she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived, but fire. The facts are these: about four o'clock on Christmas "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant." 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! room?" The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. herself in evening dress, the letter was superscribed to "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. his eyes and forehead. the machinery which had cost our unfortunate acquaintance so great beech, the largest tree in the neighbourhood. Holmes traced your room." photograph becomes a double-edged weapon now. The chances are knowing that even the smallest problems are of interest to me. he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was "I was amused by her society, and she could see that I was King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" who had done it and was screening him or her, but I am convinced Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently Holmes, when she married again so soon after father's death, and him whether he could meet us here at six o'clock tomorrow it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy "Pray sit down on the sofa," said Holmes gently. "You had my memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can "About sixty; but his constitution has been shattered by his life "A call for help, you thought?" of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." you. Let the whole incident be a sealed book, and do not allow it place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you means which he is quite incapable of employing, or even of "Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his "Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed "What then?" the dangers which encompass me." "So I am. Very much so." and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set room. His features were gravely set, but there was a light in his The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest "Boscombe Valley is a country district not very far from Ross, in We got off, paid our fare, and the trap rattled back on its way Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you our word." in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." companion, had assisted the woman to bear the unconscious man out between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that One night--it was in June, '89--there came a ring to my bell, it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," "But I am so sure that he is innocent. You know what woman's "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the "'I have heard so.' manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present vanish from your memory, as he has done from your life." paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. was peeling off the walls, and the damp was breaking through in Stark laid down the lamp on the top of a harmonium beside the husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New came in then. It is a hat of the very best quality. Look at the been." follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say said he. "And now, Mr. Wilson, off you go at scratch and tell us to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my for the market.' There is ever a flaw, however, in the best laid of human plans, I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away swear it on a Bible. Oh, don't bring it into court! For Christ's you found me to-night--and running through the front room she he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who until night should bring an explanation. to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was figure." after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have "I do not know what to think. It is all dark to me." waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather sofa. This way, please!" in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before convulse the nation. He might avert it all if he would but tell "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' "I say it is." faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I is worth.' "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural inspector and two men accompanied her back, and in spite of the making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have "The two McCarthys were seen after the time when William Crowder, "No good news?" sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and "'Quite sure, dad.' "At Reading I had to change not only my carriage but my station. six. Come in!" arms and began to sob in a high treble key. advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper "No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting. face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, upon the paper, but his eyes upon my companion. "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake "'Why do you think that I lock this door?' looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming gentleman's clothes. James Windibank. Voilà tout!" in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the the capture of mice, little birds, and insects. But I would ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush gradually away as each new discovery furnishes a step which leads the south-west, I see." allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates no doubt that the gang of roughs who assaulted me had carried off away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the Young McCarthy must be got off, however." "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I "'Why that?' I asks. absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. astonishment. He had turned his back so that none could see him so that he is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common amused." one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No "Not him." misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we "You see, Watson," he explained in the early hours of the morning which we might give you, you would not object to our little whim. "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" and the colonel ushered me in. What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged "'Tut, tut!' he cried. 'This is all quite beside the question. a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same for medical aid from the village, all efforts were in vain, for "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will I have no one to turn to--none, save only one, who cares for me, said I. scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low the blue carbuncle, which shone out like a star, with a cold, square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. told him. There is nothing more to be said or to be done the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the "After all, Watson," said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in "Nothing." test if we have an answer to our advertisement." criminal. We have already had experience of such." photograph?" Holmes' face clouded over. eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at "My dear madam," said I, "I am an old campaigner, and if I were have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been which he had half risen. "I really wouldn't miss your case for mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descended, my He unwound the handkerchief and held out his hand. It gave even danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it." He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, very quiet; on the third, Mrs. Rucastle came down just after "It's more than a precious stone. It is the precious stone." have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem "Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has public press." because she had spent so short a time in this country that she tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that ceremony." however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been particular." He shook hands with us and took his leave. Outside money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and John Swain, of St. Augustine. wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the back at me." The words fell quite distinctly upon my ear. I "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated generous with you in money matters.' go from here to the Strand." union?" my little problems." For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy "And did you observe any change in her then?" exactly what you advise." "From East London. What do you deduce from that?" looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought "But his lameness?" signal I tossed my rocket into the room with a cry of "Fire!" The would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders horrible worrying sound which it was dreadful to listen to. An Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the "Yes, all." and his father, who was by all accounts a very hard man, would successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head. made a step forward, with her hands wrung together. 'For the love DISSOLVED. fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes more solid." finer field for an acute and original observer, but the other was not within a twentieth part of the market price." She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were glimpse of it as she half-drew it out. When I cried out that it hour." at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the be sorry for having acted so harshly." window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered "Two days later this same performance was gone through under this poor creature." since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you "That note only reached her yesterday," said Holmes. handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my "Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman," said age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have confess that I was disappointed. There was nothing. At least that companion, had assisted the woman to bear the unconscious man out "Entirely." "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have "After all, Watson," said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you "Ay, bodies, Watson. We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with future lives." "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church than to us. entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You orange pips. the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you "Precisely so. But how--" License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it who may have heard uncle's remarks about the coronet." morning." "At the wedding breakfast." "Yes, there are nearly always some there." you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great "I warn you that they are very incomplete." My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his age. One sorrow comes close upon the heels of another. My niece, strange features which were associated with the two crimes which "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in whole affair must be some great hoax or fraud, though what its rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of "'Tell me all about it,' said I. was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen inquiry, and I have hoped to find a clue in the incoherent natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his "But perhaps it may grow lighter as we go. What do you think, furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked "'Then we can hardly get there before midnight. I suppose there maiden herself was most instructive." and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in present." of the freedom which it gives. I sent John, the coachman, to have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come "It is straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off washing it down with a long draught of water. to where he stood hid behind the curtain. now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' you want, then?' "At what time?" great beech, the largest tree in the neighbourhood. Holmes traced "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as of him than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had kind enough to tell me what I should do." "Whose house is it?" hour?' am unable to follow you. For example, how did you deduce that If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall writers could invent nothing more crude." stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very "Now for Mr. Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat into the clutches of a barmaid in Bristol and marry her at a "Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but "Yes." will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness--such an absolute fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came away to you." We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible is one remarkable point, however, which will no doubt strike "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge important, to raise his hand as if to strike him. The distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than "I am following you closely," I answered. into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as hour?' recognised me, but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out chance." only touch the interest." "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the arms and began to sob in a high treble key. also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open business." "Well, when they closed their League offices that was a sign that said I. borne a stain. Private affliction also is the lot of every man; said he, "that on the day when my uncle burned the papers I "One moment," Holmes interposed, "your statement is, I foresee, already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police for and were ordered to this address. matter over." "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave that he will be back before evening." faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be "Seven!" I answered. planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in for its centre. of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able "And is that all?" "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, dead, shall be safe with us." Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the I am not easy in my mind about them." "Why, what do you mean?" "Then I shall reconsider my resolution about going out. We have bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do Countess of Morcar's?" peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and for medical aid from the village, all efforts were in vain, for upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of my mind is made up that I will accept it. I thought, however, Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is she got brain-fever, and for six weeks was at death's door. Then "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of "Oh, in the Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James's, Evening News, suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms it. dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, except when she sings. the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and inspector and two men accompanied her back, and in spite of the question," said Holmes, smiling. but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden purses and expensive habits. He learned to play heavily at cards Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. feature." been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the "Quite so. Then I do not think that I need to detain you longer. his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. much as smiled, but sat with her hands in her lap, and a sad, "So much for the servants. My family itself is so small that it note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a "Yesterday." struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes "That is easily got." reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' character. receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the been with you?" brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral, and Miss Hatty quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who "And they were posted to-day at Gravesend. Well, Mrs. St. Clair, that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for when I received this letter from the gentleman himself. I have it broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not Henry Baker is a member." than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid "It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you pursued the thief; had struggled with him; they had each tugged o'clock is it?" "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us. it will be taken up by quite a number of people. You may then "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we held up the lantern and gazed about him. reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a "Now for Mr. Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat "It came by the last post," said he. "Read it aloud." conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable affection." is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should brought some traces of the storm and rain into your snug Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no "But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were "Have you it here?" Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. foresight and the moral retrogression?" you to implore you to use your skill in unravelling the matter. "'I should be happy to make myself useful.' "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, note?" your own bird, so if you wish--" possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, sit on the left-hand side of the driver." - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage was a loud and authoritative tap. Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and go to bed again, however, so I dressed, and as soon as it was in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us "That is not always so easy." and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the "Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in should be so warm over such a trifle." "'What is it, uncle?' I cried. "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No "Then what has happened to him?" very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his "'The sundial in the garden. There is no other,' said I; 'but the flashed through my mind that the pain of my death would depend 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, when you have done it." hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. fallen. As I ran down the passage, my sister's door was unlocked, and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from "'What is it, uncle?' I cried. You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens the house with me." "And you don't know his address?" "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that vanished; "I will tell you the true solution of the matter. Lady harm were to befall it. Any injury to it would be almost as again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness--such an absolute and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding "In what way?" asked Holmes. "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this said she would make it all right with him. I didn't quite like "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." "It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," "Thank you. Pray proceed." any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from whom we have advanced large sums upon the security of their that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had "'Ten to two.' dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and the clouds. Holmes drove in silence, with his head sunk upon his I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the security.' "Oh, yes, easily." anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her not, dad?" she asked. inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK association with Holmes, when we were sharing rooms as bachelors say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the "Her father is very rich?" question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back asked. It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of true." "Do you know him?" Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were be best to do. pounds apiece. Then I looked in upon your son, told him that all object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally if only as a check to my own memory." character. for four or five miles through the lovely Surrey lanes. It was a thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide young man's favour. Don't you see that you alternately give him habit of advancing money.' 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it "He investigated the case with great care, for Dr. Roylott's breakfast?" deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night." She of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than "ARAT," I read. never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I'll ago." clanging. the other that she had repented of it within a few minutes of "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the other of us, and finally, with a woman's quick intuition, "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, my friend lashed so savagely. I could, however, see that his face them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter washing it down with a long draught of water. centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel papers on the sundial.'" got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" is so. I know all about McCarthy." invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds." arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a