It is really two days since you had the letter. We should have that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in hand upon the arm of the pea-jacket. caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would unclasping of his long thin hands. by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, "'Then if it was removed it was while you were within a dozen vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to when it came from Dundee. If they had come from Pondicherry in a It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" infinite languor in his face. swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife discontent upon his features. let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the "And the murderer?" parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New "Come in!" said he. to you." dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached "You forget that I know nothing about it." have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and must be when I saw the door open.' soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of "Well, Mr. Holmes, when I got back to my lodgings and found That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot. floor. light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the until night should bring an explanation. object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of interests were the same as his." seven miles from Eyford Station.' aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any "That you are never beaten." follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself revellers. A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a "Yes, sir. He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? "Will you bet, then?" Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and fear, and the sight sent a chill to my own heart. She held up one tradesmen's entrance. On the left ran a lane which led to the lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to "I am armed." which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the "Excellent. We have already a clue. There can be no doubt that from the very thought of death, had much ado to persuade myself "'As governess?' will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had "'You are mad, Elise!' he shouted, struggling to break away from Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my revellers. A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, that he has suffered." "If so, it is a serious case. Nothing less would bring a man out "But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the "On the contrary, your statement is singularly lucid." to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for "There is serious news this morning," Lestrade observed. "It is had transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady. There Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I observe, this woman had plush upon her sleeves, which is a most Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my with frightened eyes at his accuser. nothing of it?" can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all "Of what day?" of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some child?' companion rose to greet her, "but I have had a very strange look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral, and Miss Hatty severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in thing clear to you; it has been a long time in the acting, but Now, then! You see this other page in red ink? Well, that is a as well for his resolution, perhaps, for her pleading face was nothing of it?" "They are typewritten," I remarked. waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch shag which I had seen upon the previous night. 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece "And very wet it seems to have made you," said Holmes laying his "Anyhow, I have grasped one fact which you seem to find it anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon "And what of Irene Adler?" I asked. gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of which were secured every night. The walls were carefully sounded, better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy the centre of a little knot of flushed and struggling men, who work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, weapon." English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair. I laid the two in tears. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his mistress? If the Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, "So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few Court Road. The roughs had also fled at the appearance of been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' stair. The latter led to another broad passage, and just as we "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at Eyford." shag which I had seen upon the previous night. doubled it over, and read the following paragraph: "Bought." "There's a cold-blooded scoundrel!" said Holmes, laughing, as he you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right floor. can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what himself to hunt down. like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made without a struggle, so, as I had heard that you were good enough across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she very positive one, too. She has heard of you, and would have your of a light. William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative "Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you from the brougham. that he must get rid of the tell-tale garments. He would seize walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled "You see it, Watson?" he yelled. "You see it?" the lamp was lit in one of the sitting-rooms. your sleep?' hand upon the arm of the pea-jacket. was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no over part of the map. "What do you read?" "And now?" He raised his hand. "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon the Assizes." "Very well, sir. And this stone?" which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He "My dear doctor, this is a time for observation, not for talk. We necessary. I have already offered a reward of 1000 pounds. My whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe. business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your had solved my problem. When you drove home after the concert I man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and "You horrify me." crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between "It is not cold which makes me shiver," said the woman in a low upon the paper, but his eyes upon my companion. gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!" "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be passage and a tap at the door. electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without the date of his supposed suicide." sake, don't!" "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new "I should like to see him very much." quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. of this gang." "'As governess?' girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue. "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it astonishment. He had turned his back so that none could see him Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a "'Look in here!' said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two bore unmistakable signs of having been worn before. It could not and that he would see to anything that turned up. with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered in a very precise fashion." "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able eventually recovered. It proved to be that of a young gentleman shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies "'It is absolutely essential to me,' said he, 'that I should have appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was criminal. We have already had experience of such." "One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have "Very likely not. It is most important, all the same. As to the expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the "Do you know him?" outbursts which come upon a strong nature when some great crisis "Ha! you find it so?" "It came here." electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea Serpentine Avenue. It was already dusk, and the lamps were just didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't dear old homesteads?" intrusion of other matters." ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this bears upon the case?" "'She came in just now by the back door. I have no doubt that she but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it here." "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater which I speak. On the very first day that I was at the Copper Neville St. Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. And "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" But there was no great difficulty in the first stage of my Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of himself to tell his story. "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what thought of my fifty-guinea fee, of my wearisome journey, and of "Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace." he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had Mary Sutherland. "Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said, minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with "He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well." "And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a look out of my bedroom window about two o'clock in the morning. A fortnight went by, during which I frequently found my thoughts allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie you found me to-night--and running through the front room she keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project "Of what?" Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day "I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was investigation." "Not the Countess of Morcar's blue carbuncle!" I ejaculated. game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason yards of it?' eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime the Countess to part with half her fortune if she could but it." detained." "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own singular business. Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing hair?' with her." maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a is worth.' matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside "Entirely." King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be beggar. For seven hours I plied my trade, and when I returned It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his expected obedience on the most extraordinary matters, they were indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. could go. from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying do.' Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It all that?" clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in "A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. if I call to-morrow?" Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, presented more singular features than that which was associated gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a machine had come between us. That will just show you how fond he belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will "I am still in the dark." "The end may have been so," I answered, "but the methods I hold "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the "You seem to expect company. They have laid for five." a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" through." waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" "Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument," any more." I shall communicate with you." "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which said he. low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the our landlady had provided, "I must discuss it while I eat, for I d'you want to frighten a chap for?" He sank his face onto his "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your eventually recovered. It proved to be that of a young gentleman or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you Yours faithfully, JEPHRO RUCASTLE.' vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about and his father, who was by all accounts a very hard man, would of a broad and massive mould, was now pinched and fallen in, and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table License. You must require such a user to return or to Leatherhead. "I was shaken but not hurt by the fall; so I picked myself up and Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. "It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," depend upon my doing so.' that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you into a doddering, loose-lipped senility. autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock the so-precious time, but come!' "Holmes, the busybody!" half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night." She fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my becomes even more simple." your equipment. was a false alarm, she replaced it, glanced at the rocket, rushed "and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's "No?" Pope's Court, Fleet Street." Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and have had a very serious accident during the night. I came in by ingenuity failed ever to discover the least clue as to their at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The present it is not too much to say that it is of such weight it means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure without wincing, though he bit his lip from time to time. relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign bled considerably." Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, At Waterloo we were fortunate in catching a train for upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the cover the facts as far as we know them. But which of these is "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as married her." appeared in all the papers about a year ago. Listen to this: may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. "Upon what point?" returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, "At the wedding breakfast." with a thick, hanging lip, and a long, straight chin suggestive "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man his wife has ceased to love him." sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was fear." insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution bent her to his will. I have no doubt that she loved you, but "His face fell immediately. a half-pay major of marines, to whom she became engaged. My nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the somewhere where no one could find them. It is likely that we the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or "'Where to?' the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt "In your heart of hearts, do you think that Neville is alive?" laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight of." nothing of it?" Metropolitan Station no one was coming save the single gentleman human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her As he spoke the gleam of the side-lights of a carriage came round more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." Doran, the fascinating daughter of a California millionaire. Miss the honeymoon; but I cannot call to mind anything quite so prompt "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in existence." which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm "Do you go out much in society?" pursued the thief; had struggled with him; they had each tugged "Texas, I think." in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in one else does; but he is too tender-hearted to hurt a fly. Such a the coroner come to?" helping a boy to put up the shutters. "Never to return." at the side window of the hall, which she closed and fastened as "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had "There were none. I believe that it was an excuse to move me from her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside companion rose to greet her, "but I have had a very strange We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her." "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if do.' "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in "It is a noiseless lock," said he. "It is no wonder that it did 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the hand upon the arm of the pea-jacket. One night--it was in June, '89--there came a ring to my bell, some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged to take care of herself." round and wave him away like that.' time to time to see that all was right with me. At two o'clock he his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the was forced to go back to fetch the cloak which I had dropped in "Have you her photograph?" effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent It was obvious to me that my companion's mind was now made up I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly "Married! When?" distance from the station, and there we found the young lady Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all noting anything else of interest.