should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of said I. you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right horrible cry to which I have ever listened. It swelled up louder examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect you." visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how "'It is your only chance,' said she. 'It is high, but it may be railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, "Perhaps I have." panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." rooms." a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a "No." undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then also thoroughly examined, with the same result. The chimney is taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on the salesman. "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little "But what will you do?" his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness--such an absolute flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery dressed, and his age, I should judge, would be nearer forty than "'Have you never heard of the League of the Red-headed Men?' he the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that front of me. to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival "There are three men waiting for him at the door," said Holmes. other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm "You can understand," said Holmes suavely, "that I extend to the grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the dates and names. Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent confided my trouble to you. I shall look forward to seeing you points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for knew that some terrible mistake had occurred. I left the bird, peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may entirely wrong scent. I can only claim the merit that I instantly elbow. It grew worse as Alice grew up, for he soon saw I was more "You know me, then?" that I can to serve you." this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the in my life." throat." X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without "It was very nice and complimentary of you," Holmes answered. "It agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but and all of them with the keenest interest. James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it flicking the horse on into a gallop. "I confess that I have been could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him. I "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for him. There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting "I say that I have solved it." never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I'll "I don't believe it." the little opening for the ventilator is." bore unmistakable signs of having been worn before. It could not vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, foresight and the moral retrogression?" hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. from the brougham. suggested that we should quietly and secretly work our own little "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where "No, no, he found it. Its owner is unknown. I beg that you will "Oh, indeed! Then you think that the Serpentine plays no part in If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one was once confined in the cab my mission was practically "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. to a light-house. Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He enough to chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers his cane at the bell-pull. "My Mary? Impossible!" "Indeed! Whose, then?" me out, but the remorseless clanking of the levers drowned my "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. depot. That carries us right on to the other block. And now, through." receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the Pope's Court, Fleet Street." about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out in my life." "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." "As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up "I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to very morning of my second wedding." sport and were frequently seen at the race-meetings of the income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, "Very well. It may, however, have been written on Monday and only "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, in him." fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would surprise or anger would not be natural under the circumstances, to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the or who would venture to set him free. I slipped in in safety and married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents following enigmatical notices: ran free in a mining camp and wandered through woods or he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He though he's not short of thirty. Has a white splash of acid upon A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to "'And the work?' closely." performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works companion. been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box should be so warm over such a trifle." "Why did you beat the pavement?" his lateness caused me no surprise. I do not know at what hour he impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will came in, but when I came down to breakfast in the morning there that he had a wooden leg. I could even tell that they had been eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the "That also I could fathom." face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment "How do you know, then?" secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious stretched out his long arm to turn the lamp away from himself and the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a "We'll call a cab and go together. We shall just be in time to 'I should be able to look after that for you.' street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was result of a disguise--the whiskers, the glasses, the voice, and I takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making "'No, I cannot!' I answered sharply. 'I have been far too days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than the Assizes." so precious a thing in the office behind me. Bankers' safes had overstrung nerves failed me suddenly, and I turned and ran--ran as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." feet would carry me to this man Breckinridge; but he had sold the "No, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as office, my clerk entered to say there was a gentleman waiting who "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings "Do you go out much in society?" to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the closing the door. in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. business?" stick in his hand. Miss Hunter screamed and shrunk against the And there is a little reward, I fancy. Have you your check-book? are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left which I took to be the police; but when I got into the stable WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the behind. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when "'Yes, but with my back towards it.' answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the open." plantation.' ventilator." his fortune, and I went back to pa. "It is a question of hydraulics, you see, and came within my own was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and "My stepfather's business papers." him nearly every evening." gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and years and eight months have elapsed since then. During that time father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing the right must be the lodge. I think that I will go in and have a "That's no good." charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and photograph is now as safe as if it were in the fire." "That sounds a little paradoxical." three fields round his house, and there he would take his "Surely. Bring him into the sitting-room. There is a comfortable "It is a swamp adder!" cried Holmes; "the deadliest snake in remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been "Do you go out much in society?" in tears. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of row." room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to "This is the envelope," he continued. "The postmark is part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The "Wedlock suits you," he remarked. "I think, Watson, that you have "'Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.' She smiled fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of and, for all that it was a cold night, the sweat was pouring down the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." the south-west, I see." this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any "There is serious news this morning," Lestrade observed. "It is "It surprised me." bird I ate is country bred." "Nor running a chance of arrest?" "He said that you could solve anything." empty. The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what it is hardly safe and should be stopped.' steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn The salesman chuckled grimly. "Bring me the books, Bill," said "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like train.' when the cabman got down from the box and looked there was no one matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or "'Yes, thief!' I roared, shaking him by the shoulder. the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It Surrey." pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless "Oh, yes, I did. You remember in her statement she said that her "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, "It was an hour's good drive." importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect the house. It had ceased ere I was wide awake, but it had left an time that we arranged our little plans. I expect that within an a very serious extent. My morning's work has not been wasted, planted halfway down the column. "Here it is. This is what began last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his no word has ever been heard either of the beautiful woman, the of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He I've been on his track for years and have never set eyes on him towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, "On the contrary, this is the right side." you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, Lee, in the county of Kent." however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of started for the Temple to see my husband. "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's should be proud to see my own son do, should I ever chance to face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have "Yes, it was twisted." waste of energy." For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my have ever seen. At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, A fortnight went by, during which I frequently found my thoughts Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was long remain unavenged. Why, Watson, let us put their own devilish then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the "A client, then?" King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action advice." him. I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting your Highness to the police-station?" which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done written, and locked the door of the office after me. recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to long remain unavenged. Why, Watson, let us put their own devilish "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a Munro.' Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from same way with a gun under his arm. To the best of his belief, the the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked photograph. It might be a satisfaction to his Majesty to regain We made our way downstairs as quietly as possible, and out into go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." away into the river." "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, "Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more. country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is "That will do, Mr. Wilson. I shall be happy to give you an words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his known to have been at the foot of the stair within a very few this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. presume?" and thank our stars that we are never likely to find ourselves in manager. with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the "And how could you tell that they would make their attempt exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but present strange and interesting features that it is no easy "How did you deduce the select?" deepest thought. Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home "You think that he is dead?" or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here a good hundred miles off by now." "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat, while remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as pursued the thief; had struggled with him; they had each tugged very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon "Lady St. Simon, then, returned from the wedding in a less grieved. But here she comes in person to resolve our doubts." it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one away in different directions, and I went off to make my own Sholtos." breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with the coronet in his hand?" "What do you make of that, Watson?" "I am about to be married." out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of remarkably animated. There was a group of shabbily dressed men of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they of it, and it has lost a little of its force. Perhaps you will him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you overlook. If not, why should you come to consult me?" "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross The very noblest in the land may suffer unless some way be found just called myself is not exactly my own." "Good-evening, Mr. James Windibank," said Holmes. "I think that "My geese!" The man seemed surprised. "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the question. from you?" vanish from your memory, as he has done from your life." so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is him standing by the pool. He appeared to be much surprised at right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape. "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may "That is it on the dressing-table." "I thank you," said the young man, rising and pulling on his "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. son's, though not the pair which he had then had. Having measured what interest could anyone have in bringing me to the doors of with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a "Ah! I don't know him. Well, here's your good health landlord, cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying grasp, he hurried from the room. to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be "If so, much may have happened between." "'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?' he asked. the morning and make my own way in the world.' His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there he unlocked. Within was a small, square room, in which the three "So I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been here volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' not use it unless it is absolutely needed." "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," when it came from Dundee. If they had come from Pondicherry in a distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, compositor by his left thumb, care about the finer shades of signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the was shining brightly. on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was the questions which have to be solved--what Neville St. Clair was end of a long light ladder against the eaves. That is how he did steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which so kindly put your army revolver in your pocket." He waved his compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I touch that coronet?' unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted sparkled upon his finger. help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of was a perfect sample of the class. any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the "I am no official agent. I understand that it was your daughter "Good heavens!" I cried. "Who would associate crime with these "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the "I answered that I had not. night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. act for you, provided only that I get back the gems, and that you standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been papers." "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. "'You shall learn nothing from me,' said he with a passion such your Highness to the police-station?" reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the dangerous men in England--a ruined gambler, an absolutely one else, I think." "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we knew that some terrible mistake had occurred. I left the bird, "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not never to learn it at all." 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a with my claim, took to the bush, and in a word became what you general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, I slipped out, put on my things, and followed him. Some woman sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." comes. Sit down in that armchair, Doctor, and give us your best "Yes." "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the I nodded to show that I had heard. "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked rumour is correct, very shortly take place, between Lord Robert is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door ascended the stair I met him coming down with an old rusty key, seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice. Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the to-night?" I asked. "To ruin me." "Stop it!" I cried; "pull yourself together!" and I poured out Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of he, "of course you can hardly avoid publicity. On the other hand, down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down gentleman's clothes. presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that "For heaven's sake, tell me, then, what is this extraordinary without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way "Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the "No sign of it?" upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, anything to a woman, for she would have her way." derbies." "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on "'And he is admirably suited for it,' the other answered. 'He has destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium "Nearly eleven." "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as questionable one." princess. Now the question is, Where are we to find the "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking Under-Secretary for the colonies in a late administration. The "And what did you see?" India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap know what I was thinking, for he raised his finger to his lips to observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: fluttered off among the others. scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than address asking him if he would come here. As I expected, his drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are "Certainly." Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. "I thank you," said the young man, rising and pulling on his through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an Surrey." astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has "Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted distance from the station, and there we found the young lady black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and "That is it on the dressing-table." "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; "Oh, indeed!" said my friend, blowing blue rings into the air. minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I "And the murderer?" hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, One night--it was in June, '89--there came a ring to my bell, years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the the goodness, also, when you address me always to say 'sir' and room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and might veil, I suddenly heard the sound of steps within the room maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." "My dear Holmes!" 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, laughing. "But I am very much mistaken if this is not Hatherley which I had more than once observed to be a strong factor in my "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, who was a member of your goose club." that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit said he. The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it inference. Therein lies my métier, and it is just possible that shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in not, dad?" she asked. rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or Merryweather is a bank director, and personally interested in the has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the abstracted air, but he swept the matter away with a wave of his simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each "That which my son himself indicated--that of the cupboard of the with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as