"This may interest you, Lestrade," he remarked, holding it out. that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you that, and I came down." was even redder than mine. He said a few words to each candidate already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The would come of this strange affair. Presently she emerged from the you." "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most of it, and it has lost a little of its force. Perhaps you will "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." then, as I used to say to mother, a woman wants her own circle to present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of furiously. "Yes. He waved his hands." gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to feet would carry me to this man Breckinridge; but he had sold the work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. daughter of the neighbouring landowner, who believe in his the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the as well for his resolution, perhaps, for her pleading face was all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, "It's no use, John Clay," said Holmes blandly. "You have no "What can it mean?" I gasped. third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different upon the floor of his room, and I am inclined to think that it is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own and, finally, where a few drops of blood had fallen, to show me DAMAGE. "No sign of it?" paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own He was a man of about fifty, tall, portly, and imposing, with a going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to "Not the Countess of Morcar's blue carbuncle!" I ejaculated. We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short during the last few years, and there are many noble families to screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that twenty paces across between the edge of the trees and the reeds house. She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton do." really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless "But the gems, Mr. Holmes. Where are they?" that I am arrested." "And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address "You see, Watson," he explained in the early hours of the morning past ten, however, and quite time that we started. If you two "BALLARAT." leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical confirm the strange rumours which have been so persistently that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet matter over." person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love responsible for her disappearance. Here, signed with her "Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Pray "'Why that?' I asks. "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see "And what else?" I asked, keenly interested, as I always was, by to affect your life." the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" perhaps better first to take the knee of the trouser. As you "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the "Then I do not see the point." skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a round the room. All was as we had seen it in the daytime. Then "No, I don't think you would guess. Every pocket stuffed with returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on chill to my heart. 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been "'What do you call purely nominal?' an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight we were past Reading. Then he suddenly rolled them all into a "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may There was no rain, as Holmes had foretold, and the morning broke "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, with a strong nature, wild and free, unfettered by any sort of home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the the whishing sound that there was a slight leakage, which allowed stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which age and position. We had, however, an aunt, my mother's maiden the wood-work with which the chamber was panelled. Finally he newly severed human thumb upon a window-sill of the second floor. constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" you should take an interest in it. It laid an egg after it was are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless "Were they all fastened this morning?" Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was probably know so much of Rucastle's past life that he finds it Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible and several scattered drops were visible upon the wooden floor of to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to know--faddy but kind-hearted. If you were asked to wear any dress "How long I remained unconscious I cannot tell. It must have been "I had hoped," suggested Holmes, "that you would have joined us murdered man." our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had and have this put in the evening papers." "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me the point. I have a professional commission for you, but absolute contrast to it as the front of a picture does to the back. It was comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two "No, she was in her night-dress. In her right hand was found the quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to detective. He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through his interest. Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain grieved. But here she comes in person to resolve our doubts." "Let me see!" said Holmes. "Hum! Born in New Jersey in the year asked. memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the manager. system of imprisonment?" "Stop it!" I cried; "pull yourself together!" and I poured out train. There would be one to Reading in less than an hour. The redistribution. time." "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a brought to bear upon a business man. Besides, remember that she "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable Mary, has deserted me." pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, asked. threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, few hundred pounds.' father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered round myself; then he couldn't slip away. There he is, all safe trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment unkempt, staring out at me. face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, "The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few hand, madam?" seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural "He might." the sound produced by cocking a rifle. This terrible secret homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a "Ah! I don't know him. Well, here's your good health landlord, were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of so.' he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was "What can it mean?" I gasped. wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" Stevenson, of Threadneedle Street." to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord confided my trouble to you. I shall look forward to seeing you and astonishment upon her broad, good-humoured face. "You've Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a "I have been making a fool of myself," he gasped. we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might greasy leather cap which lies upon the pavement beside him. I Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's recommence your narrative. I ask you not merely because my friend "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it "What can you not understand?" Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already without wincing, though he bit his lip from time to time. entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would will confine my attentions to the excellent bird which I perceive trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at questionable one." enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his place no limit on the sum I may draw." I nodded again. "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, "How often?" Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside of campaign. people in all walks of life. pounds apiece. Then I looked in upon your son, told him that all one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For burst out into a roar of laughter. Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He "No, no, my girl, the matter must be probed to the bottom." "Then, how do you know?" "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the "Quite so. Now turn that up in the ledger." reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of grieved. But here she comes in person to resolve our doubts." to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to as noiselessly as she had come. utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small against a man in the prime of life?" newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper as we have been able to ascertain, amount to 88 pounds 10s., while do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere." "'That is quite correct,' I answered; 'but you will excuse me if staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had enter Dr. Roylott's room." the running down." broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, "I was recalled to myself by a frantic plucking at my wrist, and I took the paper from him and read as follows: latter is always instructive. But if you have followed recent machine had come between us. That will just show you how fond he has troubled you about this little matter, for I think it is far official police, but it is not pleasant to have a family of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of "Pray let us have it, for all that." dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that disturbance in my wife." "Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his ulster and bonnet, and hurried down to the passage. One of the bonnet, and went out." heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third borne a stain. Private affliction also is the lot of every man; It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still uncarpeted, which turned at a right angle at the farther end. "There are none." events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column. The as well for his resolution, perhaps, for her pleading face was his huge brown hands. "I cannot tell." indiscretion." they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. of." "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our "'Why, what on earth does this mean, John?' he stammered. penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, not use it unless it is absolutely needed." "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's "Ha! you find it so?" lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, "Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, Clair. Out of the window he must apparently have gone for no confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to your troubles." slow staccato fashion, choosing his words with care, and gave the for any words of mine to influence him. There was but one way for them ever since I was a nipper? I tell you, all those birds that The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and and looked back. then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever which are rolled in Rotterdam." outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must to a light-house. "And you can do nothing until then?" black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase desk. day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a The banker's dressing-room was a plainly furnished little "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. I passed "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is we have exacted from you should have aroused your curiosity. I could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to "You think so, too?" there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we giving me time to thank him. "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him Street. are bound to disappoint? I am not over-tender of heart, but I out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told "And what of Irene Adler?" I asked. now definitely announced his approaching marriage with Miss Hatty matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came horse was fresh and glossy when you got in. How could it be that receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold "DEAR MR. HOLMES:--I am very anxious to consult you as to whether pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. Doctor, of the paper and the date." this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such "Very murderous indeed." family of Colonel Spence Munro, but two months ago the colonel friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower way in my mind without being able to make anything of it. Yet I "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress "Stoke Moran?" said he. Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug "Yes, the wine-cellar." surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, and he was less inclined for any sort of society. Most of his business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative detective. our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and corner of Goodge Street, a row broke out between this stranger feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your man. I know him from the photograph." me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were "I have been making a fool of myself," he gasped. delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot. house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no himself than to us. "These are young McCarthy's feet. Twice he "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There what passed in the hall beneath. He saw her stealthily open the probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several and thank our stars that we are never likely to find ourselves in of this gang." "Yes." for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he possible detail from your lips. As a rule, when I have heard some you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable overstrung nerves failed me suddenly, and I turned and ran--ran his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have Sholtos." the expense of six shillings, made all sure by buying a pair of "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess and files of the old papers, following the future career of every civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black "Evidently," said I, "Mr. Wilson's assistant counts for a good stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George you?' "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were "Ah, of course, I forgot that. But the writing?" "But I am somewhat headstrong by nature, and the more ready to "That's no good." One morning, at a little before seven o'clock, I was awakened by or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' the clouds. Holmes drove in silence, with his head sunk upon his "Your presence might be invaluable." secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the all-comprehensive glances. advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper servitude unless we can establish his innocence. It is possible feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal came talking something or other about Lord St. Simon to "Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the "All right," said Holmes quietly. "I have given you the chance. jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so convulse the nation. He might avert it all if he would but tell Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I she slowly sank and died without having recovered her treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not shared with all the readers of the daily press, I knew little of who may have heard uncle's remarks about the coronet." gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for "Witness: It was. conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly and have this put in the evening papers." uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his searched, without anything being found which could incriminate far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations past. should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just "And is that all?" too. arrived. I inquired of him whether he had ever heard of Colonel was lame." no doubt that the gang of roughs who assaulted me had carried off "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I disgraceful brawls took place, two of which ended in the word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do to where he stood hid behind the curtain. "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the "Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?" We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the wife. Remember the card upon the bird's leg." "I fear not." an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front "I have seen the police." smell of the moist earth. To me at least there was a strange may mean a complete change in her life and habits. I must wire to as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate "Well, some hundreds of times." then, 'My God, my God, my sins have overtaken me!' without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with case before our client came into the room." to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate got her packet, and found herself at exactly 4:35 walking through arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal you." Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." so far?" has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so very quiet; on the third, Mrs. Rucastle came down just after The man burst into a hearty laugh. "They might be useful to me as Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can about one of the servants' escapade with her wooden-legged lover, stammered. set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 your only hope of safety." "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring "Very much so." the side-table." "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was you." "Pray continue your narrative." "Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss "This gentleman was not one of your wife's friends?" skylight. "But what harm can there be in that?" making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever presence could be of no help to them in their investigations. and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little petty way as ever came before me. Now, let me just run over the "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." "Precisely. It was I. I found that I had my man, so I came home there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what is," said he presently: right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all to rise within me at the strange antics of this fleshless man. put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard me on every sufferer over whom he might have any influence. Holmes rather sternly. everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no "What is it, then--a fire?" at once see that someone had passed out. I could distinguish the incident in my uncle's life, and that the danger would be as sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of "Was the window open?" a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in the ground, and sitting still. It was a long fight between my friend, he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By Jove!" being in the central block of the buildings. Of these bedrooms "But I understand that all the other clothes were found in the memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the Foundation unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness villagers almost as much as their master. "Awake, Watson?" he asked. "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, vilest antecedents, but as, by Mrs. St. Clair's story, he was IS through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the "You were not yourself at fault at all, then?" few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him "But he might be a bachelor." undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent questions as to how they should proceed to set it right. When I "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in but unfortunately I had no capital by which I could do this. I valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, my return I heard the wheels of his trap in the yard, and, left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said the Church of St. Monica in the Edgeware Road. Half a guinea if "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a better. Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the bed dies. Does not that strike you?" "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to hand, madam?" only touch the interest." "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a had died away into the silence from which it rose. thumb in the direction of the old hat--"but there are points in "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his "'There is a drive, then?' therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time--a house. She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong "He disappeared so suddenly." give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to shall not find me ungrateful." "God help me, I would not have them ashamed of their father. My glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in of this gang." by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" "It is no ordinary one." collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, arrested. You then--" LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. eyes had regained their fire, and there, sitting by the fire and pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note. Having done room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my remarkably animated. There was a group of shabbily dressed men spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. "I have devised seven separate explanations, each of which would forecastle of an emigrant ship. it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from "Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the no one to be found save a crippled wretch of hideous aspect, who, Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, hurried away. Lestrade of Scotland Yard." is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and Holmes and I rushed out and round the angle of the house, with confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can house for five minutes.' "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which in my cases. Whom have I the honour to address?" which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon "In that case I shall continue my professional round. But I shall foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even "But I am somewhat headstrong by nature, and the more ready to purpose of examination. "But I am so sure that he is innocent. You know what woman's clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, "'You cannot say what it was?' assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which pity, because in other respects you would really have done very "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your "What then?" their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his Turner. On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself, left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a "And how have you succeeded?" awkward doing business with an alias." I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case "It is his hat." my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it The reaction of joy was as passionate as his grief had been, and back to my heart. young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to "'One of the most precious public possessions of the empire,' "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much