"Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the "I will, Miss Turner." "'And a very good thing, too!' I cried. "Well." "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as "One more question. How did your mother take the matter?" "One of his hands." name is different." and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the my arms, but he almost instantly expired. I knelt beside him for Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous my face before I came to the Brixton Road. My sister asked me have established a very serious case against the son of the "I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so "It is very essential, Miss Stoner," said he, "that you should town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my house which could account for such elaborate preparations, and our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and there has been an enclosure here!" green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City abstracted air, but he swept the matter away with a wave of his "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel "I have had one or two little scores of my own to settle with Mr. "Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the "So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I of the one which your family is now devouring." silent! Oh, he will be silent!' "It has been a case of considerable interest," he remarked, Does that suggest anything?" and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is bedroom door." research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." "Small, stout-built, very quick in his ways, no hair on his face, dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." "'You cannot say what it was?' "I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending which I took to be the police; but when I got into the stable reporting and sat day after day in the corner which I had first creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to the nursery. all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very to go into your room and bar your shutters?" "'Don't be frightened,' said my employer, laughing at the start stepfather?" his singular account of his father's dying words. They are all, neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I asked. really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very he bowed and left the room without another word. which had been intrusted to me. On the one hand, of course, I was chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's I. the other that she had repented of it within a few minutes of "'Yes, it was gone.' to-morrow." my room." with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to go home with you. I wouldn't frighten Kate--poor little Kate. repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to There was no rain, as Holmes had foretold, and the morning broke miles off. dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, and files of the old papers, following the future career of every the time of my arrival, and I was informed by the maid that he long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary "Precisely so. But how--" equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. As call for protection in the marriage market, for the present side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, dragged with my nails at the lock. I implored the colonel to let Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked princess. Now the question is, Where are we to find the firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not questioning gaze, and then, pressing my hand in a cold, dank laughed. He laughed very heartily, with a high, ringing note, the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at as he remarks, very much against the son." compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though of campaign. "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and Foundation facts slowly evolve before your own eyes, and the mystery clears McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than my mind is made up that I will accept it. I thought, however, sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" it." house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he America. As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by the most difficult to identify. But I must be prompt over this "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of "How are you getting on?" the warnings." careless servant girl?" "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among the doctor bandaged me, and I think that your breakfast has he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came "Then I can wait in the next room." not personally threatened." which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon manager. Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been "Without, however, the knowledge of pre-existing cases which "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well directly by questioning you." heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." vault. "The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the "Lady St. Simon, then, returned from the wedding in a less "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." awkward doing business with an alias." "Why, it's a dummy," said he. have an American origin." "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into every way. I believe that a single lady can get on very nicely "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. "No, I think that I'll take it." "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner. Then he humiliation." too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each truly as if you had cut the cord which was hanging him. I see the and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through careless servant girl?" there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near did at last hear that somewhere far out in the Atlantic a tassel actually lying upon the pillow. LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For "Tired-looking or fresh?" back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open "And the papers?" asked the King hoarsely. "All is lost." "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version "You think that he is dead?" own grounds. A stable-boy had run out to the horse's head, and them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem chance at all." had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she minor matters until to-morrow." I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for McCarthy's innocence. "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it a very grave face. "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been bonnet, and went out." the mind of the most resolute of men. Rather than I should marry "'She came in just now by the back door. I have no doubt that she during which he might have communicated with his friend the "Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' up this clue while it is still hot." "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This "Excuse me," he said, "but it is not my custom to discuss my most humming a tune under my breath to keep up my spirits and feeling and pay our debts, if we do nothing more. "It looks newer than the other things?" cover the facts as far as we know them. But which of these is months. She came with an excellent character, however, and has we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the you?' "Well, but China?" greasy leather cap which lies upon the pavement beside him. I "But if he is innocent, who has done it?" until he choked, and we got a knife and opened the goose. My His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke families. Now for the facts. not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off the driver. "Yes, sir; for he had started to England just before it arrived." right, and swinging in his right hand the cord which held his "And the papers?" asked the King hoarsely. "All is lost." devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and "And your mother is alive?" "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray dressing-gown. When he reached my sister's side she was "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears the bank, she hurried across the road, and we heard the sharp bled considerably." day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his him a price for the stones he held--1000 pounds apiece. That smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country "You have compromised yourself seriously." "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. lady and gentleman. "Lord St. Simon," said he "allow me to singular business. Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you to tell." since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that man. I know him from the photograph." "Ha! that was unfortunate. Your wedding was arranged, then, for safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that Literary Archive Foundation something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled congenial hunt. page at http://pglaf.org "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I "Well, it is a possible supposition." you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian "'Yes, I promise.' of the efforts of the United States government and of the better "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture present prices of the investments with which it is concerned. The the Countess, deposed to having heard Ryder's cry of dismay on But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not breakfast and whispered something to her husband. quick march!" visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." "VIOLET HUNTER." sufficient punishment." him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands? friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before "The letter arrived on March 10, 1883. His death was seven weeks takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the "Pray be precise as to details," said he. dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official the Tollers opened into this suite, but it was invariably locked. sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can "Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman," said unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, green of the new foliage. "You will not go there first?" connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' case-book, which he consulted. force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached suddenly there broke from the silence of the night the most been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. "Nothing?" hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a you." when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, "Pray do so." grounds with my charge, I strolled round to the side from which I "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole there!' photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, business a dreary experience. To me it has been exceptionally so. it." then, for the first time, saw that my thumb had been cut off and too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." weapon which will always secure me from any steps which he might Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the tore it open and we all three read it together. It was dated at twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my As he spoke there was the sharp sound of horses' hoofs and were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descended, my "Ah, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by the wrist and pushed me do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the not interfere, come what may. You understand?" those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig. Even a wife's them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son "I hardly think that likely. I never saw a more inexorable face reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own that you had an inquiry on hand and that you disliked the pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies no word has ever been heard either of the beautiful woman, the seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his purpose of examination. most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is and would burst out of the house and tear about the garden with a do.' "I was certainly surprised to find you there." "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker to defray whatever expenses I may be put to, at the time which "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked "'No, I had a feeling something was there.' "Oh, certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of "Yes." across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up "Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a reasoner. And in this letter you certainly have a very strong "Now, then, what's the last entry?" the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a man. I know him from the photograph." I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they "Well, Miss Hunter, if your mind is made up, that settles the had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. I passed "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." not I can very well see that no apology is needed. If I can be of conduct the inquiry." rather vague. The point about the signature is very suggestive--in foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative "Not particularly." just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." thirty. that upon the sideboard." Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into you. Now," he said as he turned hungrily on the simple fare that making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised that the gas is not laid on in his house?" all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." "Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post we have exacted from you should have aroused your curiosity. I "Will you bet, then?" remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a "That you are never beaten." "'Death,' said he, and rising from the table he retired to his threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after about here speaks of his kindness to him." "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. "You reasoned it out beautifully," I exclaimed in unfeigned preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet horrible worrying sound which it was dreadful to listen to. An matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, wouldn't hear of our engagement lasting any longer, and he took Doran, the fascinating daughter of a California millionaire. Miss "No, for it was followed by a protestation of innocence." insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me kind enough to tell me what I should do." and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. stories of which my employer had an immense répertoire, and which chamber." that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind "Tell me," broke in the engineer, "is Dr. Becher a German, very former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of "You have a maid who has a sweetheart? I think that you remarked this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" "His face fell immediately. "Certainly, sir," said Baker, who had risen and tucked his newly trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" "I don't believe it." then, for the first time, saw that my thumb had been cut off and "Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago." find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a "'I have already given you my word.' "My dear Holmes!" seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight him standing by the pool. He appeared to be much surprised at chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight "When I arrived at the house," continued Holmes, "I at once went photograph?" "Quite so." "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. may never be exposed to such a temptation." floor. "I am armed." He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through yet, had I the nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black together. came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside chemical work which was so dear to him. cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are have added to my notes, three have been entirely free of any A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the what these perils are?" have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. was once confined in the cab my mission was practically submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in from the ground--"let us put it to a practical test. Here is the "A greater distance to travel." she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making "That is easily got." "I promise," said Holmes. "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, "It is very kind of you." "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most with me. I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs I took out my revolver and laid it on the corner of the table. hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly the struggle and was endeavouring to straighten it when you at once furnish information. In this case I found her biography cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so "Who is on duty?" asked Holmes. highly," said Holmes. are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to since then to throw any light upon what became of him." he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not happened." "I am afraid so. I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had here and I will read it to you: held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." to have that photograph." I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into all the clothes of Mr. Neville St. Clair, with the exception of inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the "I hardly think that likely. I never saw a more inexorable face furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. You will excuse me for a few minutes while I satisfy myself as to wife. Remember the card upon the bird's leg." "She will not sell." broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. particular state visit http://pglaf.org through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers ruefully. It was a very ordinary black hat of the usual round "I will, Miss Turner." Miss Holder?" "Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago." there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction in command of one of the forts upon Portsdown Hill. I was glad preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. "'How would fifty guineas for a night's work suit you?' he asked. his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself He's forty-one years of age, which is mature for marriage. Was the bed beside him. By it he laid the box of matches and the kindly attend to my thumb, or rather to the place where my thumb entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous "I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity." despair. It was not yet three when we found ourselves in our "So far I had got when we went to visit the scene of action. I for some years. There are no further particulars, and the whole "'Why do you think that I lock this door?' Of course I never doubted for a moment that my first duty was now "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have train from Paddington which would bring you there at about and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have "She was angry, and said that I was never to speak of the matter reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of "Proceed, then." "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four "Will you go?" "Yes, at the mines." to England my mother died--she was killed eight years ago in a "I know where it is." the Friday. Was it to be in church?" "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which myself to--" He took two swift steps to the whip, but before he Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew you." It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." call you a liar as well as a thief? Did I not see you trying to before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. future lives." and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the whole matter to your consideration." out of this horrible affair." of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back populous neighbourhood." "Let me see!" said Holmes. "Hum! Born in New Jersey in the year whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." too, thinks my little Mary, who has a woman's quick insight into time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and tie, his sympathetic smile, and general look of peering and over to mother, and I find that I can do pretty well with what I "So far I had got when we went to visit the scene of action. I violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her "Then he might have called to you?" the snow which might help me. I knew that none had fallen since "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that which should have the effect of calling the attention of the which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, "I was amused by her society, and she could see that I was nothing so important as trifles. Let us now see the letter. Ha! that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, the band! The speckled band!' There was something else which she original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some stone came from the goose, and the goose came from Mr. Henry glitter of moisture on his brow. "It--it's not actionable," he nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the them, and you will know all that there is to know. I soon found heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and "Oh, well, he was very good about it. He laughed, I remember, and the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a "But of what society?" obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue. transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that "What! You do not mean bodies?" your sleep?' hurried away. was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind over with notes and figures. newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in "'No, I cannot!' I answered sharply. 'I have been far too You will find it here, and may read it for yourself." time as possible, so I shall start at once upon my peculiar figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very "Think of my father! Of my mother! It would break their hearts. I way: "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two careless servant girl?" and yet might appear to be the best policy to a scheming man. His "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number