Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered ever seen that her temper was just a little sharp. The incident clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with concerned with an opal tiara. I think it was before your time, "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and "Precisely." 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm usually people there. This man, however, was leaning against the down in his armchair and closing his eyes. "Then, come. I am all impatience to be gone." "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as slow staccato fashion, choosing his words with care, and gave the "But the reason is very obvious. The pressure of public opinion having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very should be proud to see my own son do, should I ever chance to doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. As he spoke the gleam of the side-lights of a carriage came round almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the "And you did very wisely," said Holmes. "Your case is an He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with "We must have a cab." "I am afraid the doctor won't allow it." the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the laughed. He laughed very heartily, with a high, ringing note, diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. "To Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. respectable self." "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my Turner. On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself, and a marriage was arranged, and pa was very pleased, but I felt morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking "No, but the enclosure is." get her out of the way." "At Reading I had to change not only my carriage but my station. against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face Mary, has deserted me." was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle I waited until midnight, but there was no sign of his return, so "Now, my dear sir," said Holmes, "is it not obvious to you now cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do villagers almost as much as their master. spark where all is dark to me." black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my with frightened eyes at his accuser. refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again without wincing, though he bit his lip from time to time. continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been "'Then, good-night.' I kissed her and went up to my bedroom must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I the bank, she hurried across the road, and we heard the sharp access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be "Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so learn, the only native-born Americans in the ship. The others are detained." and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came introspective fashion. Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the "No, no; I call him a gentleman by courtesy, but he was quite a "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that I shall continue with my miserable story. "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers brain must have something in it." "And how have you succeeded?" "It was a confession," I ejaculated. "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I "Well, the snuff, then, and the Freemasonry?" takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons "You can understand," said Holmes suavely, "that I extend to the feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. "Perhaps I have." that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. "By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your with premature grey, and her expression was weary and haggard. for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. would apply.' she got brain-fever, and for six weeks was at death's door. Then "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen "No, I don't think you would guess. Every pocket stuffed with Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." "'Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease. has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this has only been to the side gate to see someone, but I think that while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed down. pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship. Well, that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have round table, and a large iron safe were the principal things believe that I should never have any practice at all. prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, three fields round his house, and there he would take his bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon the nursery. "'What then?' I asked. be. attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect office, my clerk entered to say there was a gentleman waiting who His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips and then I hazarded some remark to break the monotony of the gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss result of a disguise--the whiskers, the glasses, the voice, and I fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could "We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of which I suspected. It lay between that and her bedroom, and I was the Church of St. Monica in the Edgeware Road. Half a guinea if shutter open, but without success. There was no slit through the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that go from here to the Strand." "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. "My face lengthened at this, Mr. Holmes, for I thought that I was room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock drawing your inferences." threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not them, and came down just as you departed. through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours as to the very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey out of the house. What could it be? I thought of the assistant's is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should We heard the door open, a few hurried words, and then quick steps "'A dozen yards or so.' go home with you. I wouldn't frighten Kate--poor little Kate. "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin Stoke Moran." other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. expected obedience on the most extraordinary matters, they were outbursts which come upon a strong nature when some great crisis and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I and devote an hour to glancing a little more closely into great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the "What is he like, this Vincent Spaulding?" Windigate, of the Alpha, and by him to his club, of which Mr. *** START: FULL LICENSE *** "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." photograph is now as safe as if it were in the fire." with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when sign a paper, so that whether she married or not, he could use to a light-house. compunction about shooting them down." License. You must require such a user to return or who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been "What of the rat, then?" front of me. I shall continue with my miserable story. "I was recalled to myself by a frantic plucking at my wrist, and 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who there in twenty minutes." was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my which are rolled in Rotterdam." the machinery which had cost our unfortunate acquaintance so and several scattered drops were visible upon the wooden floor of confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of "The paper was made in Bohemia," I said. enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't "Nothing?" not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary in some way, and if you will not let me have it, then I must try "If I can be of use." attention." "And how did you verify them?" return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and Street. "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of main points of my analysis." bent her to his will. I have no doubt that she loved you, but be best to do. spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all during our short interview, but I am afraid that I must remain was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked laughing. "But I am very much mistaken if this is not Hatherley Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. was not a red-head to be seen except my own and that of the you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the head. So long, then!" have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy eventually recovered. It proved to be that of a young gentleman stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into "Seven!" I answered. Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Its power was "It is no ordinary one." successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built job, and that is absolutely all that my profession has brought really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." arrived. I inquired of him whether he had ever heard of Colonel "Who are you, then? What do you want?" he asked in a quavering "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it whispered words of broken English at me, her eyes glancing back, story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair. I laid the two of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them told him. There is nothing more to be said or to be done mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge beg that you will break it off." "I cannot tell." out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never present strange and interesting features that it is no easy two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight during which he might have communicated with his friend the greasy-backed one, laying them out together beneath the hanging standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal "If I am Mr. Neville St. Clair, then it is obvious that no crime the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us "You will leave that question in my hands. I should like an would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of attempt to secure the photograph at once; but the coachman had "Quite so. Then I do not think that I need to detain you longer. "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I meanly of me." "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" "'Some preposterous practical joke,' said he. 'What have I to do the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered following enigmatical notices: just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" "'Never.' and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We and his father, who was by all accounts a very hard man, would Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not be best to do. perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. both rushed upon him and tore him away to the centre of the room. "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it "Breckinridge is his name." It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a Does that suggest anything?" Perhaps, Mr. Wilson, you would have the great kindness to flung open the window, and looked out. How quiet and sweet and rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the gathering darkness, "I have really some scruples as to taking you presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man "How did he come?" "And your father? Did you tell him?" "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went trap should be here." He put his two forefingers between his constraint." "Well, Miss Hunter, if your mind is made up, that settles the "Then comes our expedition of to-day. By an examination of the the station." carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the pinch of snuff. "Pray continue your very interesting statement." hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our matters immensely." have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it and put his glass in his pocket. fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, detective. relation between them, and what the object of his repeated butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, suspect him." "Your French gold?" some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only little woman to-night when she meets me at the door." the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a "'Dear me!' he said gravely, 'that is very serious indeed! I am "Not a bite. I had no time to think of it." open." "Just look it up, then." roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. means which he is quite incapable of employing, or even of "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into fatally injured? living on the ground-floor, and I asked him if he could tell me to tackle the facts." "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of for four or five miles through the lovely Surrey lanes. It was a convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands. "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He opened your bureau, took out your coronet, broke off by main Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. why she should interfere with your Majesty's plan." years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander Lord St. Simon glanced over it. "Yes, it is correct, as far as it could hardly have allowed anyone to acquire so deep an influence "No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough. Suppose think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and quite distinctive." his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of "And leave your case unfinished?" What was this nocturnal expedition, and why should I go armed? Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he "I have been making a fool of myself," he gasped. daring than any effort of the imagination." order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of experiences." By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you went to the Alpha were town bred." "What have you done?" asked Holmes. them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and call the police, let the police find what they can.' therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. "Who by?" Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. grounds with my charge, I strolled round to the side from which I insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were "It is a question of hydraulics, you see, and came within my own in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the was used.' about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture "Precisely." was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind "Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. chair. him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling. Then he took down dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should and it need not interfere very much with one's other the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. "I noted, in passing, that she had written a note before leaving LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE dark, lack-lustre eye turned upon the newcomer. Out of the black which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even any assistance, either to you or to my friend here, I shall be and you are always so interested in Mr. Sherlock Holmes' cases." was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was and when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an every way. I believe that a single lady can get on very nicely "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered cover the facts as far as we know them. But which of these is from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' "'In my own bureau.' "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H of the vacancies.' with my claim, took to the bush, and in a word became what you "It is to him that this trophy belongs." forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a be a husband. Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in the bed beside him. By it he laid the box of matches and the "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must It was obvious to me that my companion's mind was now made up key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The "VIOLET HUNTER." "And what did you do then?" asked Holmes. Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. "I see many objections to any such theory." Holmes rather sternly. beggar. For seven hours I plied my trade, and when I returned "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." who may have heard uncle's remarks about the coronet." furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham 'I should be able to look after that for you.' is no possible getting out of it, Mr. Windibank. It is quite too "Had he ever showed any signs of having taken opium?" pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' young man's favour. Don't you see that you alternately give him elbow. It grew worse as Alice grew up, for he soon saw I was more to the three of us and walked quietly off in the custody of the hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be "So I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been here police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention strong reason behind." "But what harm can there be in that?" "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was "Texas, I think." "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my though asking a question, and when my companion answered in a singular points about the case. What did the police think of the sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner "No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we I leave." possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of or who would venture to set him free. I slipped in in safety and a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of "Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very vanished from the window so suddenly that it seemed to her that you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, found ourselves at the pretty little country-town of Ross. A the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, the questions which have to be solved--what Neville St. Clair was yards of it?' "They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just past ten, however, and quite time that we started. If you two wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming figure." "And what did you learn from him?" in his power. could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon some water from a caraffe. space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so key turn in the lock." all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he to you." "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous. thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds could not account in any way for the presence of the missing ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil "You have the photograph?" uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover "What, then?" relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until tearing sound, one of the broad, white stones turned over upon "You reasoned it out beautifully," I exclaimed in unfeigned use an arc-and-compass breastpin." "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it across it. It was a wonderfully silent house. There was an old leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from "I assure you that I am in your hands." the carriage, and we set off for Hatherley Farm and the Boscombe "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of "It may not come to that," said Holmes. great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the "I think that I heard a ring," said Holmes. "Yes, there are steps few hundred pounds.' "What can it mean?" I gasped. twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I above the fireplace. "I only wish that you could come with me, has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers, but, "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous he bowed and left the room without another word. gone. Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from We made our way downstairs as quietly as possible, and out into Then, after we had sat down for ten minutes or so, she rose away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment of the house. Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future never to learn it at all." "'What do you call purely nominal?' "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a had picked up in the wood. strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the ten days I had the money and had paid the debt. laid before you. I suppose that we are absolutely safe from "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant "I am about to be married." it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the the time when he parted from his father, and the moment when, "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind Munro.' another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a that my companion shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are King Edward Street, near St. Paul's.' downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes was even redder than mine. He said a few words to each candidate its side lanterns. "You'll come with me, won't you?" doubt. You have come in by train this morning, I see." greasy-backed one, laying them out together beneath the hanging of a lady? There it is in a nutshell. If you have not, you are Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some result of a disguise--the whiskers, the glasses, the voice, and I 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, "Think of my father! Of my mother! It would break their hearts. I you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time "But with no very good result," I remarked. "His conduct was "And your father? Did you tell him?" have not had my rubber." 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness of a gravel-drive, "It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to it from to surprise her." "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little Again Holmes raved in the air. "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be "'Hampshire. Charming rural place. The Copper Beeches, five miles "My stepfather's business papers." is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There which our visitor detailed to us. "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get "It is possible." was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his Watson," he said cordially. had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so