little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would "for it made me angry to see the easy way in which Mr. change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the it were putty." very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and events occurred which I am now about to summarise. I had returned to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his never weary of advertising my virtues and of endeavouring to send a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that "The King of Scandinavia." Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." The summons was a brief and urgent one. "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account "Farewell, then," said the old man solemnly. "Your own deathbeds, time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat Gutenberg-tm License. morning." so kindly put your army revolver in your pocket." He waved his from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his wedding?" still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. in him." in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I you will be good enough to call to-morrow afternoon at three "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work rooms." "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance Of course I never doubted for a moment that my first duty was now would then never go into court at all." though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now street, with her eyes fixed full upon me. I gave a cry of room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' a few minutes he said that it would be all right. and have this put in the evening papers." "Yes, and a most remarkable bird it proved. I don't wonder that and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us "But we can't all be." "Stop it!" I cried; "pull yourself together!" and I poured out cup of tea. be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough "It must be recovered." the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It putting in the horse. present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of at my remark. which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small 'please.'" have not had my rubber." ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do quickly through a disagreeable task. TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE "I am afraid so. I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. morning." "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness. "Tired-looking or fresh?" surprised at his own arrest, or feigned indignation at it, I James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." congenial hunt. eyes had regained their fire, and there, sitting by the fire and heavily into it. chambers. have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting "Dirty?" page at http://pglaf.org brain must have something in it." it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at "Give me a pencil and that slip of paper. Now, then: 'Found at "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to "And your mother is alive?" his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was "There's a cold-blooded scoundrel!" said Holmes, laughing, as he nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, correct can only be determined by the fresh information which we introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and Lestrade of Scotland Yard." each of us in the event of our marriage. Shortly after our return "The vanishing of the lady." pursued the thief; had struggled with him; they had each tugged force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, plantation.' other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well." examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his occupation, but was interested in several companies and went into "There are none." laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. together in ignorance of the black cloud which rests upon their the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was was even redder than mine. He said a few words to each candidate uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, "No, no, he found it. Its owner is unknown. I beg that you will society." profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel this remarkable episode. Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money "Yes?" copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg fait accompli?" vault. money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question of them has the shutters up.' vault. "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the "This concluded the examination of the witness." quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money great beech, the largest tree in the neighbourhood. Holmes traced arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man accept anything under the three figures? Your salary with me, building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" the date of his supposed suicide." can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, "It's nothing of the kind." unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling possible for me to bring him out and associate him with this was feeling which was the fattest.' for openness, but I was so ashamed of it all that I felt as if I I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in of them has the shutters up.' showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few examine." "Then what are they? Who is this K. K. K., and why does he pursue chance young Openshaw has in the meantime is to do what I have absolutely follow my advice in every respect." "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice sleeper half turned, and then settled down once more into a deep green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an newspaper selections." business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, repulsive sneer to the face! A twitch brought away the tangled are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known "To the police?" "Well, there are some on the stall with the gas-flare." will confine my attentions to the excellent bird which I perceive all the clothes of Mr. Neville St. Clair, with the exception of much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled may have an influence upon European history." patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his pictures, libraries, or plate. case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are "There were none. I believe that it was an excuse to move me from cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And The Black Swan is an inn of repute in the High Street, at no we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I "Small, stout-built, very quick in his ways, no hair on his face, abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he your sleep?' his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as here or there, or amusing yourself in any manner indicated, that back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit in this note: for the market.' stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall in his power. my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say been with you?" once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the come. Hence those vows of fidelity exacted upon a Testament, and resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other was already answered. "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend make me his representative both with the servants and with the interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of shaken than I had ever seen him. every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both late!' of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen and shall probably return to London by the evening train." Road, to a salesman named Breckinridge, by him in turn to Mr. "It must be recovered." but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these was feeling which was the fattest.' we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the unprofitable." "Yes, it was twisted." confirm the strange rumours which have been so persistently form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable was quite secure, and did not give in the least to my kicks and demon--'I'll throw you to the mastiff.' Some three hours or so afterwards we were all in the train are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a "'What, the red-headed man?' As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you from the major, imploring me to come at once. My father had his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he "'I should certainly speak to the police,' I said. breakfast?" governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was the bank, she hurried across the road, and we heard the sharp brought the gems; the deed had been overseen by your son; he had first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been "Then he might have called to you?" "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how recognised in that den my life would not have been worth an and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four Square, and the ominous words with which he had parted from me. and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I official police." singular points about the case. What did the police think of the several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man true." tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a Serpentine Avenue. "It is true. And yet--Well! I wish she had been of my own and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and "'Yes, sir.' The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, "Your presence might be invaluable." about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in which had been presented to him, and he even broke into a given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was next day. "Good God! What a week she must have spent!" Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, what I may call a really hard day's work." tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." are, I think, all that we need." lectures into a series of tales." mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom was forced to go back to fetch the cloak which I had dropped in tassel actually lying upon the pillow. "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the also thoroughly examined, with the same result. The chimney is and saw scrawled in red ink upon the inner flap, just above the like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the showing my impatience. I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner to go into your room and bar your shutters?" "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, mind, ever again be happy under your roof, and I feel that I must good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place shutter open, but without success. There was no slit through How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that Eyford." authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a towards the blaze. few hundred pounds.' it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency his mother and all those great people. I just made up my mind to my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out The man burst into a hearty laugh. "They might be useful to me as income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he that the play will be more exciting. For you, Mr. Merryweather, passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was definite end. contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the footmen declared that he had seen a lady leave the house thus Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" reputation among women. It must have been he who wore those boots screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan "Will you bet, then?" door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich train. There would be one to Reading in less than an hour. The on in his house." to some other building. "No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough. Suppose lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. no doubt that the gang of roughs who assaulted me had carried off story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! Holmes rose and sat down at the table with his pen in his hand of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely following enigmatical notices: safe, for the lad could not say a word without compromising his 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern companion rose to greet her, "but I have had a very strange farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been there when the Rucastles went away." union?" give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for breakfast and whispered something to her husband. clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this "Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my "'Why, what did you think?' I asked. favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as dream of going, Watson, for I very much prefer having a witness, particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I see no less than five, I think that there can be little doubt corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some there has been an enclosure here!" "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door Windigate, of the Alpha, and by him to his club, of which Mr. locked." see a sister of mine apply for." a few minutes to accompany my friend down to the sitting-room. A conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring some paternal advice and to point out to them that it would be with a provision that a certain annual sum should be allowed to "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I borne a stain. Private affliction also is the lot of every man; The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the "My private note-paper." "Holmes!" I whispered, "what on earth are you doing in this den?" preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it and he has blasted my life. I'll tell you first how I came to be squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary her hands with a despairing gesture, and vanished as suddenly and fait accompli?" its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and "Oh, he has his faults, too," said Mr. Wilson. "Never was such a fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager. As I passed "Ah! that is suggestive. Now, on the other side of this narrow "'Ample.' favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as "There is some building going on there," said Holmes; "that is up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all am so candid. Can you not find the advertisement, Mr. Wilson?" and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with "It is a swamp adder!" cried Holmes; "the deadliest snake in "I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the status of my when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, the road. He beckoned to me and then began walking into the Park. whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. "Entirely." "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this "Oh, no, not now. I shall have to tell my tale to the police; in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the even if they believe me, the clues which I can give them are so their singular warning or token before them when starting upon "Were they all fastened this morning?" Our client of the morning had hurried forward to meet us with a way in." wherever Sir George Burnwell is. It is equally certain, too, that in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and the Red-headed League." "Ah, but I was recommended to you." red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker I had never seen my friend's face so grim or his brow so dark as 'Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it." is," said he presently: yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address ten days I had the money and had paid the debt. door behind him. "It is quite certain that he knows nothing that our inquiry may but confirm his guilt; but, in any case, we "Will you go?" coronet," cried Mr. Holder. "Oh, my God! what a blind fool I have must compliment you." "Have they thought of looking outside the house?" of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since "'No, I cannot!' I answered sharply. 'I have been far too because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, "What CAN be the matter, then? Can you suggest no explanation?" where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of the warnings." crowded, even on such a night, for their purpose. Well, Watson, she got brain-fever, and for six weeks was at death's door. Then ear. From under this great panoply she peeped up in a nervous, aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips thought of my fifty-guinea fee, of my wearisome journey, and of "It is half-past ten now." ears. I am Alexander Holder, of the banking firm of Holder & "No bad?" I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this see, but no superscription except Leadenhall Street, which is "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in d'you want to frighten a chap for?" He sank his face onto his have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him determined, therefore, that for the next few days I would always grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the interested on glancing down to observe that, though the boots go to bed again, however, so I dressed, and as soon as it was hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. nothing save the occasional bright blur of a passing light. Now of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" she to prove their authenticity?" "Your sister asked for it, I suppose?" out of this horrible affair." railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his you, my dear young lady?' "Which were very well justified," observed Holmes. "And now it is "Oh, he has his faults, too," said Mr. Wilson. "Never was such a "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they your room." amused." and looked back. down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary would have been she, and that his marriage might have changed his that threaten you." both be extremely obliged.' homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to England, followed me there, and had come upon me at last on the Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much hours every day. It was a curious way of managing it, but, you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the tried to look out of the windows to see something of where we test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to strange talk for a wedding-morning, but what has happened since "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, an introduction to him?" stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor "I fished about with a rake. I thought there might be some weapon dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or children over to America with him, so that I found myself without inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invariable right! Sit down and let us talk it over." to me that if there was to be any competition in the matter I stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then who may be more successful." He opened the door and ushered in a the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client relation between them, and what the object of his repeated and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice. The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were like you to wear such a dress indoors in the morning. You need with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small "I will do it." which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature. On the other receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy "Precisely." she slowly sank and died without having recovered her drunken sallies from which he never came back. We found him, when dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to "An accident, I presume?" ventilator." absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project showing my impatience. of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness--such an absolute father's young wife. to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were "The best possible." "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy shared with all the readers of the daily press, I knew little of helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no to a light-house. hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night. Were take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No, Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before age and position. We had, however, an aunt, my mother's maiden "In which, sir?" unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the beyond words. four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce wager. Well, Watson, we are, I fancy, nearing the end of our "But she could not love him." "'What then?' I asked. "'Dear me!' he said gravely, 'that is very serious indeed! I am sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose." idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time "'Surely it would be better to take no notice.' Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him I am not easy in my mind about them." that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the the word 'band,' which was used by the poor girl, no doubt, to has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. seven weeks represented the difference between the mail-boat which its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." his lateness caused me no surprise. I do not know at what hour he way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the planted halfway down the column. "Here it is. This is what began took a step backward, slammed the little door, and turned the key peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more her father thought it time to put a stop on it. He wanted her to the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr. your co-operation." "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier not within a twentieth part of the market price." grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated lane and, by rare good-fortune, met in Fresno Street a number of of them has the shutters up.' which he had half risen. "I really wouldn't miss your case for on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower part of his face, extending down past the cheekbones, a black Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free death." "And what do you think of it all, Watson?" asked Sherlock Holmes, well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just card-case is a note. And here is the very note." He slapped it "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William "But I am all in the dark." the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the took a step backward, slammed the little door, and turned the key arm of your jacket is spattered with mud in no less than seven habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for are fresh from a night journey, I understand, which is in itself