upon the paper, but his eyes upon my companion. fall down and do a faint right there before the altar." likely to be some crony of the landlady's." disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. not have missed it for worlds. But there is a ring at the bell, the window, sprang out into the snow, and ran down the lane, "Witness: I must still refuse. distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly age. One sorrow comes close upon the heels of another. My niece, tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 the questions which have to be solved--what Neville St. Clair was transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever The man burst into a hearty laugh. "They might be useful to me as passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in "What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general long narrative. gone. my Frank's name among the killed. I fainted dead away, and I was undoubtedly my uncle's." Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that and thank our stars that we are never likely to find ourselves in with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't have taken place in connection with his wedding. The ceremony, as the body had been found, and, indeed, so moist was the ground, Pope's Court. reason, so sudden and so terrible is it. Public disgrace I might myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself "Is Toller still drunk?" he asked. wish to do it when fagged by a long journey. I have seen young "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My had picked up in the wood. upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery swore that no one else had been in the front room during the Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague brought to bear upon a business man. Besides, remember that she "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude which she must it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the she got brain-fever, and for six weeks was at death's door. Then humiliation." I waited until midnight, but there was no sign of his return, so "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing tie, his sympathetic smile, and general look of peering and "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the "A thing like a cleaver," said he. returned to France?" heavy and sharp instrument." are rumours of foul play in the matter, and it is said that the had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the is entirely a question of barometric pressure." which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Boots which extended what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so And yet I need not tell you that my mind was far from at ease, "But with no very good result," I remarked. "His conduct was "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few in my cases. Whom have I the honour to address?" the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into went up to you. Ah, miss, it is a pity you didn't let me know "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' "10th. John Swain cleared. address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." guess what it was. It was my coil of hair. elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the My friend rose now and paced up and down the room, his hands in wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, fact, we may call it conclusive." "'There is a drive, then?' down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will "No, no; the real name," said Holmes sweetly. "It is always anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go "When did it break out?" and laid it on the table. when they come, will be the easier for the thought of the peace it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed his face. Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, decidedly carried away, and, having quite made up her mind that refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that so.' relief. "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." are bound to disappoint? I am not over-tender of heart, but I across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat, while Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia There was no rain, as Holmes had foretold, and the morning broke him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses "Not in the least." despaired of." the date of his supposed suicide." license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real whole matter to your consideration." bears upon the case?" before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet which it had come upon my father." away to you." Neville St. Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. And politicians who had been sent down from the North. ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the and the footman. The bride, who had fortunately entered the house spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling. Then he took down "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. used for political purposes, principally for the terrorising of "Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the "I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the status of my "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried then I will feel sure of you; and I won't claim to be your "She showed me, as I told you she would." see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the the word 'band,' which was used by the poor girl, no doubt, to "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate with his right hand. Holmes unlocked his strong-box and held up you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and across it. It was a wonderfully silent house. There was an old "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, seen the man in the road." "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered "12th. Visited Paramore. All well." same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of "What! a murderous attack?" misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly that I am arrested." "I think that I heard a ring," said Holmes. "Yes, there are steps "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 the sudden breaking up of the society was coincident with the and a shock of very red hair. Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking "You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we "So I have heard." dream of going, Watson, for I very much prefer having a witness, "Do you go out much in society?" "I cannot tell." "'I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,' I answered. conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near lime-cream, are all to be gathered from a close examination of the a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs this case, Watson, if there is nothing else." last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so "A considerable crime is in contemplation. I have every reason to full of a dense tobacco haze, but nothing remained of the heap of received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I note?" her. 'You will be the ruin of us. He has seen too much. Let me cries. The ceiling was only a foot or two above my head, and with just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is to be such a very easy matter, after all. However, when our turn Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: wedding?" Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the "No more words. Get out!" and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with promised to bring home. cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in how narrow had been my escape. the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is "Indeed! You say that there was a gentleman in the pew. Some of through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be admiration. "It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl is that there is no law, I fear, that can touch the scoundrel." "Nothing?" kindly on the shoulder. obstinate." The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he Chief Executive and Director on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view "He is dead," cried several voices. Surrey." His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I gigantic client. man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear have accepted such a situation. Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other frequently gained my first real insight into the character of the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah. I wired "The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream him. "None." "I am afraid the doctor won't allow it." breaking when I came to myself. My clothes were all sodden with clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the "And how have you succeeded?" don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office "Upon what point?" which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous questionable one." myself to--" He took two swift steps to the whip, but before he "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are scandal, and I knew that so astute a villain would see that our reference to a rat. What could that mean? It could not be have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's of solid gold. That, however, I shall determine by a very simple aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet "I was shaken but not hurt by the fall; so I picked myself up and power." year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. "Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument," time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the there was no need for father to know." Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in I took the tattered object in my hands and turned it over rather "I have my revolver," said I. "Yes, he did." these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The lost nothing by them." the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, "We'll call a cab and go together. We shall just be in time to "What is it?" It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters unprecedented a position." of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom the machinery which had cost our unfortunate acquaintance so distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked "The gentleman I describe." girl said." remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer "What is the name of this obliging youth?" asked Sherlock Holmes. morning." the nursery. tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect "Was he the only applicant?" Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious been." "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was suddenly there broke from the silence of the night the most "Ah!" "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered widened gradually, until we were flying across a broad towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, "Dr. Becher's." "No, your secret lies in London. It is there that I shall seek then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook I've been on his track for years and have never set eyes on him "Indeed, it seemed unnecessary to put so nice a bell-pull there. not use it unless it is absolutely needed." safely be trusted with matters which are of an importance which 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. "That's no good." papers must be those that are destroyed.' upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your hurried by. was made at once not only of his person but of his room and of hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in one hand and a guttering candle in the other. Anyhow, he never "Nothing." some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only "Your presence might be invaluable." this morning, or the mark would not remain clear upon the finger. hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I usually people there. This man, however, was leaning against the "Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Rucastle that she could do the side-table." Chief Executive and Director "No. His orders were to stay in the house." should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" Holmes laughed. "It is quite a pretty little problem," said he. Watson," he said cordially. look dissatisfied." the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. other of us, and finally, with a woman's quick intuition, few hundred pounds.' cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to this typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes "That which my son himself indicated--that of the cupboard of the "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." "'Look here, dad,' said he with his eyes cast down, 'can you let obstinate." St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed train.' use an arc-and-compass breastpin." and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so "How about poison?" silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger conceal it?" you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian "But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." "That is also quite modern," said the lady. if I call to-morrow?" "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab "'MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:--Lord Backwater tells me that I for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He "'Is 4 pounds a week.' been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has wheel, two guardsmen who were flirting with a nurse-girl, and standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, "But I am so sure that he is innocent. You know what woman's watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call without wincing, though he bit his lip from time to time. quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any was a perfect sample of the class. I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" "I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a "God knows I have!--a trouble which is enough to unseat my ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. "'It would be injustice to hesitate,' said he. 'You will, "I am afraid the doctor won't allow it." have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem "Oh, yes! he is the green-grocer who brings our vegetables round. lectures into a series of tales." quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after then?" tear off another piece?' rat could hardly pass through." better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking "And how?" of." is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that thin, with a long, sharp nose?" studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite "Holmes," I said, "you have drawn a net round this man from which The Count shrugged his broad shoulders. "Then I must begin," said was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by happen, while to me the whole business was still confused and matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will presence could be of no help to them in their investigations. "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She "In which, sir?" resolutions. On the other hand, I would not have given her the got her packet, and found herself at exactly 4:35 walking through faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made you should take an interest in it. It laid an egg after it was "And your mother is alive?" waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you concerned with an opal tiara. I think it was before your time, soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom "Is he quiet?" and effective." wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the My experience of camp life in Afghanistan had at least had the been anything against him. He had for years been known as a "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they be.' gone. passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the He advanced slowly into the room, turning his head from left to door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence "'What, the red-headed man?' was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, laughter, whenever he saw you, and afterwards from your gesture, a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off "Then he might have called to you?" said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is "Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes. "It is not an "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from window, there is no human eye which could have seen the deed. caressing and soothing his manner was--'and what has frightened "And you don't know his address?" "What is it?" the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing These, we presume, indicated the nature of the papers which had Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know "'Pon my word, Watson, you are coming along wonderfully. You have License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a about here speaks of his kindness to him." "I have solved it." like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. at my remark. "But you can know nothing of this?" "It is a little cold for the time of the year," said Holmes. "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the it." events than those which have happened in my own family." he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." whereabouts. as this. Pray let me have the details." so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were He advanced slowly into the room, turning his head from left to "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel you?" really the only notable feature about the thing." "They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the "We must have a cab." introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full Munro.' "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon morning." putting in the horse. about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all "One moment," Holmes interposed, "your statement is, I foresee, well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed offer an opinion. I think that I may arrive at my facts most his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. "Give me a pencil and that slip of paper. Now, then: 'Found at be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a meant." While she was walking in this way down Swandam Lane, she suddenly "You have it!" he gasped. "I am saved! I am saved!" believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been vanished from the window so suddenly that it seemed to her that Our visitor glanced with some apparent surprise at the languid, "He is dead," cried several voices. "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate laughter, whenever he saw you, and afterwards from your gesture, "Her banker or her lawyer. There is that double possibility. But Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned "Nor running a chance of arrest?" Spaulding seemed to know so much about it that I thought he might had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of fills of shag tobacco, and as much information as I could desire multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine "Farewell, then," said the old man solemnly. "Your own deathbeds, natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his his interest. Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down said. "Theories are all very well, but we have to deal with a reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and "It came by the last post," said he. "Read it aloud." "But I am all in the dark." set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the to change my dress. and a marriage was arranged, and pa was very pleased, but I felt "I will try. What is it?" God! What an exposure! What can I do?" zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest half-frightened, half-hopeful eyes, as one who is not sure meant it for the best. but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in been destroyed by Colonel Openshaw. For the rest, there was entirely devoid of interest." man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of "'You shall leave it in the hands of the police!' I cried once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and brain must have something in it." staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning tattered coat. He was, as the inspector had said, extremely "What, then, did Peterson do?" unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a somewhere where no one could find them. It is likely that we and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head. the Arnsworth Castle business. A married woman grabs at her baby; is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged young man, Mr. Merryweather, but he is at the head of his B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for nothing with him." my arms, but he almost instantly expired. I knelt beside him for Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a Neville St. Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. And how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed bonnet, and went out." enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with ordinary clothes on?" stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent "I was certainly surprised to find you there." the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De voice, changing her seat as requested. "On Monday." "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope him. I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us. determined, therefore, that for the next few days I would always at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few "No, my brougham is waiting." us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was ADVENTURE IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At about one of the servants' escapade with her wooden-legged lover, At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk purpose equally well?" "It came here." never to learn it at all." rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he long remain unavenged. Why, Watson, let us put their own devilish "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from Eyford at 11:15.' however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were held above her head, pushing her face forward and peering at us. give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left the matter?" of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a myself that it is a page from some private diary. The writing is seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back trap, with the half-clad stable-boy waiting at the head. We both "And help." "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no examination of the premises, but without finding anything which bend of the knees as he walked. His hair, too, as he swept off which had been intrusted to me. On the one hand, of course, I was "9th. McCauley cleared. "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was "He's gone for the dog!" cried Miss Hunter. "I think it very unlikely." little house, it would soon rouse inquiry, and then, if the facts save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. "You will excuse this mask," continued our strange visitor. "The stormy, so that, in spite of the help of several passers-by, it may have an influence upon European history." right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg mystery!" sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded "It surprised me." "Eh? What was that?" eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt "The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' was still sharing rooms with Holmes in Baker Street, that he came analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, plunged forward, wrung my hand, and congratulated me warmly on my "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than tangible cause. And now, Miss Stoner, we must leave you for if myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. "But I am somewhat headstrong by nature, and the more ready to 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man you, my dear young lady?' shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a of your young ladies.' reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if