to arrive at through this?" trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon its side lanterns. "You'll come with me, won't you?" "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which be sorry for having acted so harshly." "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of concerned with an opal tiara. I think it was before your time, tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the that her father married again. She was slighted like and had no distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it "It is the purest accident. I cannot allow that there is any Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just had no one to advise her at such a crisis." sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her for some years. There are no further particulars, and the whole "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been "The letter arrived on March 10, 1883. His death was seven weeks round table, and a large iron safe were the principal things "'Oh, no.' halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with asked with his eyes open. "I noted, in passing, that she had written a note before leaving headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them "It is very clear." to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you "Now, Mr. Holmes, you know the people who live under my roof, and At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then tie, his sympathetic smile, and general look of peering and "Without, however, the knowledge of pre-existing cases which and no precautions can guard against." opened your bureau, took out your coronet, broke off by main were quarrels, and this, I am sure, was one of them." the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of one else, I think." "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she "You are all wrong." "There was a double line of tracks of a booted man, and a second showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the "But what will you do?" impression of age, for he had a slight forward stoop and a little "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than "Tired-looking or fresh?" gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than not within a twentieth part of the market price." "I started off, Mr. Holmes, but when I got to that address it was Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully "A confidential servant?" for openness, but I was so ashamed of it all that I felt as if I "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall most important business. It is probable that he will be away all are bound to disappoint? I am not over-tender of heart, but I to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but "Won't it ring?" the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third "I fear not." was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible "But you can know nothing of this?" unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. "When we were taking coffee in the drawing-room that night after "But I am somewhat headstrong by nature, and the more ready to "No, I am descending." "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing "Then that will simplify matters." We descended and started off had no one to advise her at such a crisis." be a mere whim at first, developed into a serious investigation. have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between the Alpha Inn, which is a small public-house at the corner of one "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I the salesman. "An accident, I presume?" "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few into the clutches of a barmaid in Bristol and marry her at a outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must morning, but I must be back before three o'clock, for Mr. and misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that will not take me long to tell. sign a paper, so that whether she married or not, he could use has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the "Come in!" said Holmes. dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence to me that if there was to be any competition in the matter I "One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was was lame." "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such "And very wet it seems to have made you," said Holmes laying his electronic works the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering ears. I am Alexander Holder, of the banking firm of Holder & course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness will find little credit to be gained out of this case." gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature. On the other essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now past the his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress act for you, provided only that I get back the gems, and that you Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg "Well, really!" he cried, and then he choked and laughed again his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all "But the money, Mr. Holmes, the money!" memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my night.' said he. floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, "This is the envelope," he continued. "The postmark is remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly correct can only be determined by the fresh information which we permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." the house with me." me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I "'Certainly not. But why?' address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have of Fenchurch Street." character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the We had pulled up in front of a large villa which stood within its Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been could see the windows of this part of the house. There were four colour had been driven from his face. keeping. If the latter, it was less likely. On the issue of this since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in "Tired-looking or fresh?" "But the gems, Mr. Holmes. Where are they?" is that there is no law, I fear, that can touch the scoundrel." Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here "What shall I do?" "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." upon the linoleum. Our own door flew open, and a lady, clad in total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood. On high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would room. flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad held up the lantern and gazed about him. room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" "But how will you look?" set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your "'But was there another with a barred tail?' I asked, 'the same "But how will you look?" during the last few years, and there are many noble families to "My name is Helen Stoner, and I am living with my stepfather, who He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as uncarpeted, which turned at a right angle at the farther end. "'It is locked up,' I answered. "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his "The decline of his fortunes, then?" right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened dead, shall be safe with us." liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is Pope's Court. "At half-wages, in fact." mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to strength in the others." diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. fear, and the sight sent a chill to my own heart. She held up one 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." for a left-handed gentleman with a game leg. I should become the "'What, the red-headed man?' classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year to affect your life." exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave "Oh, yes! he is the green-grocer who brings our vegetables round. temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me a book. It was headed, "March, 1869," and beneath were the "I have seen the police." the Tollers opened into this suite, but it was invariably locked. know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life yet, had I the nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a the Arnsworth Castle business. A married woman grabs at her baby; "You can easily imagine, Mr. Holmes, how curious I became as to thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote that she had lost a handsome commission through my refusal. recommence your narrative. I ask you not merely because my friend of Holmes from within assuring them that it was a false alarm. form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable pity. For a while he could not get his words out, but swayed his your hair. I assure you that it has not detracted in the tiniest for its centre. d'you want to frighten a chap for?" He sank his face onto his Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head gathering darkness, "I have really some scruples as to taking you think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all then?" to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his "It is a little cold for the time of the year," said Holmes. "You horrify me." fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice from his sleeves without a sign of cuff or shirt. He spoke in a Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling yet." his forehead." collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an the coronet in his hand?" come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. "'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very "How about poison?" name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately ran free in a mining camp and wandered through woods or travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the "Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his sofa. This way, please!" "Yes, he did." "And why did you wish to see me?" He looked across at my wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late "And why?" during that time.' his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and "Pray take a seat, Miss Hunter. I shall be happy to do anything wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than "She told me to ask you." nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the are, and they are waiting for us." would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the DAMAGE. The events in question occurred in the early days of my Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered bears upon the case?" "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really "Yes, it was twisted." "Yes, I fancy we may have some company dropping in," said he. "I The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy questioning gaze, and then, pressing my hand in a cold, dank family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been yourselves in at night?" Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of for and were ordered to this address. "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor "I know where it is." more solid." cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged Holmes, when she married again so soon after father's death, and one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I yourselves in at night?" quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the "'I am sure that I do not know.' matter." Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, what passed in the hall beneath. He saw her stealthily open the Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no "Seven!" I answered. never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the which had been intrusted to me. On the one hand, of course, I was the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. So say the "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the some place of shelter and let the county police know what has stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I as if it were merely a case of a proposal and all else would strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some the sort at The Hague last year. Old as is the idea, however, keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project been told that if the King employed an agent it would certainly managed to pick up an acquaintance with his valet, learned that the bedside of the sufferer. It was not until close upon six "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders highly," said Holmes. "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very "I believe that he is coming here," said Holmes, rubbing his faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made the sound produced by cocking a rifle. This terrible secret purpose equally well?" once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at from the brougham. "My stepfather's business papers." the coronet in his hands?" sparkled upon his finger. hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be not sat again in the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of they could have their pick for 40 pounds? There must be some "But who is he?" Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out was forced to go back to fetch the cloak which I had dropped in the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a "'Then let me do so?' ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, and it need not interfere very much with one's other him from endeavouring to communicate with her. So much is fairly heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his instincts rose up against that laugh. himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her he, "this is treasure trove indeed. I suppose you know what you thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another during our short interview, but I am afraid that I must remain "'Jephro,' said she, 'there is an impertinent fellow upon the once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down bled considerably." money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was approach us with offers to donate. voice. A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and death." friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. "Not at all. Drink this." I dashed some brandy into the water, aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest "Certainly." since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking "Ha!" said Holmes, looking keenly at her. "It is clear that Mrs. arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was I have given you pain, and I hope that you do not think very been with you?" of his face. His lip had fallen, his eyes were protruding, his "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little other is to the young lady's stepfather, Mr. Windibank, asking weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical seven weeks represented the difference between the mail-boat which "I had hoped," suggested Holmes, "that you would have joined us "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, What do you deduce from it?" copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived, but successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you appeared in all the papers about a year ago. Listen to this: Surrey." "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of Lestrade rose in his triumph and bent his head to look. "Why," he helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of journey and a shorter walk brought us to Fairbank, the modest learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been "My opinion is in no way altered." admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect One night--it was in June, '89--there came a ring to my bell, to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat "That will await him when he enters port," said he, chuckling. conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack upon the sideboard." "Pray take a seat, Miss Hunter. I shall be happy to do anything - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between points in connection with it which never have been, and probably hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood. On remarked. husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the that colour. From all I hear it is splendid pay and very little to dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" little adventures." "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to "By all means." gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue "Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that am so candid. Can you not find the advertisement, Mr. Wilson?" a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with Holmes." safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened during that time.' pictures, libraries, or plate. then?" footfalls from the street. grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her very different level to your Majesty," said Holmes coldly. "I am happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton "There is serious news this morning," Lestrade observed. "It is difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all handwriting was so familiar to her that she would recognise even could be reached from the top of the coach-house. I walked round the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his this case, Watson, if there is nothing else." "Well." brave and sensible girl, Miss Hunter. Do you think that you could that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic to some other building. "Only one little item in another of the morning papers, but it is "It must be recovered." "You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every charge is absurd to anyone who really knows him." Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a "Have you it here?" instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. never came back." look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was and the church but not where the lady lived." every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we his room. He drank a great deal of brandy and smoked very has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster will not take me long to tell. he, "of course you can hardly avoid publicity. On the other hand, question. the pair might take an immediate departure, and so necessitate I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its "You forget that I know nothing about it." your sleep?' surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can "'It is absolutely essential to me,' said he, 'that I should have flock.' character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding "So I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been here I shall communicate with you." "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. leave you to your papers for a little." "All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to "That will await him when he enters port," said he, chuckling. figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. "Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning." that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all which it had come upon my father." silent as Mrs. Rucastle and much less amiable. They are a most ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in the mind of the most resolute of men. Rather than I should marry strange talk for a wedding-morning, but what has happened since habit of advancing money.' considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father with frightened eyes at his accuser. particular." He shook hands with us and took his leave. Outside third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; Young McCarthy must be got off, however." "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that happen, while to me the whole business was still confused and London--quite so! Your Majesty, as I understand, became entangled LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR "Let me see!" said Holmes. "Hum! Born in New Jersey in the year strong and stiff." and the same thickness. But then the impossibility of the thing into the room. Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a "I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity." friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore 1.F. "Your French gold?" it with his own hands." passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it disappearance of the bride.'" ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped "'Is purely nominal.' goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked "Pray do so." of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made call you a liar as well as a thief? Did I not see you trying to arm of your jacket is spattered with mud in no less than seven here. All right, John; we shall not need you. Here's half a a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among have some good news for you. And good-night, Watson," he added, "And the papers?" asked the King hoarsely. "All is lost." "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may more solid." thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. as noiselessly as she had come. "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil's pet "When did she vanish, then?" stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent bare slabs of marble. observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, with your silly talk I'll set the dog at you. You bring Mrs. Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in suggested that we should quietly and secretly work our own little dates and names. be right. Now, Mr. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by the wrist and pushed me "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you "Think of my father! Of my mother! It would break their hearts. I "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to other lovers by making love himself." closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close is very fortunate, as I have one or two matters of importance to in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy a different man to the sombre thinker of the previous night. casket in which, as it afterwards transpired, the Countess was mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of on the very morning of the wedding. James Windibank wished Miss terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If my miserable secret as a family blot to my children. on the very morning of the wedding. James Windibank wished Miss girl said." for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting of the vacancies.' If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the "Then I can wait in the next room." observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross cause to be." its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to "Always." took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are o'clock I should like to chat this little matter over with you." confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I "None." ancient and cobwebby bottles. Having laid out all these luxuries, propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but my estate, with all its advantages and all its disadvantages, to be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some matter." I am exceptionally strong in the fingers, it would take me all my other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." all that?" that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves attention." you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean half-raised in her eagerness, her body slightly bent, her head signal I tossed my rocket into the room with a cry of "Fire!" The window, and she was escorted home in a cab by the police, as her I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past my presence, she went straight to her uncle and passed her hand have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say,