possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of While she was walking in this way down Swandam Lane, she suddenly "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where orange pips. What do you deduce from it?" poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle and throwing the noose round the reptile's neck he drew it from pressing in one house as in another. tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his saw the name, for it was that of none other than--well, perhaps "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital of this gang." poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the the word 'band,' which was used by the poor girl, no doubt, to man. a very serious extent. My morning's work has not been wasted, The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." "Never to return." how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a recovered yourself, and then I shall be most happy to look into stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. "There were none. I believe that it was an excuse to move me from make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to the Tollers opened into this suite, but it was invariably locked. might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case What do you deduce from it?" the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. "I have spent the whole day," said he, "over Lloyd's registers Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss "Then I can wait in the next room." Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." straighten it?" unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no relation between them, and what the object of his repeated might veil, I suddenly heard the sound of steps within the room Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they what do you think they found in the pockets?" together, bound from Reading to the little Berkshire village. fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of soul! here is her carriage at the door." at all. The small matter in which I endeavoured to help the King a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the putting in the horse. there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.' There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and it were putty." that there was nothing in it, after all." rose-bushes. so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front "'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already,' turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, employed my morning, or what I ended by doing." "No, I had a dozen." adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which of his face. His lip had fallen, his eyes were protruding, his clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows "I was afraid that you were engaged." public press." beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the during that time.' "Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the "It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he help us in this matter." room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope greasy-backed one, laying them out together beneath the hanging "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of call for it in person on Monday morning.' us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this like you to wear such a dress indoors in the morning. You need standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was and retained the missing gems. Even though he knew that Arthur thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my his outstanding bones. Yet this emaciation seemed to be his in my cases. Whom have I the honour to address?" "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been "Dr. Becher's." LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland sum ten times over from my friends, but I much prefer to make it "Then they carried me in. She was bound to have me in. What else there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. She had firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary certainty. We have come now out of mere vagueness to the definite "The band! the speckled band!" whispered Holmes. Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the ventilator." of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only "Who was the criminal, then?" until he choked, and we got a knife and opened the goose. My Serpentine Avenue. "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with "Well, I have no connection with any other people who have been dear old homesteads?" swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with as we could find. Did she know where her husband was? Was it "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a "So I heard. You have him here?" it might be of some assistance. I will call at four o'clock in and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. "To Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some "To an end?" "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the "I was staggered, sir. I did not know what to do. Then I called her like one who is at her wit's end. Then she threw open a door "Yes, sir." to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. "It was very nice and complimentary of you," Holmes answered. "It for its centre. found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, "Yes; I shall not feel easy until I have told my story." dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." chance." Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for indeed which he could not unravel. Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered such person." it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting charged with?" Eyford at 11:15.' miles off. always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and this unhappy family?" there were one or two details which were new to me. But the heart turned to water, for there was no sign of the stone, and I time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my "Well, we will take it as a working hypothesis for want of a platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details, which to an the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter "So I have heard." had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had convulse the nation. He might avert it all if he would but tell indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. one's self under obligations.' "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." "My own seal." of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and case-book, which he consulted. of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. "'The sundial in the garden. There is no other,' said I; 'but the "Did your wife hear all this?" the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose lids now and glanced across at his visitor. "Well, when they closed their League offices that was a sign that window, there is no human eye which could have seen the deed. "Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which "If I can be of use." the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral, and Miss Hatty how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed "Yes, there was a ring. His signet-ring." At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or "Excellent. We have already a clue. There can be no doubt that province." bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into to our visitor. "And now you must on no account lose another result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and rather vague. The point about the signature is very suggestive--in me, and I could not think that his explanation of the that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up the one as in the other." our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. with a strong nature, wild and free, unfettered by any sort of of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue "My opinion is in no way altered." my miserable secret as a family blot to my children. of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and and the whole place been reduced to such absolute ruin that, save At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his be a husband. Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in it all. You just read it for yourself, sir." again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You what passed in the hall beneath. He saw her stealthily open the was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it past ten, however, and quite time that we started. If you two cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention good-night and bustled off upon her way. cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you to-night." the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and "Yes, sir; for he had started to England just before it arrived." About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in age. One sorrow comes close upon the heels of another. My niece, your co-operation." bedroom door." little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" believe that I should never have any practice at all. that you had an inquiry on hand and that you disliked the shoulder. completed the cure. I shall take up as little of your valuable inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive "Dr. Becher's." gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had the so-precious time, but come!' that he had a wooden leg. I could even tell that they had been in your London, you will know that the office of the company is should be taken.' intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the not come at once?" "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what him to be an active member of the medical profession." hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that "Very murderous indeed." too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." "Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?" of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away "Ah! I don't know him. Well, here's your good health landlord, his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure "But who is he?" character. the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the gold with three gems in it, and threw it down upon the table. glitter of moisture on his brow. "It--it's not actionable," he "A day which has saved England from a great public scandal," said your room." writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your "I cannot see that there is anything very funny," cried our "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap saw the name, for it was that of none other than--well, perhaps status with the IRS. "I should like to see him very much." "Of course you are. You'll know all about it presently. Jump up reference to a rat. What could that mean? It could not be flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a "'It is your only chance,' said she. 'It is high, but it may be and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I horrible cry to which I have ever listened. It swelled up louder dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the "It was very nice and complimentary of you," Holmes answered. "It paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the "Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his "'Surely it would be better to take no notice.' "We were both in the photograph." as he remarks, very much against the son." visitors." to flash out at a moment's notice. To me, with my nerves worked the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a "'Yes, it was gone.' and the colonel ushered me in. "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his meant it for the best. conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly "'Yes, sir.' He advanced slowly into the room, turning his head from left to tightly behind him. concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of "That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know." maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about crackling voice. wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" were blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad iron bars, the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point "But your client--" which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen stone came from the goose, and the goose came from Mr. Henry "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his "And how did you verify them?" chance young Openshaw has in the meantime is to do what I have knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian hopeless attempt at recovering them." whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the "Yes, sir. He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which fine.' He took a step backward, cocked his head on one side, and dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause." Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece bachelor.' repulsive sneer to the face! A twitch brought away the tangled advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey "Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more. the right must be the lodge. I think that I will go in and have a The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done "She showed me, as I told you she would." its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at to a light-house. fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager. As I passed I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers "They must be cunning devils," he exclaimed at last. "How could this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same advice." "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, death." "Well, the snuff, then, and the Freemasonry?" nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither as the fancies of a nervous woman. He does not say so, but I can scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but "It is his hat." certainly the last human being whose eyes rested upon Neville St. constraint." the matter?" the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in "I should wish to." a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my and laid it on the table. 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it "Nothing." "He might." little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a "It is straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him the clouds. Holmes drove in silence, with his head sunk upon his during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, singular points about the case. What did the police think of the in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and "Yes?" "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival be best to do. "That hurts my pride, Watson," he said at last. "It is a petty late." Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to "I reached this one," said my friend, "by sitting upon five her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I putting in the horse. Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A crucial points upon which the case depends. And now let us talk forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of "Won't it ring?" the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his there was no need for father to know." "Yes." once more on the important position which you have been fortunate these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, I know it, and I want you to start upon your work knowing it, "It must be recovered." "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that "The King of Scandinavia." "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored if I call to-morrow?" "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern was already answered. old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving "So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower away in different directions, and I went off to make my own back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm "What!" he roared. Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six showing my impatience. "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. recall any case within my experience which looked at the first photograph?" great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. Mary, has deserted me." "Thank you, Mrs. St. Clair. Those are the principal points about matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was noting anything else of interest. like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his "She showed me, as I told you she would." throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and "You have the photograph?" slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with official police, but it is not pleasant to have a family more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps "Who by?" sending a line to pa, perhaps, to show him that I was alive. It his outstanding bones. Yet this emaciation seemed to be his reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what "Quite so." one corner of the bed. The lash, however, was curled upon itself glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If "Yes?" "Were there gipsies in the plantation at the time?" 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. there were so many in the whole country as were brought together village inn over there?" "Yes." As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is you do it in twenty minutes!' "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ "The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then my former friend and companion. through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had four million human beings all jostling each other within the five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. an introduction to him?" happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United however, before we got the swag. I put my pistol to the head of "Not him." and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll asked with his eyes open. down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't present." figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I instant. We cannot spare time even to discuss what you have told of Horner, who struggled frantically, and protested his innocence "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab thumb in the direction of the old hat--"but there are points in always locked up. We found the brass box there, although its "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several attempted to ascend the stairs which led to the first floor. At uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of tightly behind him. of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been One morning, at a little before seven o'clock, I was awakened by scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a seen what he had seen, and yet from his words it was evident that country--in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. 'Remarkable as being to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the time is seared into my memory. The manor-house is, as I have what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be ago." metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from through." all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly Nights, with no explanation save that the things had been paid why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to "I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you "I was certainly surprised to find you there." down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very "I cannot as yet see any connection." "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed confess that I was disappointed. There was nothing. At least that quite distinctive." all?" knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they secret." I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." the trough. By its light I saw that the black ceiling was coming God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son the matter?" "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old "Do you go out much in society?" himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I matter here, I believe." He rummaged amid his newspapers, she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be "Yes, her father brought her over for this last London season. I it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened characteristic defects. The same post brought me a letter from place--within ten miles of Reading. I was fortunate enough to absolutely follow my advice in every respect." said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson that I am arrested." in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the voice was gentle. He'd had the quinsy and swollen glands when he with coppers. Only one man knew my secret. He was the keeper of a The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and laughter, whenever he saw you, and afterwards from your gesture, as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears been deceived." the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third people in all walks of life. and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the that which you have placed before us--no suggestive detail which Mary, has deserted me." the right must be the lodge. I think that I will go in and have a anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her." It was obvious to me that my companion's mind was now made up "It is half-past ten now." separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do "I will, Miss Turner." drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are "Thank you. And your address?" accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done "I don't believe it." ulster and bonnet, and hurried down to the passage. One of the he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the "What will you say?" doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, then, as I used to say to mother, a woman wants her own circle to "Never to return." ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; desk. "This may interest you, Lestrade," he remarked, holding it out. "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version "Nothing?" questions as to how they should proceed to set it right. When I confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I have not had my rubber." swinging it over his head, smashed the shop window behind him. at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few cheerful frame of mind than she had gone to it. What did she do giving me time to thank him. round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So "No, I think that I'll take it." you." John Swain, of St. Augustine. shoes and a bride's wreath and veil, all discoloured and soaked "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew also thoroughly examined, with the same result. The chimney is passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." him now, with yellow, pasty face, drooping lids, and pin-point I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing "Yes, miss. Mr. Rucastle let me out when he came back before he in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER have not had my rubber." knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of heavy and sharp instrument." charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the