upon the ground to the left of me. It seemed to me to be make me his representative both with the servants and with the is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall "Witness: It was. endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, "Yes, from Horsham." centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel about it. Finally, I went to the landlord, who is an accountant "On your arm?" problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you it will be taken up by quite a number of people. You may then James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was "How can you tell that?" the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we "Your sister asked for it, I suppose?" with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' mystery." This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, "My stepfather's business papers." hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. still pressed together, his legs stretched out in front of him, passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the his interest. Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the next day. "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it employed my morning, or what I ended by doing." madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' "He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What "'I have already given you my word.' charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of "'One of the most precious public possessions of the empire,' but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of be.' can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. appeared upon the scene." wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a with coppers. Only one man knew my secret. He was the keeper of a "But it needs a great deal of supplementing before anyone could think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat. Sherlock Holmes welcomed the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. Henry Baker is a member." directors, with the result that you have seen." two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining you want, then?' to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were and sees whether she has anything which would suit them. he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her "This discovery, and the evident confusion which the cripple but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE "Which surely he restored to their owner?" "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the Holmes." whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No, know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do and wait." upon the shelf for the interim." servitude unless we can establish his innocence. It is possible music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I with a provision that a certain annual sum should be allowed to approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the appeared upon the scene." "You have a maid who has a sweetheart? I think that you remarked The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new kindly attend to my thumb, or rather to the place where my thumb do in these deserted rooms, and I once saw him carrying a large "Not social, then?" one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, answers to those letters come, so we may put our little problem Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not because she had spent so short a time in this country that she understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly I shall communicate with you." upon the shelf for the interim." most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her upon me this morning, and to begin a narrative which promises to came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. Christmas morning, in company with a good fat goose, which is, I would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his the bottom.' look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual casket in which, as it afterwards transpired, the Countess was McCarthy." feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect unkempt, staring out at me. pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His little doubt, caught the clink of our horse's feet." young Openshaw's." too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." into a doddering, loose-lipped senility. your hair. I assure you that it has not detracted in the tiniest The events in question occurred in the early days of my you in your example." misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" Clair. His name is Hugh Boone, and his hideous face is one which "Ah, but I was recommended to you." informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not "'You cannot say what it was?' INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in could not account in any way for the presence of the missing tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only tresses together, and I assure you that they were identical. Was sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his "'Tell me all about it,' said I. far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There few hundred pounds.' the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been "No, my brougham is waiting." at my own good fortune. matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is a suggestive one." which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He "Won't it ring?" could so readily assume. "Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I one corner of the bed. The lash, however, was curled upon itself that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have without a word or a look. old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the written, and locked the door of the office after me. back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are London should take a considerable interest in this cellar at the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?" of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do the Red-headed League." "Entirely." I took a step forward. In an instant his strange headgear began photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler the clouds. Holmes drove in silence, with his head sunk upon his "'Yes, it was gone.' could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the the struggle and was endeavouring to straighten it when you his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that "You are hungry," I remarked. A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," 1.E.9. instant. We cannot spare time even to discuss what you have told face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His "To ruin me." "Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning." evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the nothing so important as trifles. Let us now see the letter. Ha! you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have geese which you supplied to the Alpha." which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his sake, don't!" loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall contrast to it as the front of a picture does to the back. It was "Look there!" said he. music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. experiences." We had the carriage to ourselves save for an immense litter of know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and and wait." "'Yes, I promise.' "What steps will you take?" I asked. "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to could see the windows of this part of the house. There were four to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. call for protection in the marriage market, for the present photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the along the entire front of the house, with three long windows "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and then?" that I am arrested." which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last "Here we are!" said Holmes cheerily as we filed into the room. glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing "If so, much may have happened between." "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered august person who employs me wishes his agent to be unknown to "'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?' he asked. salesman. questioning gaze, and then, pressing my hand in a cold, dank gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, other means.' shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like families. Now for the facts. said he. "'Dear me!' he said gravely, 'that is very serious indeed! I am business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the with me, for we must have one to give to this gentleman in place "We must have a cab." a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which vanish from your memory, as he has done from your life." WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO about. Holmes grinned at the last item. "Well," he said, "I say now, as "On the contrary," said Holmes, "it is the brightest rift which I "Witness: It was. look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in experience, and as I have no parents or relations of any sort dates and names. the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small "And did you observe any change in her then?" trouble and likely to be hanged, has thrown him over utterly and the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The to enter through the window when out from a clump of laurel inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, some little use," he remarked. "'L'homme c'est rien--l'oeuvre It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on to where he stood hid behind the curtain. in the strongest terms. Evidence of a previous conviction for human experience this lonely woman had strayed into. The unusual been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of a little more before I quite committed myself. Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of row." "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the certainly repay what you advance, with whatever interest you "Won't it ring?" c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. "There's a cold-blooded scoundrel!" said Holmes, laughing, as he look out of my bedroom window about two o'clock in the morning. DAMAGE. it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man. once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I and were shown to be quite solid all round, and the flooring was uncontrollable agitation. Then, with a gesture of desperation, he "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a lost nothing by them." wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It adventures which were the normal condition of his existence. In a sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the of a broad and massive mould, was now pinched and fallen in, to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a "Oh, indeed!" said my friend, blowing blue rings into the air. "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, advertisement had upon your fortunes. You will first make a note, I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which as usual, but I found that Miss Stoper was not alone. A the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside "'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great "You reasoned it out beautifully," I exclaimed in unfeigned signal I tossed my rocket into the room with a cry of "Fire!" The murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no He's forty-one years of age, which is mature for marriage. Was lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed "But you have no notion as to what it could have been?" himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. The summons was a brief and urgent one. borne a stain. Private affliction also is the lot of every man; my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. "But how?" cooking and keeps the place clean--that's all I have in the "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you her hands with a despairing gesture, and vanished as suddenly and Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness. and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting "The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the "I could see that the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore he Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the cost them two and thirty pounds." my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in me. qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, and the same thickness. But then the impossibility of the thing companion. License. You must require such a user to return or rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more everything of importance, but you have hit upon the method, and charge is absurd to anyone who really knows him." "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet someone who had been in Australia." usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham cent. Two thousand five hundred pounds was the amount, but I can in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of "Boscombe Valley is a country district not very far from Ross, in Holmes' thin, eager face. whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm the iron safe, which he closed upon it. McCarthy." tossing aside the paper. "The question for us now to solve is the fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I journey and a shorter walk brought us to Fairbank, the modest state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless no doubt that the gang of roughs who assaulted me had carried off heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" pressing in one house as in another. "Thank you. I have not come to stay," said I. "There is a friend How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when We had the carriage to ourselves save for an immense litter of "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your I entered my consulting-room and found a gentleman seated by the it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away "Ah, yes, I shall keep the stone. Thank you. And, I say, which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A correct than the official force." Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: followed. "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel annoyance, but no jest. "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. "I beg pardon." "I am armed." the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies believed my statement, for it is a very extraordinary one, and I acted before this. You have no further evidence, I suppose, than It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch "Yes, sir!" said the station-master. matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations directors, with the result that you have seen." "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ sparkled upon his finger. and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to he died? ways including including checks, online payments and credit card or in danger--" say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! "MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES,--You really did it very well. You cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from vague figure huddled up in the darkness. I was concerned in it." Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! his singular account of his father's dying words. They are all, must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to my Frank's name among the killed. I fainted dead away, and I was lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself the time of my arrival, and I was informed by the maid that he "They have but one retreat," whispered Holmes. "That is back "And they were posted to-day at Gravesend. Well, Mrs. St. Clair, "You have it!" he gasped. "I am saved! I am saved!" Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to "You have it!" he gasped. "I am saved! I am saved!" DAMAGE. "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, "At Reading I had to change not only my carriage but my station. I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester, For additional contact information: out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they "This gentleman was not one of your wife's friends?" "Whose house is it?" the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is ways of our fellow-men." "Never." papers diligently of late, have you not?" much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet repulsive sneer to the face! A twitch brought away the tangled a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to spare." "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the smell of drink. Twice since I have been with them he has been "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before tail." male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the the iron safe, which he closed upon it. maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their "It is fortunate, for you will perhaps be able to post me up. I "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the Frank took my wedding-clothes and things and made a bundle of "And why?" he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease. "To the police?" "And what did you see?" better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings other means.' I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism "Good heavens!" I cried. "Who would associate crime with these that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey people in all walks of life. dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet. So there nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the "'December 22nd. Twenty-four geese at 7s. 6d.'" peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his It was not very long before my friend's prediction was fulfilled. hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that "And sit in the dark?" "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have his outstanding bones. Yet this emaciation seemed to be his "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" "And what else?" I asked, keenly interested, as I always was, by "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I were weary and stiff, for I feared to change my position; yet my corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply call you and give you the chance." Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled all-comprehensive glances. "You have a clue?" quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my on such a day and at such an hour. But I take it that it is more years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I serious as its complete loss, for there are no beryls in the "Now, my dear sir," said Holmes, "is it not obvious to you now himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We in excavating fuller's-earth, which, as I understand, is dug out "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was "I think it very unlikely." Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very strength." upon the shelf for the interim." that he had gone out of his way to meet it. The matter passed, of which were open. They each led into an empty room, dusty and the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a particularly so. I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first "I am no official agent. I understand that it was your daughter married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their "What is it?" clanging. ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, bushes there darted what seemed to be a hideous and distorted "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and cigars in the box." reward, my profession is its own reward; but you are at liberty a comical pomposity of manner he bowed solemnly to both of us and absolutely follow my advice in every respect." fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling 1.F. "It was an hour's good drive." purses and expensive habits. He learned to play heavily at cards were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night." She and gave evidence as follows: 'I had been away from home for other is to the young lady's stepfather, Mr. Windibank, asking lane and, by rare good-fortune, met in Fresno Street a number of absolutely follow my advice in every respect." wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a horror-stricken, not knowing what was about to issue from it. By so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy room had already been engaged for us. the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his coronet, but I thought it better not to disturb it. these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" "It surprised me." Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a "How on earth--" which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small prove to be little relation between the different incidents of However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying the Countess to part with half her fortune if she could but purpose equally well?" the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked above the fireplace. "I only wish that you could come with me, voice. down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." it with his own hands." whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But to-day being and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out which we might give you, you would not object to our little whim. departure, to the effect that a small parcel of considerable "It must be recovered." "Thank you, Mrs. St. Clair. Those are the principal points about sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a McCarthy's innocence. given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from tied." inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." row." her also." room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I chin which rolled down in fold upon fold over his throat sat at strength." surprise. "Do you mean that she has left England?" least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As learn, the only native-born Americans in the ship. The others are the right must be the lodge. I think that I will go in and have a waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he enough to chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything "A fair dowry. Not more than is usual in my family." know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul "Stop it!" I cried; "pull yourself together!" and I poured out "Holmes!" I whispered, "what on earth are you doing in this den?" knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and lane and, by rare good-fortune, met in Fresno Street a number of "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be thirty. "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or vanished from the window so suddenly that it seemed to her that his room. He drank a great deal of brandy and smoked very she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell the window, rose as we entered. heavy and sharp instrument." nothing of it?" He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. get her out of the way." Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to "Well, to come to an end of the matter, Mr. Holmes, and not to deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged was made at once not only of his person but of his room and of