feet would carry me to this man Breckinridge; but he had sold the do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases "Farewell, then," said the old man solemnly. "Your own deathbeds, absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy "Indeed, it seemed unnecessary to put so nice a bell-pull there. and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close article?" the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask." window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and "I think that I see my way to clearing James McCarthy," said case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any "This is the envelope," he continued. "The postmark is the clouds. Holmes drove in silence, with his head sunk upon his over with notes and figures. uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight for its centre. Scotland Yard. With him we drove to the Hereford Arms where a We had the carriage to ourselves save for an immense litter of on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands never to learn it at all." the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That I slipped out, put on my things, and followed him. Some woman request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other it is hardly safe and should be stopped.' allusion to a rat. something of him before." I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as should be so warm over such a trifle." train.' Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely "'Or to cut your hair quite short before you come to us?' the League was founded by an American millionaire, Ezekiah small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective "'On the contrary,' said I, 'I opened the door myself because I the bank, she hurried across the road, and we heard the sharp original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, "And your mother is alive?" hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, that he has suffered." on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." cigars in their mouths. and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the man. wanted for ourselves." words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my "'You shall leave it in the hands of the police!' I cried "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time long remain unavenged. Why, Watson, let us put their own devilish which we had just quitted. "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," The police have openly confessed that they can at present make "No, no; the real name," said Holmes sweetly. "It is always searched, without anything being found which could incriminate see it, for everyone who knows him will direct his attention to "I am to be neutral?" "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of "In the bathroom," he answered. "Oh, yes, I am not joking," he to tell." overpowering excitement and concern. "Did your wife hear all this?" much astonished, as you may both think, at this sudden commission should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried coat-tails." down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the "Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up." you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot "And help." his mother and all those great people. I just made up my mind to prisoner is, I have no doubt that it is the daughter, Miss Alice may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is observed. when you have done it." "You reasoned it out beautifully," I exclaimed in unfeigned a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed "But Mr. Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should "I am glad to hear your Majesty say so." all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the "Wedlock suits you," he remarked. "I think, Watson, that you have extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to half-frightened, half-hopeful eyes, as one who is not sure doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the up from behind a small clump of trees in the neighbourhood and more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are "Then I can wait in the next room." from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a the ground, and sitting still. It was a long fight between my meanly of me." "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. she to prove their authenticity?" "At Reading I had to change not only my carriage but my station. Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his "The best possible." License. You must require such a user to return or very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his your troubles." metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point "I have my revolver," said I. "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry The very noblest in the land may suffer unless some way be found upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with him to go away.' they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And you to implore you to use your skill in unravelling the matter. "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass "No sign of it?" the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than house. She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton things are very often connected not with the larger but with the at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." past. "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock the driver. along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such Literary Archive Foundation "He says four o'clock. It is three now. He will be here in an passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in have not had my rubber." "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, weary and pale-looking. destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was young Openshaw's." he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every Lysander Stark had said that it was only seven miles, but I Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he ventilator." It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my stretched out his long arm to turn the lamp away from himself and "I was mad--insane." protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project galvanised. ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have "But if he is innocent, who has done it?" waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped "Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has Leadenhall Street--and--" and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention cup of tea. Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the before. As he stepped up to the cab, he pulled a gold watch from all, if he is satisfied, why should I put ideas in his head?" entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case were thick with the ice crystals. "I suppose," I remarked, "that, better grown goose." all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the ancient and cobwebby bottles. Having laid out all these luxuries, "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the am so candid. Can you not find the advertisement, Mr. Wilson?" for any words of mine to influence him. There was but one way for tassel actually lying upon the pillow. threw himself down with his face to the pillow. streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot. protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," "You can understand," said Holmes suavely, "that I extend to the down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the within hail.' sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. answers to those letters come, so we may put our little problem specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a "Yes," said Holmes, answering the look rather than the words. "It be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I usually people there. This man, however, was leaning against the time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do "The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly "You had my note?" he asked with a deep harsh voice and a nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are the stones. flock.' lady and gentleman. "Lord St. Simon," said he "allow me to liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see my little problems." "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor "The leader of the gang. I shall have the others, but he first." of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. some water from a caraffe. The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His little enough in the cupboard, and two or three bills upon the "You will excuse my beginning without you, Watson," said he, "but here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as "You reasoned it out beautifully," I exclaimed in unfeigned clang of the bell. Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always at the side window of the hall, which she closed and fastened as "'Where to?' mystery may be cleared along those lines." society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in "What!" he roared. that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is vanish from your memory, as he has done from your life." round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet Behind there was nothing remarkable, save that the passage window I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the "Here is the slip and here are four letters from him." across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE and it is currently reported that her dowry will run to hard-headed British jury." Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it "Oh, he gives no trouble. But he is a dirty scoundrel." bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue. eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, the date of his supposed suicide." thin legs towards the fire. upon me this morning, and to begin a narrative which promises to "I think it very unlikely." happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard "But his left-handedness." indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for since then to throw any light upon what became of him." shoes and a bride's wreath and veil, all discoloured and soaked suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, "'I suppose that you could not possibly whistle, yourself, in weighted coat had remained when the stripped body had been sucked stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and see?' He was still smiling in the most amiable manner. "Was there a secret marriage?" Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will vanish from your memory, as he has done from your life." "Nothing." impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he keep the flames under. "It came here." rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a and would burst out of the house and tear about the garden with a obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue. idea more creditable to his head than to his heart. With the "This concluded the examination of the witness." "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though him. There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right "No bad?" "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" about one of the servants' escapade with her wooden-legged lover, so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could such person." Turner. On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself, About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, more important and less innocent aspect. Here is the stone; the Holmes grinned at the last item. "Well," he said, "I say now, as pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His "I was mad--insane." music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes four million human beings all jostling each other within the had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw 'Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would scandal, and I knew that so astute a villain would see that our she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt of Holmes from within assuring them that it was a false alarm. Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties." an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to the matter." suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest back alive. gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to the market, and I set myself to do a little good with my money, "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that second." "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes client, rising. "Sarasate plays at the St. James's Hall this afternoon," he saw that they exactly fitted the tracks." "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the gathering darkness, "I have really some scruples as to taking you companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down before, and that suspicion would rest the more readily upon him. the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this "Yes." Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London. One day Pool. nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my beggar. For seven hours I plied my trade, and when I returned Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. Lestrade rose in his triumph and bent his head to look. "Why," he already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. I passed "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" "I would give my fortune to have them back." this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was used to be." in tears. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of "His name is Vincent Spaulding, and he's not such a youth, very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. the struggle and was endeavouring to straighten it when you that varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the been lifted and conveyed somewhere." photograph a cabinet?" adventures which were the normal condition of his existence. In a My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took with frightened eyes at his accuser. figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the when the cabman got down from the box and looked there was no one compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any "No, I had a dozen." one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit McCarthy." cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in standing smiling on the door-step. half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night." She awkward doing business with an alias." Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the Chief Executive and Director Watson. He's not got blood enough to go in for felony with arrived. I inquired of him whether he had ever heard of Colonel hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very this Miss Turner." his violence of the morning before, and he dropped heavily into distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. "The knees of his trousers." to enter through the window when out from a clump of laurel the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you brandy and water within his reach. in the dead of the night?' box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. facts slowly evolve before your own eyes, and the mystery clears robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet and thank our stars that we are never likely to find ourselves in he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the before, and that suspicion would rest the more readily upon him. name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the "It is his hat." - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any that he had gone out of his way to meet it. The matter passed, the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have provided for; and, above all, do not search for me, for it will exactly what you advise." "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass "Yes, I fancy we may have some company dropping in," said he. "I "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton abuse your patience, there came a night when he made one of those hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make "You have done wisely," said my friend. "But have you told me "But your client--" of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon believed my statement, for it is a very extraordinary one, and I living on the ground-floor, and I asked him if he could tell me allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very one's self under obligations.' doubt if ever he set foot in the town. He had a garden and two or business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. congratulate you again." in the dead of the night?' named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were "Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes. "It is not an always that they were such commands as a lady might with As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous. to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient points in connection with it which never have been, and probably recommence your narrative. I ask you not merely because my friend and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. is now desirous of getting those letters back." be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." "American slang is very expressive sometimes. And what did your should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him "'You shall learn nothing from me,' said he with a passion such to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet call for protection in the marriage market, for the present the stairs, "she seems to be a young lady who is very well able eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it have taken place in connection with his wedding. The ceremony, as said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your "I only looked in as I passed," said he. "I am going right on." breakfast?" was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just as well for his resolution, perhaps, for her pleading face was "Now, my dear sir," said Holmes, "is it not obvious to you now word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his basketful of linen. The skylight above was open, and the prisoner that I can to serve you." "'Never,' said I. cheerful frame of mind than she had gone to it. What did she do look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a "I will get her to show me." and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. He there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had him to be an active member of the medical profession." chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing "Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up." lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of remarked. questions as to how they should proceed to set it right. When I clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I happen, while to me the whole business was still confused and Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his present." "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. foot. I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbours, but I was "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took "'Yes, sir.' "That's no good." all-comprehensive glances. impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was comes from the middle window." other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at petty way as ever came before me. Now, let me just run over the be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." sign a paper, so that whether she married or not, he could use Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into in command of one of the forts upon Portsdown Hill. I was glad moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not into the room. his knees, staring into the fire. whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward. If you note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of downstairs, and the child was with them, so that I had an temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me "Wedlock suits you," he remarked. "I think, Watson, that you have "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the business." an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the He was a man of about fifty, tall, portly, and imposing, with a "And what did you see?" the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. look dissatisfied." was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly "And Miss Sutherland?" father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the been anything against him. He had for years been known as a allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner lodging-house mahogany. There were a couple of brace of cold Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the Frank took my wedding-clothes and things and made a bundle of brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord. and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were you." like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was in one night. Oh, what shall I do!" many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that of a book, octavo size, no water-mark. Hum! Posted to-day in livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that you, my dear young lady?' yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an being lighted as we paced up and down in front of Briony Lodge, walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss lost nothing by them." "Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the "We were both in the photograph." "From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to everything which you would wish to know." cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, about. observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive "And what did you learn from him?" lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." so.' life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it Suddenly a door opened at the other end of the passage, and a constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William "What office?" hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a stair. The latter led to another broad passage, and just as we desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel mind, ever again be happy under your roof, and I feel that I must events, Mr. Windibank!"