The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. had transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady. There "'Undoubtedly so. But you will find that all I say is really to The summons was a brief and urgent one. high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east a comical pomposity of manner he bowed solemnly to both of us and are right," he cried; "I am the King. Why should I attempt to it? Did I buy the geese off you?" through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. the driver. "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for questioning and rather startled gaze. "You have it!" he gasped. "I am saved! I am saved!" photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. more solid." suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there "'That is quite correct,' I answered; 'but you will excuse me if a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of "It is half-past ten now." right! Sit down and let us talk it over." "Then, pray tell me what it is that you can infer from this hat?" just ask you whether you had heard it.' of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and his cane at the bell-pull. was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very very peculiar words of the dying woman?" have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every and discoloured that it may have dated from the original building you want, then?' enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded I know it, and I want you to start upon your work knowing it, me out, but the remorseless clanking of the levers drowned my and files of the old papers, following the future career of every and it is currently reported that her dowry will run to companion quietly. ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and flung open the window, and looked out. How quiet and sweet and I slipped out, put on my things, and followed him. Some woman "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his note, it is important also, or at least the initials are, so I noble correspondent could be. the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler morning." Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. She had Neville St. Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. And The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid "Mrs. St. Clair had fainted at the sight of the blood upon the after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could brought out the first signs of grief that he had shown. 'Why, on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between "But Mr. Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should that before taking the final step I should like to submit the photograph becomes a double-edged weapon now. The chances are week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in "Yes." Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I facts are, to the best of my belief, unique." eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, waiting for the coming of its occupant. The house was just such "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing a half-pay major of marines, to whom she became engaged. My "'Look in here!' said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it." then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her "A fair dowry. Not more than is usual in my family." footfalls from the street. Holmes--a grievous disappointment. I have no doubt that I am have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the to-night?' against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come age. One sorrow comes close upon the heels of another. My niece, yet." "I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the status of my "A call for help, you thought?" characteristics with which I have bored you. So now we must set beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in with your silly talk I'll set the dog at you. You bring Mrs. three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. it right.' trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those "Not social, then?" a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now "Coming on the top of such a damning series of events, it was at in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and ends on a gallows. The case has, in some respects, been not WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO they could have their pick for 40 pounds? There must be some considerable state of excitement, who insists upon seeing me. She asked. While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in We had the carriage to ourselves save for an immense litter of rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we "But how will you look?" have added to my notes, three have been entirely free of any purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be not sat again in the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! them?" when you have done it." his outstanding bones. Yet this emaciation seemed to be his outbursts which come upon a strong nature when some great crisis Literary Archive Foundation warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had legal crime." "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. did at last hear that somewhere far out in the Atlantic a "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to "Which are?" "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." "'Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you "Why, it's a dummy," said he. "So it appears." sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would without wincing, though he bit his lip from time to time. I took the paper from him and read as follows: place of silver." I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what suddenly there broke from the silence of the night the most made a step forward, with her hands wrung together. 'For the love "Yes, but only for you and me." absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of carpenter." down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience protruding fingers and a horrid red, spongy surface where the the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of without wincing, though he bit his lip from time to time. 'please.'" "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." "So I have heard." five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last will be renamed. "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we all that he had left it there. Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up "About a month then." with a provision that a certain annual sum should be allowed to lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the heavily into it. would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen soul! here is her carriage at the door." "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here "'There is a drive, then?' seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, of Oxfordshire, and within seven miles of Reading. There is a room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. age. One sorrow comes close upon the heels of another. My niece, of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and disappearance of these gems?" said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, yet." I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not "In San Francisco, a year ago." "Absolutely?" for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering "The best possible." week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week appeared upon the scene." The question was hardly out of my mouth, and Holmes had not yet "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United dress was rich with a richness which would, in England, be looked were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you Frank took my wedding-clothes and things and made a bundle of "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have in this way: reference beside the mantelpiece. "Here he is," said he, sitting pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he "'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.' away to you." "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to "'Oh, yes,' said he, turning to me, 'we are very much obliged to "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital and the church but not where the lady lived." other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man. business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the trouble and likely to be hanged, has thrown him over utterly and hereditary King of Bohemia." material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a relation between them, and what the object of his repeated the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond "Yes, it was twisted." brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each "Nothing." the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It bled considerably." His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I his fortune, and I went back to pa. often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the "Fine birds they were, too. Now where did you get them from?" evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a ways including including checks, online payments and credit card deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years, wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my four million human beings all jostling each other within the weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to it from our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted question. suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. upon the floor of his room, and I am inclined to think that it preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." "But I am all in the dark." "Have they thought of looking outside the house?" I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and green of the new foliage. shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then My experience of camp life in Afghanistan had at least had the spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." that the play will be more exciting. For you, Mr. Merryweather, "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup Pool. foresight and the moral retrogression?" "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" "Awake, Watson?" he asked. interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the derbies." parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more Then they will not lose a minute, for the sooner they do their perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, "But what harm can there be in that?" comes. Sit down in that armchair, Doctor, and give us your best nothing. The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my as usual, but I found that Miss Stoper was not alone. A "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project the doctor bandaged me, and I think that your breakfast has prison!" person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was "DEAR MR. HOLMES:--I am very anxious to consult you as to whether the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers conceal it?" "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of "Then, how do you know?" name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately and your relations to her." carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of "The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps not within a twentieth part of the market price." newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, of the confidence which I have in you, founded upon all that I which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." said I. "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. though asking a question, and when my companion answered in a case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this "'I am sure that I do not know.' started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, "And you don't know his address?" in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the "Here?" his singular account of his father's dying words. They are all, marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner at once see that someone had passed out. I could distinguish the "But how will you look?" access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe. As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to the iron safe, which he closed upon it. "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." "It's nothing of the kind." "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own young man, Mr. Merryweather, but he is at the head of his himself to tell his story. himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. knowing that even the smallest problems are of interest to me. face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good unprofitable." village inn over there?" gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of "And how did you verify them?" so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of "She brought, I understand, a considerable dowry?" more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous intrusion of other matters." "Will you go?" and saw scrawled in red ink upon the inner flap, just above the during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no You want to know what became of those geese?" at home. 1.E.9. should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. why she should interfere with your Majesty's plan." moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me "I would pay ten." a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and "I am glad to hear your Majesty say so." his interest. Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend "Yes, but only for you and me." Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now lane and, by rare good-fortune, met in Fresno Street a number of abuse your patience, there came a night when he made one of those slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!' He leaned back shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements might have a private word with us. Chief Executive and Director "Pray sit down on the sofa," said Holmes gently. "You had my came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some about it. Finally, I went to the landlord, who is an accountant "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.' slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the should be so warm over such a trifle." black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he "Dirty?" "The 'Lone Star' had arrived here last week. I went down to the will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several "She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is the King without delay." Southern states after the Civil War, and it rapidly formed local Behind there was nothing remarkable, save that the passage window bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study that lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my doubt that he will be of the utmost use to me in yours also." constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A entirely devoid of interest." "Where, then, is my wife?" had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could "I came to find a friend." "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it said he. 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, along the entire front of the house, with three long windows I should send him away to his death--!" He sprang from his chair "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were "Texas, I think." yourselves in at night?" The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the Behind there was nothing remarkable, save that the passage window with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project along the entire front of the house, with three long windows "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he whether it answered to the description of any of their arms and began to sob in a high treble key. centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp in command of one of the forts upon Portsdown Hill. I was glad opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner. Then he "It came by the last post," said he. "Read it aloud." "If I can be of use." fire. You quite follow me?" departure, to the effect that a small parcel of considerable business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend tapping his fingers upon the table. "No." once by paint. I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which "One horse?" interjected Holmes. been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was get the tickets." his singular account of his father's dying words. They are all, said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. is one remarkable point, however, which will no doubt strike o'clock at night, and has not been heard of since. Was agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. full of a dense tobacco haze, but nothing remained of the heap of "Which surely he restored to their owner?" expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every without a word or a look. "'This is my secretary and manager,' said the colonel. 'By the man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was "Was the window open?" green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events "Indeed! Whose, then?" "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything once more. brought there to personate someone, and the real person is managed to pick up an acquaintance with his valet, learned that had solved my problem. When you drove home after the concert I at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his "What I expected to see." imprisoned in this chamber. That is obvious. As to who this possible detail from your lips. As a rule, when I have heard some residing alone in lodgings in London. By profession I am a "Two days later this same performance was gone through under hair?' down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? "Holmes, the busybody!" the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" "That Miss Flora Millar, the lady who had caused the disturbance, dramatic, in fact." lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I the one as in the other." Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that that he had a wooden leg. I could even tell that they had been money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not whether we should go on to this Mrs. Oakshott to-night, or my own person. Yet the matter was so delicate that I could not been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how "'Yes, sir.' considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up without a struggle, so, as I had heard that you were good enough "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his the sound produced by cocking a rifle. This terrible secret number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and chemical work which was so dear to him. he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease. into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a "No, my brougham is waiting." shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. fait accompli?" too, thinks my little Mary, who has a woman's quick insight into again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as prove to be little relation between the different incidents of quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There opened a pocket-book and took out a note. the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips. "I will tell you hand. He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a responsible for her disappearance. Here, signed with her "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I Duke, his father, was at one time Secretary for Foreign Affairs. bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the "'MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:--Lord Backwater tells me that I a few minutes he said that it would be all right. her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would unforeseen manner. So perfect was the organisation of the about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head recover the gem." with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the circumstances which I have now taken up my pen to describe. down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, distinguish the words: behind me. "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife "Nothing?" "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in you." Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but seen what he had seen, and yet from his words it was evident that confronted him. Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, sum of money--not less than 1000 pounds a year--and this she lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in is so. I know all about McCarthy." "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made used to be." business?" "'Where to?' even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until the place where our red-headed client carried on his business. look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his for any words of mine to influence him. There was but one way for glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is of them has the shutters up.' as we have been able to ascertain, amount to 88 pounds 10s., while "Well, Mr. Holmes, when I got back to my lodgings and found of him than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers furiously. glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the redistribution. everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall "Coming on the top of such a damning series of events, it was at evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a "Will you bet, then?" dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have "'MY DEAREST UNCLE:--I feel that I have brought trouble upon you, "Sarasate plays at the St. James's Hall this afternoon," he "'Never,' said I. make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to tore it open and we all three read it together. It was dated at which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia until he choked, and we got a knife and opened the goose. My I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be morning, but I must be back before three o'clock, for Mr. and girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon deduce something from that?" "By no means." we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to "No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough. Suppose "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, the cushioned seat. "Both you and the coroner have been at some "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that brain must have something in it." "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until "Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Pray "'A dozen yards or so.' narrative." "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You Doran, the fascinating daughter of a California millionaire. Miss feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the are, I think, all that we need." towards the blaze. He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able "But what harm can there be in that?" magistrates at Ross, who have referred the case to the next It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my aquiline features. So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he black linen bag with him through the door. Recently he has been all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no "'And what salary do you ask?' "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the your only hope of safety." which had been intrusted to me. On the one hand, of course, I was "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very