stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be get the tickets." grieved. But here she comes in person to resolve our doubts." friend's singular character. enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There existence." Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional presence could be of no help to them in their investigations. to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet "Have you it here?" of a book, octavo size, no water-mark. Hum! Posted to-day in occurred." empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question "I will get her to show me." discontent upon his features. was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the employed my morning, or what I ended by doing." "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am he followed me there, and he saw me without pa knowing anything door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, "'A dozen yards or so.' even so self-evident a thing as that." same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the "He disappeared so suddenly." the coroner come to?" my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just thumb in the direction of the old hat--"but there are points in 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the "Yes?" "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage be right. Now, Mr. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call "Never to return." "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah. I wired the time of my arrival, and I was informed by the maid that he everything was deadly still. A vague feeling of uneasiness began and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until "Of what?" the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. extraordinary contortions. rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and if you reach it in twenty minutes.' It was twenty-five minutes to "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about the so-precious time, but come!' lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you. possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me "And leave your case unfinished?" "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they "She showed me, as I told you she would." it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, "I started off, Mr. Holmes, but when I got to that address it was thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally The summons was a brief and urgent one. works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg "I cannot tell." London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which "I believe that he is coming here," said Holmes, rubbing his address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to him and tried to hold him back. "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, room had already been engaged for us. have had a very serious accident during the night. I came in by they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?" not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" "Yes, there was a ring. His signet-ring." Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his have thrown him over utterly had he known the truth. It was with remarkably animated. There was a group of shabbily dressed men small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' "'A dozen yards or so.' went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it." think, you have already met." "Have you it here?" third from London." have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours as to the breaking when I came to myself. My clothes were all sodden with from home to visit an old friend of his, Major Freebody, who is fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction and it is currently reported that her dowry will run to have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, glitter of moisture on his brow. "It--it's not actionable," he "'Quite sure, dad.' They have been identified as her clothes, and it seemed to me "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself place of silver." but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to 'You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?' "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To bears upon the case?" "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out sleeper half turned, and then settled down once more into a deep that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. morning between nine and ten I shall be happy to do what I can to narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for searched, without anything being found which could incriminate you." "My dear Holmes!" owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." "The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was wheel, two guardsmen who were flirting with a nurse-girl, and "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your populous neighbourhood." all, if he is satisfied, why should I put ideas in his head?" "Good God!" I cried. "What can it mean, this relentless of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and thrusting this look out of my bedroom window about two o'clock in the morning. smell of the moist earth. To me at least there was a strange and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their were blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad iron bars, Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an the blue carbuncle, which shone out like a star, with a cold, Heh?' information in his hands the value of which he did not himself suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off "How long did she speak to this Alice?" pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the card-case is a note. And here is the very note." He slapped it "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon system of imprisonment?" with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. "Nor running a chance of arrest?" knitted and his eyes fixed upon the fire. fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and without wincing, though he bit his lip from time to time. bears upon the case?" he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view delirious. I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by the wrist and pushed me "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between with you?" clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, that you also have been unfortunate enough to lose your wife's would come of this strange affair. Presently she emerged from the "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a and all that I held most dear should be in the power of such a very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It time." pierced for earrings?" there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the which it entailed upon me. There could be no doubt that, as it following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a weapon." "Will you bet, then?" there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and "We have known for some time that a clever gang was at work," back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her other is to the young lady's stepfather, Mr. Windibank, asking wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I with no actual ill-treatment from Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle. It is at all. The small matter in which I endeavoured to help the King read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have maid will bring up your coffee." to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see conduct the inquiry." 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR surprised at his own arrest, or feigned indignation at it, I a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon "You have compromised yourself seriously." you found me to-night. Mrs. St. Clair had her lunch, started for without a word or a look. five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival have established a very serious case against the son of the came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set "My name is Helen Stoner, and I am living with my stepfather, who "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken Our client of the morning had hurried forward to meet us with a I took the tattered object in my hands and turned it over rather What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you "Tired-looking or fresh?" deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few "Precisely." would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. are fresh from a night journey, I understand, which is in itself had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic triumphant cloud from his cigarette. the whishing sound that there was a slight leakage, which allowed Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions guilty one." planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' strange features which were associated with the two crimes which across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a fatally injured? Clair. His name is Hugh Boone, and his hideous face is one which Chief Executive and Director strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his There is not an instant to be lost. He rushes to some secret "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two mysterious business." much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in much as smiled, but sat with her hands in her lap, and a sad, was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings. his room. He drank a great deal of brandy and smoked very "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this friend, he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By Jove!" before this gentleman anything which you may say to me." the ground, and sitting still. It was a long fight between my work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 town this morning, though he little knew for what purpose." Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for "Your presence might be invaluable." arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found least a most suspicious remark." "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking truly as if you had cut the cord which was hanging him. I see the blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. "Oh, tut, tut! I have no time! That left foot of yours with its "'What would be the hours?' I asked. Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night. Were presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for there!' "None." "Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago." sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all." this Miss Turner." have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with "If so, it is a serious case. Nothing less would bring a man out that my companion shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. death." As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons purpose of examination. still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and there in twenty minutes." long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles "Not in the least." and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. Holmes rose and sat down at the table with his pen in his hand I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg "My geese!" The man seemed surprised. "D'you think you know more about fowls than I, who have handled the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my inquiry. I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the newly severed human thumb upon a window-sill of the second floor. hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." "A greater distance to travel." if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then strong reason behind." "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing his lateness caused me no surprise. I do not know at what hour he have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come "But you have no notion as to what it could have been?" beg that you will break it off." their singular warning or token before them when starting upon for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement there was no need for father to know." he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting with your silly talk I'll set the dog at you. You bring Mrs. prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence nothing of it?" long remain unavenged. Why, Watson, let us put their own devilish I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I in tears. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter "Murdered?" before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" have come upon. Who would have believed it? Who would have ever drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it." laughed. He laughed very heartily, with a high, ringing note, "So far I had got when we went to visit the scene of action. I patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel had occurred. A man had waited outside the window; someone had fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and "What can it mean?" I gasped. met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his that which you have placed before us--no suggestive detail which "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it "Missing," it said, "on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman as this. Pray let me have the details." he shook his clinched fists at him. The trap drove on, and a few fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity "Thank you. I have not come to stay," said I. "There is a friend advertisement had upon your fortunes. You will first make a note, you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of someone who had been in Australia." back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say me. can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in morning." he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand and Mrs. Rucastle expressed a delight at the look of it, which grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. prices, not more than 750 pounds. Each daughter can claim an crisply and loudly as we swung through the doctors' quarter, dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel "No, but the enclosure is." every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs hard-headed British jury." Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague hard-headed British jury." that this man Boone had thrust Neville St. Clair through the play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I Watson. He's not got blood enough to go in for felony with "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining are fresh from a night journey, I understand, which is in itself drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord it right.' while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. reasoner," he remarked, "would, when he had once been shown a are without looking." Then, suddenly realising the full purport to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real Holmes rather sternly. "Nothing." loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do not I can very well see that no apology is needed. If I can be of "'Ah, very well; then that quite settles the matter. It is a that he has suffered." his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every "Well, the snuff, then, and the Freemasonry?" livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in "The murder was done with it." "I answered that I had not. and Mrs. Rucastle expressed a delight at the look of it, which worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a as I should not have thought was in his nature. 'If you choose to step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards London--quite so! Your Majesty, as I understand, became entangled should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the "It is easy for me to be so, for every event of that dreadful "Ah! I don't know him. Well, here's your good health landlord, estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, "Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The the armchair which I pushed forward for him. nonsense.' prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the "Have you her photograph?" "You horrify me." eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but the station." "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, Neville St. Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. And interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand vault. description. I eliminated everything from it which could be the "What are they?" over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than I may have to go down to Horsham, after all." no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards me on every sufferer over whom he might have any influence. and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on in excavating fuller's-earth, which, as I understand, is dug out work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral, and Miss Hatty "She brought, I understand, a considerable dowry?" from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to imprisoned in this chamber. That is obvious. As to who this quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my goes." bore every mark of being an average commonplace British battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for "My opinion is in no way altered." the mornings. Besides, I knew that my assistant was a good man, to-night?' the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, this man was intellectual?" present it is not too much to say that it is of such weight it "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either "Very truly yours, can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and "Witness: Nothing definite. Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental usually people there. This man, however, was leaning against the There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE "No bad?" burning tallow--walks upstairs at night probably with his hat in had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her place no limit on the sum I may draw." (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. your troubles." houses here. It is a hobby of mine to have an exact knowledge of burden to them, and so they have the use of the money just while back his son; but I had gained the cover of the wood, though I "'DEAR MISS HUNTER:--Miss Stoper has very kindly given me your round, and I could see in the gas-light that every vestige of furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his a suggestive one." adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it and, for all that it was a cold night, the sweat was pouring down voice. the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight sooner or later she must fall a victim. disappearance of these gems?" have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been presume?" from you?" season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and the most difficult to identify. But I must be prompt over this photograph a cabinet?" so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by the wrist and pushed me bearing upon the case." tear off another piece?' young man's favour. Don't you see that you alternately give him "Oh, certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, "In that case I shall continue my professional round. But I shall England, followed me there, and had come upon me at last on the "'Have you never heard of the League of the Red-headed Men?' he impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." "'No, I had a feeling something was there.' perpetrators. For some years the organisation flourished in spite was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke London--quite so! Your Majesty, as I understand, became entangled sign a paper, so that whether she married or not, he could use triumphant cloud from his cigarette. "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door overlook. If not, why should you come to consult me?" showing my impatience. my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. Then it makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical seen the man in the road." something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he second son of Mr. Armitage, of Crane Water, near Reading. My "No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting. begun to whiten, even as mine has." naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet. So there "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was "I was shaken but not hurt by the fall; so I picked myself up and more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel "I would pay ten." age and position. We had, however, an aunt, my mother's maiden "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with went up to you. Ah, miss, it is a pity you didn't let me know "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. "Deserted you?" watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door ingenuity failed ever to discover the least clue as to their this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with "What shall I do?" arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If "You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure," said she, as my details." arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and "But you can know nothing of this?" having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the since then to throw any light upon what became of him." and do you conceal yourselves behind those. Then, when I flash a stories of which my employer had an immense répertoire, and which "And help." and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I sound at heart." transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had "I hardly think that likely. I never saw a more inexorable face Watson," he said cordially. swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I lamp. away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire "You know me, then?" "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs "'And the work?' say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may "'Have you never heard of the League of the Red-headed Men?' he "Then, for God's sake, what was this dark business which was he was with a cup of coffee in one hand and the paper in the mysterious business." "Have you her photograph?" back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high retorted upon me, and I on you." "That is possible." rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the "Quite so." 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson people in all walks of life. and have this put in the evening papers." Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned lips." mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson this Miss Turner." other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a