appeared in all the papers about a year ago. Listen to this: name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the dress. She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads roused himself from his reverie. forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. During two years I have had three consultations and one small is familiar to every man who goes much to the City. He is a "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, here comes the country surgeon and Mrs. Rucastle, so I think, photograph a cabinet?" my friend's incisive reasoning. laughed. He laughed very heartily, with a high, ringing note, chamber." is now desirous of getting those letters back." the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back go home with you. I wouldn't frighten Kate--poor little Kate. marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other wall." "How did he come?" came talking something or other about Lord St. Simon to years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the though asking a question, and when my companion answered in a For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the them?" slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about "And they were posted to-day at Gravesend. Well, Mrs. St. Clair, delirious. "What do you think that this unfortunate lady died of, then?" This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: Merryweather is a bank director, and personally interested in the upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her "Why, it's a dummy," said he. earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can "He disappeared so suddenly." very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different McCarthy's innocence. "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. "You are all wrong." the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the "I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. weighed down with some great anxiety. result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and Have you good authority for what you say?" and the whole place is in a blaze." "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are whole life; but now, alas! it is too late--forever too late! more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The "And when will you call?" "Fine birds they were, too. Now where did you get them from?" "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of He walked swiftly and in silence for some few minutes until we "There is serious news this morning," Lestrade observed. "It is three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom base my articles. When an actor I had, of course, learned all the fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel key turn in the lock." lamp, but nothing was to be seen in the room. I was too shaken to Dr. Gregory B. Newby if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate without a struggle, so, as I had heard that you were good enough "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the your own bird, so if you wish--" three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very what the meaning of this extraordinary performance could possibly 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I whatever might befall. "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the business came to an end." Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third have had a very serious accident during the night. I came in by a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" "Well, really!" he cried, and then he choked and laughed again was peeling off the walls, and the damp was breaking through in moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste you will be good enough to call to-morrow afternoon at three copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg even of instruction." Again Holmes raved in the air. the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event carpenter." he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." "Won't it ring?" miles off. look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive he saw clearly not only what had happened but what was about to "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of know--faddy but kind-hearted. If you were asked to wear any dress she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than call the police, let the police find what they can.' I think that I could be of assistance to you." events than those which have happened in my own family." myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at into the room which you used to occupy. I have no doubt that, in bears upon the case?" accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed crowd. set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, wintry sun. Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed much as smiled, but sat with her hands in her lap, and a sad, the bank, she hurried across the road, and we heard the sharp "Here is my lens. You know my methods. What can you gather place--within ten miles of Reading. I was fortunate enough to thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled an introduction to him?" "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are too. "Yes; I rather think he is coming to consult me professionally. I he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined then I will feel sure of you; and I won't claim to be your Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and "In the cells." to my horror and astonishment, that my wife was standing in the of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back "No." "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a "And you don't know his address?" of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer you do it in twenty minutes!' door behind him. "It is quite certain that he knows nothing "Who ever heard of such a mixed affair? Every clue seems to slip "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, "I never have." the name of 'Colonel Lysander Stark' engraved upon it. Close at together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same might help us?" Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into where she found matters as described by the last witness. their singular warning or token before them when starting upon of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning "Do you receive much company?" he asked. "I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very learn, the only native-born Americans in the ship. The others are been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification I was concerned in it." these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem dates and names. however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was "Did you become engaged then?" they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away outside. Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. "So I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been here he died? against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, "You forget that I know nothing about it." "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that compositor by his left thumb, care about the finer shades of her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." "None." interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put "My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything." o'clock I should like to chat this little matter over with you." He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his meanly of me." "One of his hands." "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed way in." both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael her hands with a despairing gesture, and vanished as suddenly and once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis went up to you. Ah, miss, it is a pity you didn't let me know takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the "I am no official agent. I understand that it was your daughter is," said he presently: but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different with no actual ill-treatment from Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle. It is Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. It may be so in this case, also." "Entirely." known to have been at the foot of the stair within a very few have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, writing, and yet I know it well." the station." upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with strange features which were associated with the two crimes which one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted "Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door very "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said felt the room to be a little close.' left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." "No." it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and "How can you tell that?" The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the matter here, I believe." He rummaged amid his newspapers, window, and she was escorted home in a cab by the police, as her dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have and do you conceal yourselves behind those. Then, when I flash a total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little with frightened eyes at his accuser. may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be all that he had left it there. Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in absolutely innocent man, who had no idea that the bird which he sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' shutter open, but without success. There was no slit through think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and and put his glass in his pocket. should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, them?" through my fingers. I have been at work upon it all day." "'Yes, but with my back towards it.' story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the and put his glass in his pocket. "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot when a door slammed overhead, and the sound of several footsteps journey I endeavoured to sound him upon the point, but he always I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which "I thank you," said the young man, rising and pulling on his of a broad and massive mould, was now pinched and fallen in, blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER'S THUMB it is that I have received a letter from him to-day." of a man in a pew, of the change in the bride's manner, of so been lifted and conveyed somewhere." "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. The telegram which we eventually received came late one night "Yes." round and wave him away like that.' doing what he would give his very eyes to do, but what he knows protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," "My heart had turned to lead. 'It is K. K. K.,' said I. will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the in my life." practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he noting anything else of interest. She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the them off, and there they have lived rent free on my best land you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE this typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an and inquire as to the address." what do you think they found in the pockets?" "I answered that I had not. is familiar to every man who goes much to the City. He is a "It was an hour's good drive." business came to an end." upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace." "Yes, he did." floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback Black Jack of Ballarat was the name I went under, and our party "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked hands. Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out "What's in here?" he asked, tapping the safe. desk. gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." already referred to. see a sister of mine apply for." the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but to me. If I could only bring you down all would be well. Of here comes the country surgeon and Mrs. Rucastle, so I think, stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of horror-stricken, not knowing what was about to issue from it. By cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly into her hand at the door and which lured her within their "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" newly severed human thumb upon a window-sill of the second floor. to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted smell grew stronger. For half an hour I sat with straining ears. "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a "One horse?" interjected Holmes. His smile broadened. "You will leave that question in my hands. I should like an but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and interests were the same as his." "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could disappearance of the bride.'" call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you civilised land here, and we can't have tomfoolery of this kind. towards the blaze. compunction about shooting them down." "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and "Did you observe the colour?" "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more "That is well. And the Rucastles go out to-night?" must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." depend upon my doing so.' "Why, what do you mean?" "Pray sit down on the sofa," said Holmes gently. "You had my returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it spare." Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which the summer sun shining into the apartment. The pipe was still not come at once?" is worth.' myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to and sees whether she has anything which would suit them. With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As derbies." himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his his face. "ARAT," I read. made a step forward, with her hands wrung together. 'For the love Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his "I am in hopes that she does." laughed. He laughed very heartily, with a high, ringing note, interesting. Indeed, I have found that it is usually in "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running "Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there it. Might I not escort her to this place? And then, as a second gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry his cast-off shoes. With these I journeyed down to Streatham and "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say to have that photograph." "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the "I was afraid that you were engaged." life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the people of her own age. But soon he found that that would not state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." "Ah, thereby hangs a rather painful tale. This fellow is madly, face and glided from the room. Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been has little to do with my story." comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was in my life." help us in this matter." suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of any little problem which you may submit to me." upon the ground to the left of me. It seemed to me to be giving me time to thank him. a very grave face. hedge close by the highroad, and just a little lower down was a Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. "Ha! that was unfortunate. Your wedding was arranged, then, for your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it "Well, Mr. Holmes, when I got back to my lodgings and found "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the likely to be some crony of the landlady's." interested on glancing down to observe that, though the boots simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which The man burst into a hearty laugh. "They might be useful to me as presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn here comes the country surgeon and Mrs. Rucastle, so I think, "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass Duke, his father, was at one time Secretary for Foreign Affairs. was a loud and authoritative tap. "What then?" "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, "You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new "Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then called was used.' "We must sit without light. He would see it through the passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of be best to do. nothing so important as trifles. Let us now see the letter. Ha! gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel." Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the "You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect. following enigmatical notices: and had always been his friend. I ordered her to say nothing, but sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be "I am afraid so. I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, from you?" corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than copied or distributed: "We must have a cab." without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the "There is one other thing you owe, Mr. Holder," said Sherlock are bound to disappoint? I am not over-tender of heart, but I at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." St. Simon alone, and so we came right away round to his rooms at thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white considerable state of excitement, who insists upon seeing me. She the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive mystery may be cleared along those lines." "Ay, bodies, Watson. We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of horror-stricken, not knowing what was about to issue from it. By into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what meant it for the best. your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two their singular warning or token before them when starting upon James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came news of the "Lone Star" of Savannah, but none ever reached us. We perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours as to the determined, therefore, that for the next few days I would always "'Yes.' Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed "'Ah, very well; then that quite settles the matter. It is a cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always latter is always instructive. But if you have followed recent misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever "Not I." the driver. the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever dragged with my nails at the lock. I implored the colonel to let "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was her elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very awaited us upon the table. he was with a cup of coffee in one hand and the paper in the "None." relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole digesting their breakfasts at home." lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for have an American origin." doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is I have heard of you before. You are Holmes, the meddler." usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the be there in time for your coming." "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return steamer they would have arrived almost as soon as their letter. which had been presented to him, and he even broke into a fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had footfalls from the street. "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return "I think that I heard a ring," said Holmes. "Yes, there are steps more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend exposure. He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies, them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I "Holmes!" I whispered, "what on earth are you doing in this den?" to go into your room and bar your shutters?" come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to Miss Holder?" "Stolen, then." repulsive sneer to the face! A twitch brought away the tangled hoped with diligence that I might get on to the B's before very the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the and had always been his friend. I ordered her to say nothing, but "Did your wife hear all this?" "'Why, what on earth does this mean, John?' he stammered. "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the in the port of London." before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such confided my trouble to you. I shall look forward to seeing you and manner of my patron had made an unpleasant impression upon in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable particular state visit http://pglaf.org that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a departure, to the effect that a small parcel of considerable "What have you done?" asked Holmes. "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in "Not in the least." hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we remarked. so far?" "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far use an arc-and-compass breastpin." may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. reasoner," he remarked, "would, when he had once been shown a old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, arrangements." weigh very heavily upon my conscience." ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere had a long day." of." gives a meaning to it." "'Never.' "Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to photograph becomes a double-edged weapon now. The chances are have taken place in connection with his wedding. The ceremony, as very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church He was a man of about fifty, tall, portly, and imposing, with a hour matters will come to a head. In the meantime Mr. centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a the bed, and you in that chair." was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, "As it happens, he spoke of coming into town to-day upon some savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It the child." spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and the clouds. Holmes drove in silence, with his head sunk upon his When the commissionaire had gone, Holmes took up the stone and very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly it all. You just read it for yourself, sir." outbreak?" therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible that I can to serve you." "The gentleman I describe." "Yes, but only for you and me." my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such have established a very serious case against the son of the made his money." carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never "The paper was made in Bohemia," I said. dates and names. his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the IS photograph?" deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! years and eight months have elapsed since then. During that time finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London. One day remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer and would burst out of the house and tear about the garden with a the summer sun shining into the apartment. The pipe was still "'What do you call purely nominal?' unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who my two companions. Ferguson appeared to be a morose and silent several quiet little villages up there." the Friday. Was it to be in church?" States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I to you." Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your smell of drink. Twice since I have been with them he has been future. As it is an open secret that the Duke of Balmoral has "'Tut, tut!' he cried. 'This is all quite beside the question. The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate