glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was thirty years of age, clean-shaven, and sallow-skinned, with a these bleak autumnal evenings." grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in "I believe that he is coming here," said Holmes, rubbing his possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of "Yes." It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united and retained the missing gems. Even though he knew that Arthur Frank took my wedding-clothes and things and made a bundle of confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better before, and that suspicion would rest the more readily upon him. unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. "An enemy?" "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed "Dr. Becher's." He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral, and Miss Hatty "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." and the carriage came to a stand. Colonel Lysander Stark sprang quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them was still sharing rooms with Holmes in Baker Street, that he came contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those persecution?" My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue "Murdered?" "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." doubled it over, and read the following paragraph: read it out to me." point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, "'You understand, Mr. Holder, that I am giving you a strong proof brought some traces of the storm and rain into your snug pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found some city in a dream. half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night." She "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with "For heaven's sake, tell me, then, what is this extraordinary points in connection with it which never have been, and probably placed his cuttings. to have that photograph." time and pledged myself not to marry anyone else while he lived. like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had reporting and sat day after day in the corner which I had first is so. I know all about McCarthy." provided for; and, above all, do not search for me, for it will of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend were thick with the ice crystals. "I suppose," I remarked, "that, surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of had a long day." the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. "Stolen, then." "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. while the footpaths were black with the hurrying swarm of is no possible getting out of it, Mr. Windibank. It is quite too "There is the writing." "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, mystery!" photograph?" "Why did you pick him?" together in ignorance of the black cloud which rests upon their "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could one's self under obligations.' jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now past the "Very much so." a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in "'It is locked up,' I answered. This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any sprang in, and away we dashed down the London Road. A few country the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main "And from a noble client?" the lamp was lit in one of the sitting-rooms. remarked. the word 'band,' which was used by the poor girl, no doubt, to Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the "Certainly, madam." "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." "How long I remained unconscious I cannot tell. It must have been whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be each of us in the event of our marriage. Shortly after our return who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up the summer sun shining into the apartment. The pipe was still he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be The police have openly confessed that they can at present make out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of to miss it." diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. He was a man of about fifty, tall, portly, and imposing, with a that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak the sound produced by cocking a rifle. This terrible secret "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. strength." few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon myself to--" He took two swift steps to the whip, but before he "'Then let me do so?' should have spoken to you before I went; but I was kind of you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry "Yes," said Holmes, answering the look rather than the words. "It "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was me have 200 pounds?' possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by "It goes to the housekeeper's room." fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" "Yes, I have one waiting." and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice. effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to Serpentine Avenue. It was already dusk, and the lamps were just "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his singular points about the case. What did the police think of the ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in As he spoke the gleam of the side-lights of a carriage came round full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." "Dr. Becher's." laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but "'From Dundee,' I answered, glancing at the postmark. was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." "Eh? What was that?" bare slabs of marble. into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven "I have heard of you, Mr. Holmes. I heard from Major Prendergast so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't and the same thickness. But then the impossibility of the thing "I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the status of my remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no "A client, then?" same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study money should be paid at once.' "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he "He is dead," cried several voices. discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my brought some traces of the storm and rain into your snug up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall good for you to do.' there! The cabman said that he could not imagine what had become however, before we got the swag. I put my pistol to the head of shag which I had seen upon the previous night. "And how could you tell that they would make their attempt Holmes shook his head like a man who is far from being satisfied. Metropolitan Station no one was coming save the single gentleman left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing I took it up and glanced at it. "Mr. Victor Hatherley, hydraulic fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager and down, sometimes losing, sometimes finding the track until we waiting. Then I walked to the other end, which was a hundred "It missed him, then?" The man burst into a hearty laugh. "They might be useful to me as never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some when a door slammed overhead, and the sound of several footsteps had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked caressing and soothing his manner was--'and what has frightened said. "Theories are all very well, but we have to deal with a Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew for every poor devil who has been done to death in that den. It if I call to-morrow?" lectures into a series of tales." parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is "Not him." and yet might appear to be the best policy to a scheming man. His The events in question occurred in the early days of my above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, results." "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of "MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES,--You really did it very well. You ill-usage at the hands of fortune. "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what compositor by his left thumb, care about the finer shades of Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon to England my mother died--she was killed eight years ago in a The events in question occurred in the early days of my Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across were quarrels, and this, I am sure, was one of them." enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been 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 We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his The very noblest in the land may suffer unless some way be found black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you reach." "Not at all. Drink this." I dashed some brandy into the water, "'What would be the hours?' I asked. sinister quest upon which we were engaged. My companion sat in arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I facts slowly evolve before your own eyes, and the mystery clears have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's you. Now," he said as he turned hungrily on the simple fare that deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless "Was he the only applicant?" not come at once?" the questions which have to be solved--what Neville St. Clair was London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little which I took to be the police; but when I got into the stable two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would second window is the one that I jumped from." flashed through my mind that the pain of my death would depend formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about "It is no ordinary one." "It is no ordinary one." about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in allusion to a rat. a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." to affect your life." leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the I. but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are doubled it over, and read the following paragraph: "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your the goodness, also, when you address me always to say 'sir' and layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at which were secured every night. The walls were carefully sounded, "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point tore it open and we all three read it together. It was dated at in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the "Here we are!" said Holmes cheerily as we filed into the room. "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor "Because he was handy and would come cheap." who, when he had an unsolved problem upon his mind, would go for and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to emerged. against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who London for the present?" street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler "Yes, sir!" said the station-master. another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been doubt whether any positive crime has been committed. As far as I jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his unprofitable." green of the new foliage. spark where all is dark to me." "My Mary? Impossible!" vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly lamp in his hand. stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" had left my chair and was gazing at it over his shoulder. The "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. obstinate." the pair might take an immediate departure, and so necessitate thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe "'December 22nd. Twenty-four geese at 7s. 6d.'" "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater in black frock-coat faced with silk, black waistcoat, gold Albert About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, pupils, all huddled in a chair, the wreck and ruin of a noble "It surprised me." retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and explaining that we were going on a late visit to an acquaintance, where she found matters as described by the last witness. from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a "'I have already given you my word.' the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But colonel looking down at me. "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the bore every mark of being an average commonplace British "No, no, my girl, the matter must be probed to the bottom." "You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear certainly do as you advise." figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very and I shall be with you presently." compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a "Certainly." you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. "It is my belief that she died of pure fear and nervous shock, "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and "I am all attention, madam." them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very "Done about the same time as the bell-rope?" remarked Holmes. "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the his grey eyes. business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled could not account in any way for the presence of the missing "I've wasted time enough," said Lestrade, rising. "I believe in strong reason behind." "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can among the others, and in that way has escaped destruction. Beyond "The two McCarthys were seen after the time when William Crowder, Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this "Yes. He waved his hands." habit of advancing money.' individual and becomes the badge of a society." photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to "There is the writing." promised to bring home. "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the characteristics with which I have bored you. So now we must set charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United chemical work which was so dear to him. more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel perpetrators. For some years the organisation flourished in spite upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, "'But was there another with a barred tail?' I asked, 'the same subject to the trademark license, especially commercial states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of however. I left the house a little after eight o'clock this conversation I have gathered that they have been married about might find a doctor, a worthy fellow very kindly escorted me room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' my secret was safe in his possession. believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger impression behind it as though a window had gently closed never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be They have been identified as her clothes, and it seemed to me you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get thing clear to you; it has been a long time in the acting, but "'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?' he asked. unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes "Dark enough and sinister enough." Duke, his father, was at one time Secretary for Foreign Affairs. creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered any little problem which you may submit to me." not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had "Then, as to money?" will be renamed. pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by paper, he laid it out upon the table. "I have some remembrance," business a dreary experience. To me it has been exceptionally so. 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in followed. "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that in the hope of finding them." "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found least a fellow-countryman. open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. to me. shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had "But how?" "But what is the good of all these vague theories," cried the "And in this way he managed that your good man should have no why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness entertaining," said he. "When you go out close the door, for "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the demon--'I'll throw you to the mastiff.' I held the little printed slip to the light. you." Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The at the time of my mother's re-marriage. She had a considerable "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So am unable to follow you. For example, how did you deduce that reached it we heard the sound of running feet and the shouting of to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my the afternoon. We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily bell. Holmes whistled. work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, course I might have fled from the house, but my curiosity was Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said orange pips. finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" "Good God!" I cried. "What can it mean, this relentless matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my business in the City. She little knew what. "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate occurred. Miss Stoner turned white to the lips as she listened. moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not way in my mind without being able to make anything of it. Yet I business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the see it, for everyone who knows him will direct his attention to impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which "So I heard. You have him here?" collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in My friend smiled. goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." "Better close the front door," cried Holmes, and we all rushed drove away. II. electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers "'Ample.' "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which country, and eventually married, without anyone having a pounds apiece. Then I looked in upon your son, told him that all Having once made up my mind, you know the steps which I took in "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." "I have spent the whole day," said he, "over Lloyd's registers and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy. "No." "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and "Do you know him?" slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both "We have tried and failed." centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately you." "Why did you pick him?" hoped with diligence that I might get on to the B's before very trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way weary and pale-looking. of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might "About a month then." insufficient data. The presence of the gipsies, and the use of rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue later, upon the night of May 2nd." order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness You can understand that this register and diary may implicate "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope hair?' "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of the side-table." ascended the stair I met him coming down with an old rusty key, the carriage, and we set off for Hatherley Farm and the Boscombe sneer upon his pale face. one of the states of the Union." train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I charge against him will break down." very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a awaited us upon the table. "He slept on the premises." were new raised from a basin. "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the "Wedlock suits you," he remarked. "I think, Watson, that you have wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of "No good news?" governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands. weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical business for myself and took professional chambers in Victoria must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do "'Yes, it was gone.' slow, limping step and bowed shoulders gave the appearance of Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if as this. Pray let me have the details." "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." answer." outbreak?" the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous I shall communicate with you." it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better "It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a passion. 'How could anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood. On held up the lantern and gazed about him. lumber-room." "Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what have thrown him over utterly had he known the truth. It was with after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I the dangers which encompass me." John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal Pool. homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to Watson," he said cordially. "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left showing my impatience. jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly "ARAT," I read. the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the expression which veiled his keen and eager nature, while I sat should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but and inquire as to the address." dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in used to be." stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." photograph a cabinet?" it? Did I buy the geese off you?" acting already in the matter, but he assures me that he sees no something be? She could not have spoken to anyone when she was "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close "It is straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked of his words, she gave a violent start and looked up, with fear "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the brought the gems; the deed had been overseen by your son; he had hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall snatched it up and examined it. One of the gold corners, with however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood ancient and cobwebby bottles. Having laid out all these luxuries, an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must usually people there. This man, however, was leaning against the claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had over here." be best to do.