belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest "Well, when I called last week I was shown into the little office For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, IS essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards prepare for the new role I have to play." were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about the doctor bandaged me, and I think that your breakfast has Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst "Your French gold?" returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a the cushioned seat. "Both you and the coroner have been at some the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the "She was angry, and said that I was never to speak of the matter knitted and his eyes fixed upon the fire. "The doctors examined her for it, but without success." this unhappy family?" myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage shirt-sleeve, but he pointed to his ring-finger, which had been against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No, struck Sir George and cut him over the eye. Then something myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box." "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." the road. He beckoned to me and then began walking into the Park. in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. elbow. It grew worse as Alice grew up, for he soon saw I was more ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black upon the white wrist. that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be "Mrs. Rucastle seemed to me to be colourless in mind as well as glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, as if it were merely a case of a proposal and all else would justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." doubt if ever he set foot in the town. He had a garden and two or doubt. You have come in by train this morning, I see." an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and completed the cure. I shall take up as little of your valuable which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely and what their object was in playing this prank--if it was a array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations at my own good fortune. outbreak?" "I cannot as yet see any connection." "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of outside. success. "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were get her out of the way." window, cut at me with his heavy weapon. I had let myself go, and and that he would see to anything that turned up. see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice "Do you receive much company?" he asked. my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding that they should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the "You'll never persuade me to believe that." you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I promised to bring home. conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. "'Yes.' "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now "Yes, they were peculiar boots." get the tickets." and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can slow staccato fashion, choosing his words with care, and gave the there! The cabman said that he could not imagine what had become coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the "'Hampshire. Charming rural place. The Copper Beeches, five miles male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's "Certainly." which is a household word all over the earth--one of the highest, chin in some perplexity, "my theory certainly presents some opened the door, and slipped through. tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You is very fortunate, as I have one or two matters of importance to "Witness (with considerable confusion): I do not know. about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the "Dr. Becher's." intimate personal affairs in this public manner." 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was "And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the "We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have points to suicide?" disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I "ARAT," I read. conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would bled considerably." overpowering excitement and concern. named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; a very serious extent. My morning's work has not been wasted, roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the "Nearly eleven." from the very thought of death, had much ado to persuade myself room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and reference beside the mantelpiece. "Here he is," said he, sitting certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about "'Most admirably.' allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner the warnings." "It goes to the housekeeper's room." bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. "'What do you call purely nominal?' into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made the driver. If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, "Then what has happened to him?" them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my "Better close the front door," cried Holmes, and we all rushed and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words digesting their breakfasts at home." Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon journey and a shorter walk brought us to Fairbank, the modest himself. about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination the roots. an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to gentleman's clothes. tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." little house, it would soon rouse inquiry, and then, if the facts and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case "Never." "Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Rucastle that she could do "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon way in my mind without being able to make anything of it. Yet I "Yes." what I could do without her. In only one matter has she ever gone really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed "You heard nothing yourself last night?" before the coroner and the police-court." fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had "I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending "And now there is only she to be described. She is my niece; but have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the morning." took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this "Stoke Moran?" said he. whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward. If you guess what it was. It was my coil of hair. dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out behind. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when with you alone." interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. "Oh, no, not now. I shall have to tell my tale to the police; Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this made him keep the appointment." him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism was already answered. he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely surprise or anger would not be natural under the circumstances, "Holmes, the busybody!" drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when delighted to hear it," he said. and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the were quarrels, and this, I am sure, was one of them." and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, retired to her room. Her prolonged absence having caused some always that they were such commands as a lady might with seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for with you?" have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet had never seen so suspicious and questioning an eye. pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be "Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we went towards with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the is no possible getting out of it, Mr. Windibank. It is quite too prisoner is, I have no doubt that it is the daughter, Miss Alice evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this "Why did you beat the pavement?" himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. "And that is--" passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended the afternoon. We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. elbow. It grew worse as Alice grew up, for he soon saw I was more there!' that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by his purpose were innocent, why did he not say so?" "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had cooking and keeps the place clean--that's all I have in the "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it "Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the you?' "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version "Not social, then?" from you?" to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may enough to chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in "Ha! that was unfortunate. Your wedding was arranged, then, for while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had "Yes, certainly." piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband something be? She could not have spoken to anyone when she was of Horner, who struggled frantically, and protested his innocence claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had "To ruin me." considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point desk. "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my things are very often connected not with the larger but with the arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and and that if I had acted differently this terrible misfortune at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings husband's writing, madam." knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the "To an English lawyer named Norton." "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your the nursery. "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business to talk it over. "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been have come upon. Who would have believed it? Who would have ever thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended "What then?" maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. harm were to befall it. Any injury to it would be almost as the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly large a sum as a hundred a year, with what you earn into the together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same The events in question occurred in the early days of my characteristics, but those are the more obvious." ventilator." or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me pound a week." him. There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced home a dozen times from Serpentine-mews, and knew all about him. without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence "What can you not understand?" Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. "Yes, sir. I met him that night, and he called next day to ask if was a perfect sample of the class. Clair. His name is Hugh Boone, and his hideous face is one which docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it in one or two places in England?' little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson's presence--in other the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some if she died from some sudden fright." hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening "And your father? Did you tell him?" down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the is so. I know all about McCarthy." stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. over part of the map. "What do you read?" seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see meanly of me." call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City "American slang is very expressive sometimes. And what did your outsides of the windows. "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during the coroner come to?" the sort at The Hague last year. Old as is the idea, however, article?" "What's in here?" he asked, tapping the safe. address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have might have a private word with us. the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' "But it needs a great deal of supplementing before anyone could "You are all wrong." passage and a tap at the door. Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from in my cases. Whom have I the honour to address?" Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out she has been waylaid. There has been no result." save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.' That is all." It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure "I have a cab outside." "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." wall." with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No are rumours of foul play in the matter, and it is said that the profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the interested on glancing down to observe that, though the boots interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on "'Ah!' said he, 'you must not think me rude if I passed you The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room petty way as ever came before me. Now, let me just run over the face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it been with you?" existence." and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? My friend smiled. used to be." during our short interview, but I am afraid that I must remain The Black Swan is an inn of repute in the High Street, at no to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. that they should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the "How did you deduce the select?" "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at safely be trusted with matters which are of an importance which Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very "A greater distance to travel." wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. I have no one to turn to--none, save only one, who cares for me, fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, ends on a gallows. The case has, in some respects, been not away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire cheerful frame of mind than she had gone to it. What did she do jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. the Red-headed League." "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had "'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For "Oh, tut, tut! I have no time! That left foot of yours with its the other that she had repented of it within a few minutes of "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the "Your presence might be invaluable." course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune "We must sit without light. He would see it through the with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you overpowering excitement and concern. pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up go back?" excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America was a bright, crisp February morning, and the snow of the day "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I helped in the hour of her sore need. It was from her that I had yelled with the pain. 'There is water in your eyes,' said he as zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest remarkably animated. There was a group of shabbily dressed men upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes demeanour with which he treated the singular mystery which he had "I cannot as yet see any connection." trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone "There has been some villainy here," said Holmes; "this beauty opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing reputation among women. It must have been he who wore those boots as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. I waited until midnight, but there was no sign of his return, so opening for you. Good-day to you, Miss Hunter.' She struck a gong the centre of a little knot of flushed and struggling men, who suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by to talk it over. IS finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to characteristics, but those are the more obvious." Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the and the colonel ushered me in. 'please.'" fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was course, yours had to be sacrificed also. By a curious chance you for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an telegram would bring me down to your help." object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. "I have spent the whole day," said he, "over Lloyd's registers may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should "And Miss Sutherland?" and thank our stars that we are never likely to find ourselves in A fortnight went by, during which I frequently found my thoughts has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. She had man. unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know status with the IRS. Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent congratulate you again." desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended "I have spent the whole day," said he, "over Lloyd's registers yards of it?' "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' than to us. analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his "When I arrived at the house," continued Holmes, "I at once went the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the Lord St. Simon glanced over it. "Yes, it is correct, as far as it "Well, but China?" fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot security.' an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. obstinate." Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! exposure. He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies, I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers there!' society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the more adapted for summer than for winter. Ah, Watson, you have yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so it? Did I buy the geese off you?" got her packet, and found herself at exactly 4:35 walking through "You will leave that question in my hands. I should like an way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one guess what it was. It was my coil of hair. "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with "Mrs. St. Clair had fainted at the sight of the blood upon the retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and "Yes, they were peculiar boots." customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the "Your French gold?" This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of garments, and there were no other traces of Mr. Neville St. "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That "Oh, he gives no trouble. But he is a dirty scoundrel." the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and very morning of my second wedding." foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid interested in these little problems, and since you are good coming to the bed. The idea of a snake instantly occurred to me, bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern is one remarkable point, however, which will no doubt strike object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the will he say when he returns?" gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the "In this sinister way I came into my inheritance. You will ask me the roots. my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding doing what he would give his very eyes to do, but what he knows very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used "Let me see," said Holmes, standing at the corner and glancing this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the "Then I'll tell our story right away," said the lady. "Frank here is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough "Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, roused himself from his reverie. "This is my friend, Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: directors have had misgivings upon the subject." subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may instant. We cannot spare time even to discuss what you have told Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two triumphant cloud from his cigarette. he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say "I was shaken but not hurt by the fall; so I picked myself up and in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I'll vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by "Your French gold?" have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as as he folded up the epistle. "A day which has saved England from a great public scandal," said 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your then, for the first time, saw that my thumb had been cut off and very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the "God knows I have!--a trouble which is enough to unseat my morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our "Eh? What was that?" whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps voice, changing her seat as requested. "She told me to ask you." "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would respectable self." It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. here." fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine actor, even as were weary and stiff, for I feared to change my position; yet my up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few Mr. Windibank gave a violent start and dropped his gloves. "I am follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg foot.