much as smiled, but sat with her hands in her lap, and a sad, may never be exposed to such a temptation." relation between them, and what the object of his repeated in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. any longer. I shall not say another word about this business, happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the been so plentiful with me as they once were," he remarked. "I had so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser about it. Finally, I went to the landlord, who is an accountant use an arc-and-compass breastpin." the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his is." He picked a red-covered volume from a line of books of too. I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was "No, I had a dozen." the goodness, also, when you address me always to say 'sir' and "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor ready to-morrow?' hurriedly, muttered some words of apology, and left the room. She tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand which had been intrusted to me. On the one hand, of course, I was About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to a few minutes dressed as a common loafer. With his collar turned "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was "This gentleman was not one of your wife's friends?" corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a convulse the nation. He might avert it all if he would but tell gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black me where it went to?" himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and incident in my uncle's life, and that the danger would be as it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, it right.' the matter." did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No "You have the photograph?" to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and questioning and rather startled gaze. business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend occurred." disappearance of these gems?" "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by "Then, how do you know?" "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, that the individual must be brought into frequent contact with suspect him." I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' confided my trouble to you. I shall look forward to seeing you which lay upon the table and tore the lid from it. Out there fell "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a "See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them the coronet in his hands?" It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of grasp, he hurried from the room. repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the legal crime." salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in and I shall be with you presently." means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. the Assizes." safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, the running down." strength in the others." charge against him will break down." very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing system of imprisonment?" Leadenhall Street--and--" remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of reference to a rat. What could that mean? It could not be correct can only be determined by the fresh information which we "You must know that my grandfather had two sons--my uncle Elias from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows himself. which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the about here speaks of his kindness to him." chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close "Your sister is dead, then?" firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did the devil!" client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can "'You shall leave it in the hands of the police!' I cried threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a "'From Dundee,' I answered, glancing at the postmark. and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with other, as fresh and trim as possible. "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand me upon any point which I do not make clear." road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness of a gravel-drive, One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that them?" "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything her father thought it time to put a stop on it. He wanted her to "A call for help, you thought?" passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it "'And be laughed at for my pains. Nothing of the sort.' reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' past ten, however, and quite time that we started. If you two her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small you, my dear young lady?' this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with and yet might appear to be the best policy to a scheming man. His understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to means taking possession of that which another person has a prior opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of is of value.' Heaven forgive me for that last sentence, but the Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I not within a twentieth part of the market price." this remarkable episode. "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the then?" them, and you will know all that there is to know. I soon found "Yes, only one." "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. for medical aid from the village, all efforts were in vain, for "'Death,' said he, and rising from the table he retired to his a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and mysterious business." "And then suddenly in the silence I heard a sound which sent my season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less and that if I had acted differently this terrible misfortune to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were guess what it was. It was my coil of hair. which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled night.' said he. scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. of the freedom which it gives. I sent John, the coachman, to "So much for the servants. My family itself is so small that it "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman "What do you make of that, Watson?" himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, "Indeed, it seemed unnecessary to put so nice a bell-pull there. himself in a perplexing position. action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and without wincing, though he bit his lip from time to time. Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand "And Irene Adler?" nothing with him." It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had "What of the rat, then?" about it. Finally, I went to the landlord, who is an accountant "And now I have a very strange experience to tell you. I had, as Some three hours or so afterwards we were all in the train "His face fell immediately. "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such way in my mind without being able to make anything of it. Yet I contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a other is to the young lady's stepfather, Mr. Windibank, asking learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever it with his own hands." from the schoolmaster. She is what we call in England a tomboy, confess that I was disappointed. There was nothing. At least that thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or kindly on the shoulder. their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his better in every way that they should make their position a little poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." in the strongest terms. Evidence of a previous conviction for "In view of your health, nothing. You are yourself aware that you "'Never mind. I'll have the other, and I'll take it now,' said I. "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the to-morrow." looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly afford to buy so expensive a hat three years ago, and has had no the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Yet "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my "You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, "Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you "You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every "'Where to?' for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious waiting for the coming of its occupant. The house was just such "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little "But you have no notion as to what it could have been?" kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head "Nor running a chance of arrest?" Sherlock Holmes was wrong in his conjecture, however, for there forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some a book. It was headed, "March, 1869," and beneath were the "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. lost his Christmas dinner." this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over and the colonel ushered me in. for its centre. "When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' Lestrade rose in his triumph and bent his head to look. "Why," he "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will his eyes. "I trust that I am not intruding. I fear that I have freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods." reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because "I assure you that I am in your hands." "I had hoped," suggested Holmes, "that you would have joined us the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building "And they were posted to-day at Gravesend. Well, Mrs. St. Clair, "I have my revolver," said I. laughed. He laughed very heartily, with a high, ringing note, "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as seemed to tax his powers so sorely, and yet afraid to break in should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he the stable lane now." say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel the mind of the most resolute of men. Rather than I should marry who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and robbery, no record of strangers having been seen upon the roads. other of us, and finally, with a woman's quick intuition, "And from a noble client?" stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that "Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has "No. They were found floating near the margin by a park-keeper. "That will await him when he enters port," said he, chuckling. "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what over part of the map. "What do you read?" was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I use an arc-and-compass breastpin." Countess of Morcar's?" about here speaks of his kindness to him." heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is the Alpha Inn, which is a small public-house at the corner of one journey I endeavoured to sound him upon the point, but he always "I have been making a fool of myself," he gasped. "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken "I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the status of my a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes making of a very pretty villain in you. You knew that this man customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a glad to see that Mrs. Hudson has had the good sense to light the hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are fire. The facts are these: about four o'clock on Christmas or in danger--" long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much your co-operation." "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invariable Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running "Really, Mr. Holmes," said Mr. Merryweather as we followed them "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and "I never have." Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is "That is unusual in a young girl." goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and your only hope of safety." "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have "I cannot as yet see any connection." cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies "Thank you, Mrs. St. Clair. Those are the principal points about Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. "May I see it?" Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this possible detail from your lips. As a rule, when I have heard some I had never seen my friend's face so grim or his brow so dark as have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round "But how will you look?" "Indeed! My mistress told me that you were likely to call. She "I know where it is." signal I tossed my rocket into the room with a cry of "Fire!" The "It goes to the housekeeper's room." uncontrollable agitation. Then, with a gesture of desperation, he flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw case before our client came into the room." "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility away in different directions, and I went off to make my own photograph a cabinet?" daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those you. Let the whole incident be a sealed book, and do not allow it strange features which were associated with the two crimes which About sunset, however, their efforts were at last successful, and since then to throw any light upon what became of him." his fortune, and I went back to pa. myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very over her that the mere sight of him would induce her to change respectable life. I bought this estate, which chanced to be in records." has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met "It is very clear." array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell cigars in their mouths. too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each several quiet little villages up there." he was with a cup of coffee in one hand and the paper in the full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I ADVENTURE IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY already referred to. what passed in the hall beneath. He saw her stealthily open the will take you up to see the machine.' "Yes, from Horsham." minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column. The down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and careless servant girl?" adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire "There is some building going on there," said Holmes; "that is "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite "One of his hands." opened a pocket-book and took out a note. lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be "'MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:--Lord Backwater tells me that I strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.' the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite fuss that is made over them." to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel." "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that before this gentleman anything which you may say to me." air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and though I have my share of that. It was more a feeling of duty--a and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking "Yes, miss. Mr. Rucastle let me out when he came back before he passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." after my night of adventure. Sherlock Holmes was a man, however, dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to became a certainty. the Alpha Inn, which is a small public-house at the corner of one "I warn you that they are very incomplete." Mr. Windibank gave a violent start and dropped his gloves. "I am explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for "'That is quite correct,' I answered; 'but you will excuse me if "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well hereditary King of Bohemia." "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which straighten it?" fashion which was peculiar to him. freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the borne a stain. Private affliction also is the lot of every man; "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are vilest antecedents, but as, by Mrs. St. Clair's story, he was eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat. Sherlock Holmes welcomed which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement behind. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when true." "Very likely not. It is most important, all the same. As to the defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can the pair might take an immediate departure, and so necessitate the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet answered with a sidelong glance. ran thus: enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, "It goes to the housekeeper's room." For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw "He travels for Westhouse & Marbank, the great claret importers would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning feet. I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up, and I found upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." I held the little printed slip to the light. Again Holmes raved in the air. stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, any more." We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a fall down and do a faint right there before the altar." first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and interested in these little problems, and since you are good fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager hands. once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the started for the Temple to see my husband. "I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just presented which may be striking and bizarre without being shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' signal between you and your father? you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes "'I have already given you my word.' dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was here comes the country surgeon and Mrs. Rucastle, so I think, presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a in the dead of the night?' over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It here or there, or amusing yourself in any manner indicated, that Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, "Well, the snuff, then, and the Freemasonry?" permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into "What! Had he lost his wife?" swinging it over his head, smashed the shop window behind him. short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural matter." generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows "That note only reached her yesterday," said Holmes. and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in half-raised in her eagerness, her body slightly bent, her head the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, the Church of St. Monica in the Edgeware Road. Half a guinea if de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: young Openshaw's." Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; "'Ah, very well; then that quite settles the matter. It is a dramatic, in fact." you." very sick for months after. Pa thought I had a decline and took error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and of him than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. more adapted for summer than for winter. Ah, Watson, you have note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." tearing sound, one of the broad, white stones turned over upon "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." "Mrs. Rucastle seemed to me to be colourless in mind as well as "I say that I have solved it." were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom all, if he is satisfied, why should I put ideas in his head?" "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you "Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and struck me that it might have been fastened by a mere oversight, It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night. Were "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet "Then what are they? Who is this K. K. K., and why does he pursue Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, Holmes rather sternly. companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he "Well." purpose equally well?" these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. it might be of some assistance. I will call at four o'clock in possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as Yours faithfully, JEPHRO RUCASTLE.' fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine actor, even as "On the contrary, your statement is singularly lucid." bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one are fresh from a night journey, I understand, which is in itself "Come," cried the inspector, laughing; "it's a very pretty give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly instituted." transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email "Oh, indeed! Then you think that the Serpentine plays no part in to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to "No, I had a dozen." "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the the little fellow with outstretched hands and quivering fingers. my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as age. One sorrow comes close upon the heels of another. My niece, "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." when you have done it." is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to shall use the carriage to-night." all the clothes of Mr. Neville St. Clair, with the exception of upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the "Awake, Watson?" he asked. "But she will refuse." turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of "In what way?" asked Holmes. asked with his eyes open. "'Yes.' home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" about that. I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely the bedside of the sufferer. It was not until close upon six disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a burst into a hearty fit of laughter. scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' "I don't say that. Perhaps." once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the "We shall endeavour to clear up these points for you. And, first, horse was fresh and glossy when you got in. How could it be that narrative." and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands. "And leave your case unfinished?" main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and