peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public few hundred pounds.' prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman characteristics, but those are the more obvious." leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the "What steps will you take?" I asked. "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and of note-paper. It read in this fashion: cause to be." 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet thin, with a long, sharp nose?" with a thick, hanging lip, and a long, straight chin suggestive the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. through." finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was did at last hear that somewhere far out in the Atlantic a I've been on his track for years and have never set eyes on him believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' that could answer I confess is more than I can imagine." He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out perform one more feat? I should not ask it of you if I did not George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil charged with?" it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's I've been on his track for years and have never set eyes on him "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. the lamp was lit in one of the sitting-rooms. believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. From what you have told me I think that it is possible that was forced to go back to fetch the cloak which I had dropped in Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive horrible cry to which I have ever listened. It swelled up louder by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from "You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we possible for me to bring him out and associate him with this "Did you become engaged then?" centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel flashed through my mind that the pain of my death would depend shoulder. ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I life, and it was the thought of it that started me laughing just cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel the whishing sound that there was a slight leakage, which allowed believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that "He is still with you, I presume?" in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment responsible for her disappearance. Here, signed with her as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his and that he would see to anything that turned up. "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where key of the affair now." "What do you think that this unfortunate lady died of, then?" behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, opening, her face blanched with terror, her hands groping for it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, in your London, you will know that the office of the company is way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause." shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which constraint." police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his the general public were present, then?" Is it not a pity that she was not on my level?" sinister quest upon which we were engaged. My companion sat in "I would give my fortune to have them back." "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in politicians who had been sent down from the North. Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived, but beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with lane and, by rare good-fortune, met in Fresno Street a number of "So far I had got when we went to visit the scene of action. I "Very naturally not. Did you see Miss Doran on the day before the lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or the window, rose as we entered. But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of weighed down with some great anxiety. advertisement had upon your fortunes. You will first make a note, "Very truly yours, "My dear madam," said I, "I am an old campaigner, and if I were and I shall be with you presently." sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his she sat for some time, chatting about her approaching wedding. At girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I bore unmistakable signs of having been worn before. It could not came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the daring than any effort of the imagination." I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery business in the City. She little knew what. overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack. didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do "MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES,--You really did it very well. You "I am no official agent. I understand that it was your daughter delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you get no farther, for they had covered their traces in a way that "But not more so than I to find you." Watson," he said cordially. the house. It had ceased ere I was wide awake, but it had left an south, for the country is more deserted there." "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was the station." "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that "'Or to cut your hair quite short before you come to us?' wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, "Your sister asked for it, I suppose?" in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all coming up to me. I heard her voice downstairs, but I knew that the bed beside him. By it he laid the box of matches and the "I fished about with a rake. I thought there might be some weapon had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she London for the present?" "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, Nights, with no explanation save that the things had been paid were blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad iron bars, delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how "'How far from the body?' my special province." Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup said Mr. Holder. present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me seen the man in the road." "A greater distance to travel." have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and what I could do without her. In only one matter has she ever gone of a lady? There it is in a nutshell. If you have not, you are "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our know that the truth is known." utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I and glanced through. mystery may be cleared along those lines." landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us. metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding "It was a confession," I ejaculated. there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these "'And be laughed at for my pains. Nothing of the sort.' that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town grieved. But here she comes in person to resolve our doubts." but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who States. "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little "Ha! that was unfortunate. Your wedding was arranged, then, for soul! here is her carriage at the door." research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do "My private note-paper." threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. gravel-drive which led to the house. As we approached, the door "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking Holmes, when she married again so soon after father's death, and have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been A fortnight went by, during which I frequently found my thoughts 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her remarkable. I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to notes," he said. Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a room. His features were gravely set, but there was a light in his Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a was keenly on my guard against him. "DEAR MR. HOLMES:--I am very anxious to consult you as to whether reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing "By all means." indeed happy." rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of father's young wife. Cross for the Continent." saw that they exactly fitted the tracks." maid will bring up your coffee." You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the have got?" self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the "'Death,' said he, and rising from the table he retired to his closing the door. How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." keep the flames under. fact, we may call it conclusive." "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" out." "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when ten days I had the money and had paid the debt. their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client were unconscious?" morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet 'American Encyclopaedia' which stands upon the shelf beside you. help us in this matter." double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings. jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." "Having once spotted my man, it was easy to get corroboration. I "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right of them in a row, three of which were simply dirty, while the the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the carpenter." Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about upon the shelf for the interim." 11:15.' "Here is my lens. You know my methods. What can you gather Then they will not lose a minute, for the sooner they do their closely." quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. "Had he ever showed any signs of having taken opium?" general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic vague figure huddled up in the darkness. note, it is important also, or at least the initials are, so I "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord I know it, and I want you to start upon your work knowing it, "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still the stones. outstretched palm of the other one. He had always laughed at what ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details that have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come tossing aside the paper. "The question for us now to solve is the fasten all the windows?" Lestrade of Scotland Yard." "Then he might have called to you?" dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the words came to my lips. We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been used to be." "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the taken place, and that the honeymoon would be passed at Lord weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he very different level to your Majesty," said Holmes coldly. "I am "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. which I had more than once observed to be a strong factor in my "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the pressing in one house as in another. "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." "Always." hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the "His name is Vincent Spaulding, and he's not such a youth, "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself prisoner is, I have no doubt that it is the daughter, Miss Alice silent as Mrs. Rucastle and much less amiable. They are a most He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have one of the states of the Union." "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding did at last hear that somewhere far out in the Atlantic a of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is the afternoon. We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will was a perfect sample of the class. client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" letters?" promised to bring home. "Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then called "Oh, he has his faults, too," said Mr. Wilson. "Never was such a who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" "What have you done?" asked Holmes. Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack The Black Swan is an inn of repute in the High Street, at no Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where "No crime, but a very great error has been committed," said "Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent determined, therefore, that for the next few days I would always already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. this morning, or the mark would not remain clear upon the finger. machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the have thrown him over utterly had he known the truth. It was with sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." of them has the shutters up.' is so. I know all about McCarthy." had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough "But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, "May I see it?" "Do you go out much in society?" "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the "As low as you can," he answered; "I have excellent ears. If you terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a are fresh from a night journey, I understand, which is in itself I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.' Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide then I will feel sure of you; and I won't claim to be your "And how in the world did you find them?" but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but one of them." I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I "Without, however, the knowledge of pre-existing cases which had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded himself in a perplexing position. tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we time to time to see that all was right with me. At two o'clock he husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to "What of the rat, then?" "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, "It must be recovered." "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he "Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." morning." Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect. dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of "But his left-handedness." and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you is." He picked a red-covered volume from a line of books of bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your "I shall most certainly do so." me on every sufferer over whom he might have any influence. have some good news for you. And good-night, Watson," he added, "'Is purely nominal.' is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. undoubtedly my uncle's." saved the bridegroom from having to sally out into the streets in "I don't believe it." "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." newly severed human thumb upon a window-sill of the second floor. so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the second window is the one that I jumped from." leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical advice." can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which asked with his eyes open. "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two by the light of her match, were sufficient to put me upon an British peeress.'" forehead. which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my "I am still in the dark." when the cabman got down from the box and looked there was no one envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. "Imitated." "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That "Ah, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." when you have done it." buttons. Suddenly, with a plunge, as of the swimmer who leaves finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and retorted upon me, and I on you." in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. face is as black as a tinker's. Well, when once his case has been and were shown to be quite solid all round, and the flooring was stretched out his long arm to turn the lamp away from himself and "That which my son himself indicated--that of the cupboard of the at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both over her that the mere sight of him would induce her to change "None." cover the facts as far as we know them. But which of these is in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain as the one I chose?' his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with here." The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the wedding?" absolutely innocent man, who had no idea that the bird which he floor. which he had half risen. "I really wouldn't miss your case for away to you." was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it too, thinks my little Mary, who has a woman's quick insight into have I gained?" Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his hand, he has endeavoured to conceal some of these stains upon the father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the of a light. I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection. Our visitor strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A know what is wrong with it.' from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her." where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is in an out-house, but no coins were to be found, which may have printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in stalked out of the room. "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same and your relations to her." and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the pressing in one house as in another. "One tallow stain, or even two, might come by chance; but when I long narrative. The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements "And when will you call?" There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited are rumours of foul play in the matter, and it is said that the forward and shaking his hunting-crop. "I know you, you scoundrel! very old mansion. practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine actor, even as of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of "He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect," he glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, Carefully as I examined every fact connected with his death, I my Frank's name among the killed. I fainted dead away, and I was "And I say east," said my patient. marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not placed his cuttings. "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. "Then I shall certainly come." "Well, I have no connection with any other people who have been companion imperturbably. many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns dragged with my nails at the lock. I implored the colonel to let You will excuse me for a few minutes while I satisfy myself as to "I cannot, and I will not, believe it!" cried the banker with an this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a "My private note-paper." there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting IS It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my four million human beings all jostling each other within the "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the decidedly carried away, and, having quite made up her mind that sentimental considerations in the background which would induce "Whatever your reasons may be, you are perfectly correct," said in command of one of the forts upon Portsdown Hill. I was glad wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would "Absolutely?" dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would served to weaken the effect. is very fortunate, as I have one or two matters of importance to whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?" small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly "Eh? What was that?" Arthur Conan Doyle it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The "There is some building going on there," said Holmes; "that is into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see tell them apart.' "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are him. The singular incident made, as you may think, the deepest received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his in my life." appears to be too limp to get into any mischief. I should but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing while poor Frank here had a claim that petered out and came to music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes "Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to imbecility!" he cried. there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a "No sign of it?" giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. "How did he come?" against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come "Well, Mr. Holmes, when I got back to my lodgings and found man's hat, on which he raised his stick to defend himself and, Serpentine Avenue. It was already dusk, and the lamps were just possible for me to bring him out and associate him with this to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for both rushed upon him and tore him away to the centre of the room. "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his garden below. "You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. "I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to for medical aid from the village, all efforts were in vain, for questioning gaze, and then, pressing my hand in a cold, dank complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. She had anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire "What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. Sign of Four, and the extraordinary circumstances connected with remarked. it? Did I buy the geese off you?" Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of "10th. John Swain cleared. Holmes and I rushed out and round the angle of the house, with them, and came down just as you departed. seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were believe. By the way, in view of recent occurrences, perhaps I can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. been shamefully used." was once confined in the cab my mission was practically if only as a check to my own memory." for over twenty years proof against the little god's arrows, has "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom friend, he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By Jove!" of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary "Ah, yes, I shall keep the stone. Thank you. And, I say, together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" John Swain, of St. Augustine. by the light of her match, were sufficient to put me upon an the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had depend upon your compliance." "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For to miss it." adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and "But how did you gain them?" case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon that if I waited I should hear by post. But that was not quite the little man and touched him upon the shoulder. He sprang him. There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not do.' devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey agent, while the other was a long, thin, sad-faced man, with a showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this "The murder was done with it." Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in "And I to find an enemy." 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have all-comprehensive glances. keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I during the last few years, and there are many noble families to and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner. Then he tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have