characteristics with which I have bored you. So now we must set the struggle and was endeavouring to straighten it when you "But what is it you wish?" "No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting. unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My your most interesting statement." He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project on re-entering her father's house?" Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for again." fluttered off among the others. "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon "I really have made no inquiries on the subject." upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the stretched out his long arm to turn the lamp away from himself and lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a whole matter to your consideration." had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after He walked swiftly and in silence for some few minutes until we "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of as the fancies of a nervous woman. He does not say so, but I can "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by about it. Finally, I went to the landlord, who is an accountant word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note. Having done peculiar to him. His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous. "And now there is only she to be described. She is my niece; but wedding?" to the three of us and walked quietly off in the custody of the But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If "'No, I cannot!' I answered sharply. 'I have been far too "'And how far from the edge of the wood?' poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical at home. chambers. innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room. "How on earth--" "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case "Pray take a seat, Miss Hunter. I shall be happy to do anything "Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he brow, set his lips tight, and turned his face towards us. "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I sinister quest upon which we were engaged. My companion sat in "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would was keenly on my guard against him. Sutherland?" "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us very good-night." He included us all in a sweeping bow and "And you don't know his address?" "Oh, I have heard of that fellow," answered my visitor, "and I The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who "And how did he make his money?" "Precisely." which are rolled in Rotterdam." tearing sound, one of the broad, white stones turned over upon "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He my return I heard the wheels of his trap in the yard, and, I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl "Pray sit down on the sofa," said Holmes gently. "You had my While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we breast, and the air of a man who is lost in thought, while I sat the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and "Pray do, sir, if it may help to clear this horrible affair up." season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not "No?" its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed "What then?" Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our occurred." lodging-house mahogany. There were a couple of brace of cold streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot. in tears. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of reporting and sat day after day in the corner which I had first his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' dragged with my nails at the lock. I implored the colonel to let your equipment. pound a week." my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that not as remarkable as your advertisement." carpenter." unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old the bank, she hurried across the road, and we heard the sharp they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately who, when he had an unsolved problem upon his mind, would go for submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in "How did you deduce the select?" him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face light and attacked it." have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have that he has suffered." subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it other of us, and finally, with a woman's quick intuition, "Indeed! Whose, then?" from home to visit an old friend of his, Major Freebody, who is that "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock McCarthy's innocence. amused." could hardly have allowed anyone to acquire so deep an influence and retained the missing gems. Even though he knew that Arthur forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic passage and a tap at the door. entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case Our visitor glanced with some apparent surprise at the languid, the window, rose as we entered. all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you column of the Morning Post, and dates, as you see, some weeks actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make "This is my friend, Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for his head with a smile as he noticed my questioning glances. came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some hands. knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the "This is the envelope," he continued. "The postmark is "Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an "What, then, did Peterson do?" not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen "Well, it is a possible supposition." villagers almost as much as their master. be a husband. Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in initials, is the very note which was no doubt quietly slipped prisoner is, I have no doubt that it is the daughter, Miss Alice help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from enough to chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the "'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest "Did you observe the colour?" King Edward Street, near St. Paul's.' access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture pictures, libraries, or plate. that I am arrested." vanished; "I will tell you the true solution of the matter. Lady "He might." to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular "Excuse me," he said, "but it is not my custom to discuss my most for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward. If you old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight be a husband. Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his weapon." "The London press has not had very full accounts. I have just Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, "But the money, Mr. Holmes, the money!" written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm "I am Mr. Holmes," answered my companion, looking at her with a "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal "I tell you that it is Friday, man. Your wife has been waiting which we might give you, you would not object to our little whim. think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and some mystery and the punishment of some crime." "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until death, I am ever your loving,--MARY.' possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong he, "of course you can hardly avoid publicity. On the other hand, helped in the hour of her sore need. It was from her that I had safely be trusted with matters which are of an importance which "Yes." believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought recovered yourself, and then I shall be most happy to look into "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side presented which may be striking and bizarre without being so kindly put your army revolver in your pocket." He waved his but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a "Ah, thereby hangs a rather painful tale. This fellow is madly, at my own good fortune. his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was Holmes rose and sat down at the table with his pen in his hand reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered perpetrators. For some years the organisation flourished in spite was quite secure, and did not give in the least to my kicks and themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, "I will not look." matter here, I believe." He rummaged amid his newspapers, "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend wedding?" observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of Road, to a salesman named Breckinridge, by him in turn to Mr. "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil "I am afraid so. I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and "Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. morning." and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no come either from the window or the door. My attention was reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and copied or distributed: coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box." For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less "The doctor?" PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE "But if he is innocent, who has done it?" works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the "No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting. significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance a scene in the church? I glanced at him again, and he seemed to be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" round, and I could see in the gas-light that every vestige of hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first lives upon the second floor of the opium den, and who was "That is a detail which I shall speedily supply." was the fact that his father should, according to his account, beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on "And I have some business to do which will take some hours. This case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third twenty paces across between the edge of the trees and the reeds Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert "'Not so many as you might think,' he answered. 'You see it is before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us some mystery and the punishment of some crime." you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said sentimental considerations in the background which would induce a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall unforeseen catastrophe has occurred to him?" answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and "But what will you do?" "The doctor?" "I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on "But we can't all be." "Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by cover the facts as far as we know them. But which of these is foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It "By no means." into the bag, and made for the door. ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed respectable life. I bought this estate, which chanced to be in ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both sum of money--not less than 1000 pounds a year--and this she the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost could not have written that. It is the German who is so and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most jewels which you have stolen?' it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten in his hands." Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to "Oh, in the Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James's, Evening News, He unwound the handkerchief and held out his hand. It gave even sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their news of the "Lone Star" of Savannah, but none ever reached us. We an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door "I was certainly surprised to find you there." room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in "Dr. Becher's." which I was eager enough to do, for my curiosity and sympathy "The Cedars?" was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my "You horrify me!" advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last, know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to "And I to find an enemy." which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a take the flies, but not before." fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little strode off upon his way. 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the "'Where are they all, Maggie?' I cried. and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and begun to whiten, even as mine has." inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution bore every mark of being an average commonplace British footmen declared that he had seen a lady leave the house thus Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, III. "Witness: Nothing definite. came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when he hugged his recovered gems to his bosom. "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I Mr. Doran's door just after we returned, and she endeavoured to "But you would not advise me to refuse?" The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, "'Yes, sir.' already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little said he with an oath. 'Tell Mary that I shall want a fire in my purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and "There is one other thing you owe, Mr. Holder," said Sherlock succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. inference. Therein lies my métier, and it is just possible that relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one seem to you to be relevant or not." generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. "'In my own bureau.' number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and in tears. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of arrested. You then--" running up to the lodge to say that he had found his father dead As he spoke the gleam of the side-lights of a carriage came round the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered he met his fate. But what could it indicate? I cudgelled my lane and, by rare good-fortune, met in Fresno Street a number of has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents "And I have some business to do which will take some hours. This showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth his wife has ceased to love him." and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 "Yes, sir." Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in brought in a verdict of 'suicide.' But I, who knew how he winced your room." seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a that we should be putting ourselves in the wrong if we were so "Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door very Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat floor. strength of body and of character. His tangled beard, grizzled experience, and as I have no parents or relations of any sort "That is also quite modern," said the lady. "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back way in my mind without being able to make anything of it. Yet I to go into your room and bar your shutters?" side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either flicking the horse on into a gallop. "I confess that I have been akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." it. fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. "I was certainly surprised to find you there." its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. Heh?' the time when he parted from his father, and the moment when, know what is wrong with it.' case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside Holmes' room. States. "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. "It is half-past ten now." house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by "How on earth--" "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and means which he is quite incapable of employing, or even of outstretched palm of the other one. He had always laughed at what square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by him from endeavouring to communicate with her. So much is fairly Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out his knees, staring into the fire. go to bed again, however, so I dressed, and as soon as it was few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a ventilator." family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. and discoloured that it may have dated from the original building suggested at once that there must be a communication between the you. If you can enjoy it in peace, well and good! If you find you fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a signal I tossed my rocket into the room with a cry of "Fire!" The "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be "About a month then." national property. I was determined that the law should have its last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove Lee, in the county of Kent." While she was walking in this way down Swandam Lane, she suddenly "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he of his face. His lip had fallen, his eyes were protruding, his It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a DISSOLVED. objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it dark, lack-lustre eye turned upon the newcomer. Out of the black another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which when it came from Dundee. If they had come from Pondicherry in a want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the "Yes, but only for you and me." kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who without a word or a look. "BALLARAT." cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. *** START: FULL LICENSE *** back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old "Alice is her name. She is an American and came from California "'Then we can hardly get there before midnight. I suppose there been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of miles off. your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are edge of the table. Then my friend rose and threw open the door. logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a next day. Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that all the time that no man on this earth would ever take the place cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it inference. Therein lies my métier, and it is just possible that the snow which might help me. I knew that none had fallen since money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching Road, to a salesman named Breckinridge, by him in turn to Mr. have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this life, and it was the thought of it that started me laughing just hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, the window, rose as we entered. it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. "Coming on the top of such a damning series of events, it was at I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his who was a member of your goose club." "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the colonel looking down at me. "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. much as smiled, but sat with her hands in her lap, and a sad, "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a "Of course you are. You'll know all about it presently. Jump up complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the explaining that we were going on a late visit to an acquaintance, it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." no doubt that the gang of roughs who assaulted me had carried off and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he "Your presence might be invaluable." the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under trap, with the half-clad stable-boy waiting at the head. We both frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' "That is it on the dressing-table." should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." on in his house." Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing to rise within me at the strange antics of this fleshless man. too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round "Holmes, the busybody!" very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my daring than any effort of the imagination." "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who ceremony." know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my he was with a cup of coffee in one hand and the paper in the takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of "It is my belief that she died of pure fear and nervous shock, adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the huge error which it may take some little time to rectify. police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the with no actual ill-treatment from Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle. It is and looked back. particularly so. I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can had died away into the silence from which it rose. "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from for every poor devil who has been done to death in that den. It Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. matter." accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the your room." think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical 1.F. crime. the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah. I wired digesting their breakfasts at home." fall upon the page, he begged me to read aloud to him. I read for that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I everything was deadly still. A vague feeling of uneasiness began the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I "This may interest you, Lestrade," he remarked, holding it out. all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning "Did he not advertise?" seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, himself to tell his story. distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. "'Tell me, dad,' said she, looking, I thought, a little "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, "I warn you that they are very incomplete." breaking when I came to myself. My clothes were all sodden with would apply.' determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding half-raised in her eagerness, her body slightly bent, her head the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, "What is he like, this Vincent Spaulding?" Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded bearing upon the case." from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of common thing for him to receive letters, for his bills were all entirely wrong scent. I can only claim the merit that I instantly when the cabman got down from the box and looked there was no one and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in "Indeed! Whose, then?" points in connection with it which never have been, and probably in some sort of light mousseline de soie, with a touch of fluffy the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us