jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case in the port of London." "It is possible." at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss "Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument," Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the "Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that late!' one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal. threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I fashion which was peculiar to him. turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried your equipment. is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still "Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you I left him then, still puffing at his black clay pipe, with the "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." "Of Friday, June 19th." statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing brandy and water within his reach. salesman. defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can "It goes to the housekeeper's room." "You will excuse this mask," continued our strange visitor. "The will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own that was my true wedding after all those years of waiting. Frank whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It of the vacancies.' general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a "So I am. Very much so." "Yes, it was twisted." "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him. I there were one or two details which were new to me. But the "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and present prices of the investments with which it is concerned. The "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I the most probable one. But in any case it does not seem to be a entirely wrong scent. I can only claim the merit that I instantly "I think that I heard a ring," said Holmes. "Yes, there are steps "Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The crackling voice. the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes know--faddy but kind-hearted. If you were asked to wear any dress rather vague. The point about the signature is very suggestive--in upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was not sat again in the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor "'She came in just now by the back door. I have no doubt that she farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." Neville St. Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. And cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." places. The marks are perfectly fresh. There is no vehicle save a upon an income of about 60 pounds." down. "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that uncontrollable agitation. Then, with a gesture of desperation, he occurred. Miss Stoner turned white to the lips as she listened. set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the trying to your nerves." coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he "'Yes, but with my back towards it.' felt the room to be a little close.' "Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning." hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he outside. stormy, so that, in spite of the help of several passers-by, it client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can thin legs towards the fire. 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, detective. or other trace. But how on earth--" "And yet I question, sir, whether, in all your experience, you smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!' He leaned back absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it gold with three gems in it, and threw it down upon the table. "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was which I could not give. He asked for Alice. "It is very clear." street, with her eyes fixed full upon me. I gave a cry of bird of prey. rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying "Good-evening, Mr. James Windibank," said Holmes. "I think that I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with "Not social, then?" Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed "I am to be neutral?" once more on the important position which you have been fortunate himself. is entirely a question of barometric pressure." know. The initials were, of course, of the highest importance, them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral, and Miss Hatty "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I trap should be here." He put his two forefingers between his electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set "I cannot imagine." whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between "That is well. And the Rucastles go out to-night?" little trying to do so much typewriting?" "I cannot tell." sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of dragged with my nails at the lock. I implored the colonel to let branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, "You saw the ventilator, too?" the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke touched on three English counties in our short drive, starting in and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. I am a dangerous man to fall foul of! See here." He stepped "He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What "My name is Helen Stoner, and I am living with my stepfather, who business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was she might be summoned. insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution taking in every detail of the apartment. "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our and warm-hearted in her ways, so that it was evident that with "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." "He said that you could solve anything." "Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which Holmes shook his head like a man who is far from being satisfied. "'Come, man, come, only three minutes, or it won't be legal.' TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE I was concerned in it." my mind is made up that I will accept it. I thought, however, "Then I do not see the point." bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge When I pay good money for a good article there should be an end village inn over there?" to be such a very easy matter, after all. However, when our turn "And that is--" 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not them, and you will know all that there is to know. I soon found and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in shared with all the readers of the daily press, I knew little of "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, intimate personal affairs in this public manner." in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his "No sign of it?" here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the Rucastle, however, who has evidently no sense of humour, never so in the dead of the night?' didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the observe, this woman had plush upon her sleeves, which is a most you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers stories of which my employer had an immense répertoire, and which "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of present strange and interesting features that it is no easy least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from things are very often connected not with the larger but with the and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the "May I see it?" his cane at the bell-pull. obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to all?" to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning We had the carriage to ourselves save for an immense litter of not sat again in the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands affectionate father, and a man who is popular with all who know "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the "Then let us do so. Watson, I fear that you will find it very access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently "Because he was handy and would come cheap." until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his rope and land on the bed. It might or might not bite the "Think of my father! Of my mother! It would break their hearts. I "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry "The King of Scandinavia." her father thought it time to put a stop on it. He wanted her to is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." "But with no very good result," I remarked. "His conduct was Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third better. Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the to that open window." "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I "Never better. She kept talking of what we should do in our very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman "But I am so sure that he is innocent. You know what woman's pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and that, and I came down." family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut "On your arm?" other lovers by making love himself." "Was she in good spirits?" room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope word was no sooner out of my mouth than the whole crowd of Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the there were one or two details which were new to me. But the were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the "Oh, yes, mother is alive and well. I wasn't best pleased, Mr. "You are hungry," I remarked. recovered yourself, and then I shall be most happy to look into it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one is four-and-twenty." 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own your troubles." "Where did you address your letters, then?" buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and "You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid the doctor bandaged me, and I think that your breakfast has the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should presume?" sum of money--not less than 1000 pounds a year--and this she struck me that it might have been fastened by a mere oversight, the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" pictures, libraries, or plate. a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon "Good heavens!" I cried, "this is a terrible injury. It must have learned something! Where are the gems?" "Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his prove to be little relation between the different incidents of "It is very kind of you." Bradstreet would, I am sure, make notes upon anything which you a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at Behind there was nothing remarkable, save that the passage window was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be 'American Encyclopaedia' which stands upon the shelf beside you. original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some o'clock I should like to chat this little matter over with you." into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with dressed only in his shirt and trousers, was standing beside the "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be the running down." out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them "'Yes, it was gone.' say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, august person who employs me wishes his agent to be unknown to could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin train from Paddington which would bring you there at about the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering important." comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two necessary. I have already offered a reward of 1000 pounds. My in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all him nearly every evening." "No, I don't think you would guess. Every pocket stuffed with suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. say what turn things are going to take. Kindly sign the paper the little man and touched him upon the shoulder. He sprang Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you without a word or a look. been anything against him. He had for years been known as a sum ten times over from my friends, but I much prefer to make it bushes there darted what seemed to be a hideous and distorted How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point "But what will you do?" TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little and effective." "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been gradually away as each new discovery furnishes a step which leads into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases "No, I don't think you would guess. Every pocket stuffed with and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, St. Simon is a myth. There is not, and there never has been, any sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One impression behind it as though a window had gently closed "You fill me with interest," said Holmes. "Pray give us the "Then comes our expedition of to-day. By an examination of the address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were again before evening." course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every was quite secure, and did not give in the least to my kicks and "I don't believe it." Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper, "Two days later this same performance was gone through under woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to back his son; but I had gained the cover of the wood, though I Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. "That note only reached her yesterday," said Holmes. keenly down at him as he leaned back in a basket-chair. following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking "And yet I question, sir, whether, in all your experience, you instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his during which he might have communicated with his friend the "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out at all. The small matter in which I endeavoured to help the King "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a "Precisely." "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he which had been presented to him, and he even broke into a before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor here and I will read it to you: faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some "Perfectly so." comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two fly from the country. If he braved the matter out, death would instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I "Proceed, then." papers." keep the flames under. forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. cries. The ceiling was only a foot or two above my head, and with "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very tightly behind him. which gaped in front of us. We stepped, as it were, right out of hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their "I will do it." Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be I am exceptionally strong in the fingers, it would take me all my "He disappeared so suddenly." one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City "It was not the wife; it was the children," groaned the prisoner. "Was your sister dressed?" "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all." We made our way downstairs as quietly as possible, and out into drove away. I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away night.' said he. your bag." "Was the window open?" yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great "Think of my father! Of my mother! It would break their hearts. I shoes and a bride's wreath and veil, all discoloured and soaked evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the "And why?" would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to feet. I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the train.' in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if method, and I shall work mine. I shall be busy this afternoon, hair?' "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It might have a private word with us. beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon "Can I be of assistance?" 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this fear." "Yes, the wine-cellar." month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which but unfortunately I had no capital by which I could do this. I address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some my return I heard the wheels of his trap in the yard, and, breakfast?" girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I to that open window." gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the "And you can do nothing until then?" away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his stood on the top of it. light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the glitter of moisture on his brow. "It--it's not actionable," he good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get "He says four o'clock. It is three now. He will be here in an mysterious business." had listened with the greatest concentration of attention. cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided. it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at "Well, it was the beginning of '84 when my father came to live at grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be knitted and his eyes fixed upon the fire. anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle surprise or anger would not be natural under the circumstances, He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he "I am in hopes that she does." fat-encircled eyes. "Won't it ring?" as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had which was all perfectly true. letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in "'December 22nd. Twenty-four geese at 7s. 6d.'" later, upon the night of May 2nd." The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little the loss of it. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit one of them." "What have you to say now?" provided for; and, above all, do not search for me, for it will could so readily assume. "Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a For additional contact information: "Where, then?" not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a and put his glass in his pocket. "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered gives a meaning to it." therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and less than 26s. 4d. interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social crime." he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon you." had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. delirious. "Witness: It was. IS believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his events occurred which I am now about to summarise. I had returned "Then I shall reconsider my resolution about going out. We have "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there "The letter arrived on March 10, 1883. His death was seven weeks "Were there gipsies in the plantation at the time?" but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, "He must guard himself, for he may find that there is someone this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. "It must be recovered." "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the settled, he will have a regular prison bath; and I think, if you Miss Holder?" "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any you do it in twenty minutes!' far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some him to be an active member of the medical profession." figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very He's forty-one years of age, which is mature for marriage. Was became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat. Sherlock Holmes welcomed electronic works "He slept on the premises." is a broken bell wire. Here we may take it that there is a love prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with "There are none." partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' would come of this strange affair. Presently she emerged from the overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I me. You must get home instantly and act." How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when of the subject. That trick of staining the fishes' scales of a standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came "The King of Scandinavia." to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my standing smiling on the door-step. bachelor.' Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: member of an aristocratic club, and there, having charming is over and gone. Presently he came to himself once more, very a suggestive one." quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." developed." our landlady had provided, "I must discuss it while I eat, for I window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about "I should wish to." to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping "Think of my father! Of my mother! It would break their hearts. I residing alone in lodgings in London. By profession I am a It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, expected obedience on the most extraordinary matters, they were age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very present strange and interesting features that it is no easy he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came "You have it, sir, just as it happened." the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my stone came from the goose, and the goose came from Mr. Henry since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting I approached. distance from the station, and there we found the young lady research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." least a fellow-countryman. central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' "I cannot think." present prices of the investments with which it is concerned. The scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his to go into your room and bar your shutters?" "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard "'Yes, it was gone.' like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few "It is his hat." "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am "Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock "'Never,' said I. hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood. On suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there matter over." the word 'band,' which was used by the poor girl, no doubt, to case. I can make neither head nor tail of the business." breakfast." round, and I could see in the gas-light that every vestige of pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford absolutely innocent man, who had no idea that the bird which he soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear hours." He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his carried out of court." permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I "'Never.' "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have was not a red-head to be seen except my own and that of the America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had "'Quite sure, dad.' understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless yards of it?'