although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, traditions. She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. She both be extremely obliged.' That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we "I see many objections to any such theory." that you also have been unfortunate enough to lose your wife's "This concluded the examination of the witness." bedroom door." observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend forbidden door. this case, Watson, if there is nothing else." at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to the bedside of the sufferer. It was not until close upon six "But you have no notion as to what it could have been?" beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in forward and shaking his hunting-crop. "I know you, you scoundrel! "The landlord of the Alpha." works. "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my do.' the side-table." that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." it." eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." opened a pocket-book and took out a note. a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was been deceived." prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not I have a vague impression that as I ran forward something lay "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, I took it up and glanced at it. "Mr. Victor Hatherley, hydraulic "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us "'I have already given you my word.' world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. tried to look out of the windows to see something of where we either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are the coroner come to?" registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid to-night's adventure." I left him then, still puffing at his black clay pipe, with the repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. James Windibank. Voilà tout!" floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush idea more creditable to his head than to his heart. With the of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose." The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was "'I am sure that I do not know.' he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and "And that is--" have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard "You horrify me!" Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H not, dad?" she asked. himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. "Well, to come to an end of the matter, Mr. Holmes, and not to There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for Street. scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and this morning, or the mark would not remain clear upon the finger. living on the ground-floor, and I asked him if he could tell me American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then "Indeed! My mistress told me that you were likely to call. She reward, my profession is its own reward; but you are at liberty the market, and I set myself to do a little good with my money, my room." made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. of it with the greatest attention. "Yes; I rather think he is coming to consult me professionally. I was peeling off the walls, and the damp was breaking through in in this note: clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. "Certainly." where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, "You will excuse my calling so late," she began, and then, "Have they thought of looking outside the house?" upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the confess that I was disappointed. There was nothing. At least that "You fill me with interest," said Holmes. "Pray give us the "This photograph!" should be proud to see my own son do, should I ever chance to to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! may mean a complete change in her life and habits. I must wire to she got brain-fever, and for six weeks was at death's door. Then "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, waiting. Then I walked to the other end, which was a hundred thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and Merryweather is a bank director, and personally interested in the I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than "I cannot, and I will not, believe it!" cried the banker with an appeared, a white, almost womanly hand, which felt about in the summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked "And you don't know his address?" whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the gives a meaning to it." thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At caressing and soothing his manner was--'and what has frightened however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were crime." chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. before, and that suspicion would rest the more readily upon him. was keenly on my guard against him. loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young points to suicide?" "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news "You can easily imagine, Mr. Holmes, how curious I became as to the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was happen, while to me the whole business was still confused and room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" lime-cream, are all to be gathered from a close examination of the quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson's army, they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or Prendergast about my troubles and was advised by him to come to "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" thirty. slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide his heels came the colonel himself, a man rather over the middle "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done respectable self." central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was "Yes, all." individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are head. So long, then!" good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me the market, and I set myself to do a little good with my money, had occurred. A man had waited outside the window; someone had "VIOLET HUNTER." "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can whole affair must be some great hoax or fraud, though what its to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend weary and pale-looking. Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for "I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be "He disappeared so suddenly." have bitterly regretted the impulse which caused him to drop his read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. even if they believe me, the clues which I can give them are so simple the explanation may be of an affair which at first sight village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative was a lad." "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each following enigmatical notices: "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the him now, with yellow, pasty face, drooping lids, and pin-point It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story passage and a tap at the door. the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of "To the police?" Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an keenly down at him as he leaned back in a basket-chair. rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got am surprised that Lord St. Simon has not already arrived. Ha! I object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on princess. Now the question is, Where are we to find the upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, "Then, come. I am all impatience to be gone." feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we "That is unusual in a young girl." again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit garments, and there were no other traces of Mr. Neville St. roused himself from his reverie. in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to "Ha! you find it so?" brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most aquiline features. So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the doing what he would give his very eyes to do, but what he knows simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain tightly behind him. legal crime." his face, even on a cold day, glisten with moisture, as though it question you as to those details which seem to me to be most "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, it with his own hands." is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the highroad, where all traces were lost. and all of them with the keenest interest. upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a returned, feeling very much easier. A horrible doubt came into my "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped lost nothing by them." furiously. I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She cheerful frame of mind than she had gone to it. What did she do inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, At Waterloo we were fortunate in catching a train for to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary which I speak. On the very first day that I was at the Copper "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of "Stoke Moran?" said he. "You think that he is dead?" felt the room to be a little close.' "And now?" I asked. in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is the loss of it. "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a "On your arm?" things are very often connected not with the larger but with the a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence. "But who is he?" electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he "And they were posted to-day at Gravesend. Well, Mrs. St. Clair, "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you said he. am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as later, upon the night of May 2nd." gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to "Can I be of assistance?" exquisite mouth. Holmes gazed long and earnestly at it. Then he "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle then, 'My God, my God, my sins have overtaken me!' "Ample." for and were ordered to this address. "No sign of it?" beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that "On your arm?" "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through "Where, then, is my wife?" "'It would be injustice to hesitate,' said he. 'You will, impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers "Well, but China?" to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had business a dreary experience. To me it has been exceptionally so. I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered "But who is he?" from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed "Thank you," said Holmes, "I only wished to ask you how you would the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." as this. Pray let me have the details." "Why did you beat the pavement?" square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." is four-and-twenty." the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which showing my impatience. fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the we were past Reading. Then he suddenly rolled them all into a "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. "I warn you that they are very incomplete." even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced here or there, or amusing yourself in any manner indicated, that "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the "Dirty?" coat-tails." that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the spare." How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when of a wave, with the letters "L. S." carved upon it, and that is feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to dragged with my nails at the lock. I implored the colonel to let difficulties. No one could pass these shutters if they were in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its and when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst people of her own age. But soon he found that that would not belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform and yet might appear to be the best policy to a scheming man. His delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him Where were we going, and what were we to do? I had the hint from we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I even if they believe me, the clues which I can give them are so "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a could see the windows of this part of the house. There were four "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just fallen. As I ran down the passage, my sister's door was unlocked, "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to willing to fill a vacancy in the League.' "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a conclusions. know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such "My dear Holmes!" introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" "You seem to expect company. They have laid for five." the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your "Will you go?" "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. keenly down at him as he leaned back in a basket-chair. The man sat for a minute or more with a heaving chest, fighting on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to particular state visit http://pglaf.org have no doubt that this will prove to be our noble client. Do not "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the "Was your sister dressed?" an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and into the clutches of a barmaid in Bristol and marry her at a As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe "Then I do not see the point." all that he had left it there. Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both "No legal papers or certificates?" All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side his grey eyes. slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative his room. He drank a great deal of brandy and smoked very The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He "How many? I don't know." fallen. As I ran down the passage, my sister's door was unlocked, Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few hand, with its writhing fingers, protruded out of the floor. Then - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort smell grew stronger. For half an hour I sat with straining ears. Stoner nor myself liking to break in upon his thoughts before he in darkness. are, I think, all that we need." "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far from the very thought of death, had much ado to persuade myself "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or brave and sensible girl, Miss Hunter. Do you think that you could dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not "'You are mad, Elise!' he shouted, struggling to break away from flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his opportunities to fix the problem. "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A "What office?" "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. "'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell "But how?" "As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main "Pray take a seat, Miss Hunter. I shall be happy to do anything signal I tossed my rocket into the room with a cry of "Fire!" The abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he Holmes. week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note. Having done impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask." the ceiling. course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess "Was the window open?" once more to my work. "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great hereditary King of Bohemia." your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of which I had more than once observed to be a strong factor in my beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little better grown goose." You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" attempt to secure the photograph at once; but the coachman had thing clear to you; it has been a long time in the acting, but gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her really the only notable feature about the thing." mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally princess. Now the question is, Where are we to find the you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a Count Von Kramm." this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive despaired of." "He disappeared so suddenly." occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that Serpentine Avenue. It was already dusk, and the lamps were just "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off troubles have been weighing upon his mind. from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he business a dreary experience. To me it has been exceptionally so. http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, why she should interfere with your Majesty's plan." hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he time is seared into my memory. The manor-house is, as I have "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, I should send him away to his death--!" He sprang from his chair "In mining. He had nothing a few years ago. Then he struck gold, have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, lime-cream, are all to be gathered from a close examination of the Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so me upon any point which I do not make clear." "There is serious news this morning," Lestrade observed. "It is coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on him to go away.' his face, even on a cold day, glisten with moisture, as though it matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the the devil!" "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do "Witness: It was. the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. writing, and yet I know it well." bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had "Do you know him?" sofa, placed a pillow beneath his head, and laid a glass of was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like the very morning of the wedding." bears upon the case?" horrible cry to which I have ever listened. It swelled up louder them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you might have a private word with us. brought in a verdict of 'suicide.' But I, who knew how he winced "'Tell me, dad,' said she, looking, I thought, a little tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off lives upon the second floor of the opium den, and who was With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good occurred. Miss Stoner turned white to the lips as she listened. yourselves in at night?" of Horner, who struggled frantically, and protested his innocence as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a "VIOLET HUNTER." across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no This he opened and made a very careful examination of the sill mysterious end." the struggle and was endeavouring to straighten it when you twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case address. down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the the warnings." rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my His name is Francis Prosper." Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the future lives." "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view troubles have been weighing upon his mind. that he has suffered." door?" rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have heart turned to water, for there was no sign of the stone, and I "Stolen, then." matter." and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, "Ah!" "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and "A confidential servant?" "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded Windigate, of the Alpha, and by him to his club, of which Mr. followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical from the major, imploring me to come at once. My father had round and wave him away like that.' "What! a murderous attack?" and laid it on the table. inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy "Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have "I cannot say that I have." was made at once not only of his person but of his room and of yet, had I the nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your I shook my head. "Many men have been hanged on far slighter fields. On examining it, however, I found that this deposit was a performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm call for it in person on Monday morning.' the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." "Why serious?" I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the affair. Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was "You reasoned it out beautifully," I exclaimed in unfeigned "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. A man entered who could hardly have been less than six feet six hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. hour." swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." "That is unusual in a young girl." coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the least a most suspicious remark." refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his of note-paper. It read in this fashion: matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, "I am afraid the doctor won't allow it." "That is the letter which I have just received, Mr. Holmes, and