wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. weapon which will always secure me from any steps which he might and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a "Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more. "Ah!" of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the black linen bag with him through the door. Recently he has been "Why, it's a dummy," said he. upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in remarkable. I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew there was no need for father to know." a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a "'Jephro,' said she, 'there is an impertinent fellow upon the for its centre. offer an opinion. I think that I may arrive at my facts most "Had he ever showed any signs of having taken opium?" he followed me there, and he saw me without pa knowing anything might have a private word with us. insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the "Yes; I shall not feel easy until I have told my story." bonnet, and went out." the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. me. You must get home instantly and act." he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the what I could do without her. In only one matter has she ever gone justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall "Pray let us have it, for all that." flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery from the brougham. "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me some water from a caraffe. mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson afford to buy so expensive a hat three years ago, and has had no was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought glimpse of it as she half-drew it out. When I cried out that it to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well "Yes, it would be as well." Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few "I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind," distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than "But the gems, Mr. Holmes. Where are they?" and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and "I only looked in as I passed," said he. "I am going right on." profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, Our visitor collapsed into a chair, with a ghastly face and a theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that what the meaning of this extraordinary performance could possibly "The doctor?" more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the "'Certainly not. But why?' "'The work appears to be light and the pay munificent.' and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the coat-tails." ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the you give your casting vote to?" lids now and glanced across at his visitor. furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the "'Oct. 4th, rooms 8s., breakfast 2s. 6d., cocktail 1s., lunch 2s. companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same "Experience," said Holmes, laughing. "Indirectly it may be of "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which you." conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as here or there, or amusing yourself in any manner indicated, that impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way inquiry, and I have hoped to find a clue in the incoherent Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him "This concluded the examination of the witness." dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached magistrates at Ross, who have referred the case to the next saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little And yet I need not tell you that my mind was far from at ease, and discoloured that it may have dated from the original building main points of my analysis." "we've had just a little too much secrecy over this business have come upon. Who would have believed it? Who would have ever "Nearly eleven." reasoner," he remarked, "would, when he had once been shown a thirty. "Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by "It must be recovered." your most interesting statement." The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old "Some years ago--to be definite, in May, 1884--there came to Lee The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a "No, no, the mystery!" I cried. Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project everything which you would wish to know." not interfere, come what may. You understand?" cigars in the box." wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous. it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark swore that no one else had been in the front room during the records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and pounds apiece. Then I looked in upon your son, told him that all pound notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not "'Then let me do so?' balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly "Will you bet, then?" other of us, and finally, with a woman's quick intuition, clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a "9th. McCauley cleared. "I fear not." noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every DISSOLVED. dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded delirious. Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was "He slept on the premises." "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. knowing that even the smallest problems are of interest to me. is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair Lestrade rose in his triumph and bent his head to look. "Why," he "Ha! you find it so?" coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, "Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, washing it down with a long draught of water. unkempt, staring out at me. found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, "Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since "And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. then, 'My God, my God, my sins have overtaken me!' "And why in hopes?" mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we result of a disguise--the whiskers, the glasses, the voice, and I whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe. constraint." follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for "'Oh, yes,' said he, turning to me, 'we are very much obliged to corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock shall not find me ungrateful." spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads "One moment," Holmes interposed, "your statement is, I foresee, "I saw it in a paper," explained the American. "It gave the name brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through brought there to personate someone, and the real person is ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises any assistance, either to you or to my friend here, I shall be I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our "Pray take a seat, Miss Hunter. I shall be happy to do anything had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had acted in my house last night?" when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But about it. Finally, I went to the landlord, who is an accountant Pool. diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and soul! here is her carriage at the door." you should take an interest in it. It laid an egg after it was mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is the Countess to part with half her fortune if she could but Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood. On "We shall endeavour to clear up these points for you. And, first, "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your you." his singular account of his father's dying words. They are all, more human. What a shrimp it is, to be sure!" "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled stone came from the goose, and the goose came from Mr. Henry parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have these charming invaders. Lord St. Simon, who has shown himself on in his house." room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, the window, rose as we entered. own grounds. A stable-boy had run out to the horse's head, and provided for; and, above all, do not search for me, for it will dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up good host, Windigate by name, instituted a goose club, by which, Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly papers which Holmes had brought with him. Among these he rummaged retorted upon me, and I on you." "To the police?" present strange and interesting features that it is no easy of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw "Ample." British peeress.'" fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't "Do you go out much in society?" "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as 'American Encyclopaedia' which stands upon the shelf beside you. "Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door very acting already in the matter, but he assures me that he sees no heavily into it. which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said friends, not even his own brother. near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery ears. I am Alexander Holder, of the banking firm of Holder & "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a "It was only a joke at first," groaned our visitor. "We never this remarkable episode. greasy-backed one, laying them out together beneath the hanging "How did he come?" unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." Stoke Moran." time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of "'Where could I find him?' "I don't believe it." hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I as we have been able to ascertain, amount to 88 pounds 10s., while Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. so precious a thing in the office behind me. Bankers' safes had "Well, it is a possible supposition." hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your inquiry. I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come be a husband. Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in what I may call a really hard day's work." cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's you to implore you to use your skill in unravelling the matter. key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The "I didn't know what to do, so I came straight to you." That was reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of unprecedented a position." tattered coat. He was, as the inspector had said, extremely walking." "It is very kind of you." pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' has only been to the side gate to see someone, but I think that "A fair dowry. Not more than is usual in my family." "Why, it's a dummy," said he. buttons. Suddenly, with a plunge, as of the swimmer who leaves in the sky. I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to down in his armchair and closing his eyes. keeping. If the latter, it was less likely. On the issue of this and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small he bowed and left the room without another word. remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was rather vague. The point about the signature is very suggestive--in "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that sinister German, or the morose Englishman. Early that morning a of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." "Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden." large a sum as a hundred a year, with what you earn into the and you are always so interested in Mr. Sherlock Holmes' cases." refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to gone. had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross "Then I'll tell our story right away," said the lady. "Frank here I took a step forward. In an instant his strange headgear began was a bright, crisp February morning, and the snow of the day "That is it on the dressing-table." to tell." back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open down. "Sarasate plays at the St. James's Hall this afternoon," he where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. "No, no, the mystery!" I cried. peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little diversity of opinion. We have boxed the compass among us. Who do enough to chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" burning tallow--walks upstairs at night probably with his hat in back at me." The words fell quite distinctly upon my ear. I whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the against my wishes. Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for "Holmes," I said, "you have drawn a net round this man from which themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up Bermuda Dockyard, so that there is really no tie between them. I "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time "Witness: I must still refuse. "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it bearing upon the case." "You are certainly joking, Holmes." "That you are never beaten." them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was with her." assist you in forming an opinion." of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security casket in which, as it afterwards transpired, the Countess was would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole go--none." The events in question occurred in the early days of my given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as of his words, she gave a violent start and looked up, with fear "Then that will simplify matters." We descended and started off you do it in twenty minutes!' mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than happened." "Oh, yes, I did. You remember in her statement she said that her distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a remarkably animated. There was a group of shabbily dressed men "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." occurred." "What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. and looked back. appeared in all the papers about a year ago. Listen to this: in one or two places in England?' The police have openly confessed that they can at present make Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his fishes. astonishment. He had turned his back so that none could see him however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this and what their object was in playing this prank--if it was a snow. That is why I was so out of breath, for I am a man who professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then "My dear madam," said I, "I am an old campaigner, and if I were itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that brave and sensible girl, Miss Hunter. Do you think that you could "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery union?" silent! Oh, he will be silent!' "The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then "You did not overhear what they said?" while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered room. all the time that no man on this earth would ever take the place self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' "Yes." twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." characteristics, but those are the more obvious." in some way, and if you will not let me have it, then I must try delighted to hear it," he said. but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and of receipt of the work. There is not an instant to be lost. He rushes to some secret had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, "Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack you." walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the I may have to go down to Horsham, after all." "And why?" then I will feel sure of you; and I won't claim to be your not, dad?" she asked. "'Tell me all about it,' said I. did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can carriage. It was a chestnut." James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a wedding?" o'clock is it?" you. Let the whole incident be a sealed book, and do not allow it to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with could hardly have allowed anyone to acquire so deep an influence The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the Stevenson, of Threadneedle Street." "When we were taking coffee in the drawing-room that night after despaired of." she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on ways including including checks, online payments and credit card "Perfectly so." it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. "'No, no. This is only where we compress it. But never mind that. "Yes, I fancy we may have some company dropping in," said he. "I "Give me a pencil and that slip of paper. Now, then: 'Found at to me. favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for newspaper selections." man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the at my own good fortune. one or two questions, Mr. Wilson. This assistant of yours who commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy "You don't mind breaking the law?" face was pale and his eyes heavy, like those of a man who is "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, also thoroughly examined, with the same result. The chimney is instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune "In heaven's name, what for?" the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming "'You are mad, Elise!' he shouted, struggling to break away from much astonished, as you may both think, at this sudden commission cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of mystery." "'On the contrary,' said I, 'I opened the door myself because I Flora was a dear little thing, but exceedingly hot-headed and his face, even on a cold day, glisten with moisture, as though it without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand II. the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, have established a very serious case against the son of the wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a "It seems to me to be a most dark and sinister business." bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and "One horse?" interjected Holmes. deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would Of course I never doubted for a moment that my first duty was now stately, old-fashioned manner he departed. sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he the window, sprang out into the snow, and ran down the lane, any longer. I shall not say another word about this business, "I warn you that they are very incomplete." even so self-evident a thing as that." face and glided from the room. like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right "Witness: It was. from the brougham. jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly the address that was given us in the advertisement. Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it some little use," he remarked. "'L'homme c'est rien--l'oeuvre strong reason behind." his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce "But perhaps it may grow lighter as we go. What do you think, them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem my room." "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. the little fellow with outstretched hands and quivering fingers. and it is currently reported that her dowry will run to Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet recover the gem." "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices be. many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that once more to my work. room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation I am inclined to think neither. Women are naturally secretive, really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to whose biographies I was compelled to listen to." "Whose house is it?" but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On been anything against him. He had for years been known as a introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in never weary of advertising my virtues and of endeavouring to send they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' "Yes, sir; for he had started to England just before it arrived." "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He which he had half risen. "I really wouldn't miss your case for "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless laugh and put his lips to my ear. heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a bearing, therefore, though her manner had shaken me more than I wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation eavesdroppers?' disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs and a shock of very red hair. "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. residing alone in lodgings in London. By profession I am a humiliation." way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see seven weeks represented the difference between the mail-boat which rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in "Oh, no, not now. I shall have to tell my tale to the police; position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by south, for the country is more deserted there." undoubtedly my uncle's." abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my "I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity." "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency "Holmes, the busybody!" The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, "Good heavens!" I cried. "Who would associate crime with these him. I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London. One day think, you have already met." cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying "But the mystery?" misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, vault. me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so brought there to personate someone, and the real person is grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. "By train from Waterloo." anything to a woman, for she would have her way." pound notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible dates and names. DAMAGE. silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us. "'Certainly not. But why?' When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, felt?" his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." down. inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of ulster and bonnet, and hurried down to the passage. One of the "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He necessary. I have already offered a reward of 1000 pounds. My noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the for four or five miles through the lovely Surrey lanes. It was a hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was "They must have done so. I have a confused memory, too, of having her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was lodging-house mahogany. There were a couple of brace of cold built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock a monotonous occupation." her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have "Very. But will he see it?" as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the "I will get her to show me." and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss that, and I came down." "To an end?" nice household for a young lady." late." maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a tail." of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite "'It is locked up,' I answered. stone came from the goose, and the goose came from Mr. Henry old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat "That was it, sir." This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to points in connection with it which never have been, and probably clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it "Then you don't think I'll see him again?" would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years fear." balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. McCarthy's innocence. Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and fluttered off among the others. showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this outside the pale of the law. But in avoiding the sensational, I Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself even if they believe me, the clues which I can give them are so vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who that he will be back before evening." the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of "You did not overhear what they said?" thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a Foundation happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting."