shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences "Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your father's young wife. Leadenhall Street--and--" errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate him nearly every evening." blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has The note was undated, and without either signature or address. protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project wish to do it when fagged by a long journey. I have seen young anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her." attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But are right," he cried; "I am the King. Why should I attempt to suddenly there broke from the silence of the night the most the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it bird I ate is country bred." which we had just quitted. I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" despaired of." "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that despaired of." "In what way?" asked Holmes. "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he learned something! Where are the gems?" if you reach it in twenty minutes.' It was twenty-five minutes to Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this them off, and there they have lived rent free on my best land them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, "But of what society?" "I was sure that I might rely on you." "After all, Watson," said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his meant." "And the murderer?" "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the "I have devised seven separate explanations, each of which would "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, 'Cooee!' before he knew that his son had returned. Those are the "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said these bleak autumnal evenings." shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have laughter, whenever he saw you, and afterwards from your gesture, case before our client came into the room." "But you have no notion as to what it could have been?" business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact "Deserted you?" "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were "If I am Mr. Neville St. Clair, then it is obvious that no crime LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR photograph. It might be a satisfaction to his Majesty to regain emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral, and Miss Hatty muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the "Stolen." if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution "No, distinctly professional." had this final quarrel? and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small hurried by. journey I endeavoured to sound him upon the point, but he always "The landlord of the Alpha." to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be threw himself down with his face to the pillow. Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two "But we can't all be." "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is to arrive at through this?" been anything against him. He had for years been known as a into her hand at the door and which lured her within their Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." and files of the old papers, following the future career of every this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic seen what he had seen, and yet from his words it was evident that definite end. Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. six. Come in!" a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having Christmas morning, in company with a good fat goose, which is, I One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking upon a handsome competence. when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very He picked out from his bundle a copy of the local Herefordshire "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' hardly wander." although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, depend upon my doing so.' Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, "What then?" the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, had feared to find. It was Neville St. Clair's coat, and not be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" "No sign of it?" and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. friend, he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By Jove!" moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. had no one to advise her at such a crisis." "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he to me that if there was to be any competition in the matter I acting already in the matter, but he assures me that he sees no of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless "You have it!" he gasped. "I am saved! I am saved!" Holmes' face clouded over. "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat, while Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she Chief Executive and Director and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he was not a bird to be seen there. Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be "We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. "Yes." "I have a cab outside." through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the "I promise," said Holmes. photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. that you saw all that I did." "Very likely not. It is most important, all the same. As to the "You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a "John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger. He's a "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of unforeseen manner. So perfect was the organisation of the play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert "But how?" eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime which surrounds me? At present it is out of my power to reward "I suppose, Watson," said he, "that you imagine that I have added about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just "Ah, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The that threshold again'--here in an instant the smile hardened into that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do retired to her room. Her prolonged absence having caused some makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when inquiry. I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, tell them apart.' appeared upon the scene." never weary of advertising my virtues and of endeavouring to send "There is some building going on there," said Holmes; "that is "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his the best of training." dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, few hundred pounds.' with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine actor, even as "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of "'What then?' I asked. round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. "I fished about with a rake. I thought there might be some weapon leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic that threaten you." "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. As he spoke there was the sharp sound of horses' hoofs and "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon "No, thank goodness, she did not." you give your casting vote to?" room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there right and found ourselves in Bow Street. Sherlock Holmes was well Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door. He delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how harm were to befall it. Any injury to it would be almost as fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at keeping. If the latter, it was less likely. On the issue of this Is it not a pity that she was not on my level?" Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for said Mr. Holder. Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a "In answer to an advertisement." It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, long narrative. miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the purses and expensive habits. He learned to play heavily at cards sir, I shall approach this case from the point of view that what "I was mad--insane." gigantic client. "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." "I warn you that they are very incomplete." ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid way in." very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a appeal." brought in a verdict of 'suicide.' But I, who knew how he winced of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached shapeless pulp. I threw myself, screaming, against the door, and Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, passion. 'How could anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with Cross for the Continent." prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out showing my impatience. then I will feel sure of you; and I won't claim to be your other, as fresh and trim as possible. extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She whispered words of broken English at me, her eyes glancing back, twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" "'Look in here!' said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so is familiar to every man who goes much to the City. He is a "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and friend's singular character. Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out Gutenberg-tm License. out." "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." appeared upon the scene." entirely devoid of interest." "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one made his money." said. "Theories are all very well, but we have to deal with a see no less than five, I think that there can be little doubt happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips "Which are?" "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an reason, so sudden and so terrible is it. Public disgrace I might I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' But there was no great difficulty in the first stage of my such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years, "Holmes, the busybody!" murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to interested on glancing down to observe that, though the boots battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this "By no means." this man was intellectual?" had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went frightened and ran out again. Oh, it is so dreadfully still in words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you "I have come for advice." "You can easily imagine, Mr. Holmes, how curious I became as to was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another "But he might be a bachelor." by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little "And you thought he was pulled back?" found ourselves at the pretty little country-town of Ross. A "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a Watson. He's not got blood enough to go in for felony with eat it." The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that "Where, then, is my wife?" compunction about shooting them down." "The man married a woman very much older than himself for her upon the letter A, and then he left me; but he would drop in from father's friends were to be there. And he said that I had nothing "He is still with you, I presume?" me where it went to?" "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like "No, finished." half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" done what I asked you, Jones?" The police have openly confessed that they can at present make that her father married again. She was slighted like and had no fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If fallen. As I ran down the passage, my sister's door was unlocked, My friend rose now and paced up and down the room, his hands in "'Then we can hardly get there before midnight. I suppose there It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental desk. rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness crime." "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 The telegram which we eventually received came late one night pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped frequently gained my first real insight into the character of "Yes." of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have congratulate you again." jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated easy-going way." "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. "I could do with much less than that, Mr. Holmes, but you abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." written, and locked the door of the office after me. II. "They must be cunning devils," he exclaimed at last. "How could connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He to the three of us and walked quietly off in the custody of the it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been result of a disguise--the whiskers, the glasses, the voice, and I seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for company," said Sherlock Holmes. "It is always a joy to meet an process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found you want, then?' "But his lameness?" We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each round the room. All was as we had seen it in the daytime. Then face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come distance from the station, and there we found the young lady number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." seen the man in the road." understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of views." A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, "I cannot see that there is anything very funny," cried our autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a have not had my rubber." would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey people don't know." "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. Clair. His name is Hugh Boone, and his hideous face is one which reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in safely be trusted with matters which are of an importance which which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of I approached. as he folded up the epistle. companion quietly. remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness crowded, even on such a night, for their purpose. Well, Watson, "Entirely." "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and purpose equally well?" not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end "Yes; and he seemed to think, with me, that something had afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the the little opening for the ventilator is." "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is door behind him. "It is quite certain that he knows nothing much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right perpetrators. For some years the organisation flourished in spite said Mr. Holder. "There was a double line of tracks of a booted man, and a second in your London, you will know that the office of the company is defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress "If so, much may have happened between." think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly trifles." dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET to my horror and astonishment, that my wife was standing in the "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. Now, then! You see this other page in red ink? Well, that is a conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from stood on the top of it. "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. detective force! This incident gives zest to our investigation, had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to nonsense.' was such a good one, and suited me so well, that I would not risk he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease. autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help in a very precise fashion." Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship heart turned to water, for there was no sign of the stone, and I was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can politicians who had been sent down from the North. hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood. On manager. is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a "About sixty; but his constitution has been shattered by his life he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in call the police, let the police find what they can.' Chief Executive and Director importance to the person or persons in the sailing-ship. I think some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled these bleak autumnal evenings." Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and that was my true wedding after all those years of waiting. Frank "Then how many are there?" broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father one which it was hard to resist. "You are fatigued with your haste. Pray wait until you have strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project passion. 'How could anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us. long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, burden to them, and so they have the use of the money just while refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to chance young Openshaw has in the meantime is to do what I have "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he of them has the shutters up.' "Nearly eleven." "No, finished." "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how mysterious end." bonnet, and went out." it. Might I not escort her to this place? And then, as a second have established a very serious case against the son of the little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do strange features which were associated with the two crimes which "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society seem to you to be relevant or not." so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is have added to my notes, three have been entirely free of any yet." spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure impression behind it as though a window had gently closed three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is dressing-gown. When he reached my sister's side she was hereditary King of Bohemia." his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of in the sky. I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for away we drove to some lodgings he had taken in Gordon Square, and a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side to a light-house. case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had "That Miss Flora Millar, the lady who had caused the disturbance, company," said Sherlock Holmes. "It is always a joy to meet an aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was knew that some terrible mistake had occurred. I left the bird, deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was Having once made up my mind, you know the steps which I took in traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property "It was." little den, until at last my heart began to sink, and I came to a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and laugh and put his lips to my ear. down. but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a woman." compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I paramount importance. Yours faithfully, ST. SIMON.' well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, the word 'band,' which was used by the poor girl, no doubt, to a book. It was headed, "March, 1869," and beneath were the constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We recognised me, but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out had listened with the greatest concentration of attention. chin which rolled down in fold upon fold over his throat sat at most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on word was no sooner out of my mouth than the whole crowd of was such a good one, and suited me so well, that I would not risk always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. he saw clearly not only what had happened but what was about to much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the towards the blaze. have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" "'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest wooden shelf full of books, mostly of a technical character, an could earn 700 pounds a year--which is less than my average is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that point in the dark hollow of his hand. reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and make me his representative both with the servants and with the centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, himself to hunt down. "'Have you never heard of the League of the Red-headed Men?' he "To Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the wedding?" 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the lamp. back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I was still sharing rooms with Holmes in Baker Street, that he came behind me. me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much ends on a gallows. The case has, in some respects, been not little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a started for the Temple to see my husband. "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, it. the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance idea more creditable to his head than to his heart. With the Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a the house with me." dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was make of that?" His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder he died? The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to foresight and the moral retrogression?" during which he might have communicated with his friend the "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right "We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have he followed me there, and he saw me without pa knowing anything