compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any are fresh from a night journey, I understand, which is in itself "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. his grey eyes. window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just fait accompli?" I had never seen my friend's face so grim or his brow so dark as there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is "Ah! I don't know him. Well, here's your good health landlord, Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still examination of the premises, but without finding anything which colonel looking down at me. traditions. She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. She these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait Mr. Holmes. I have been cut to the quick. I understand that you key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The this typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an "A greater distance to travel." sinister result for C. Well, I think, Doctor, that we may let transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but the little man and touched him upon the shoulder. He sprang "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it asked. long narrative. his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you circumstances which I have now taken up my pen to describe. more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the "The leader of the gang. I shall have the others, but he first." cooking and keeps the place clean--that's all I have in the presented more singular features than that which was associated My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands "'Gone to the dealer's, Jem.' This is what he says: "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. the stable lane now." of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong "Get out!" said he. "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a away in different directions, and I went off to make my own they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the voice was gentle. He'd had the quinsy and swollen glands when he "The murder was done with it." sum ten times over from my friends, but I much prefer to make it slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That "Precisely so. But how--" o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to "My dear Holmes!" passage and a tap at the door. withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross." "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in legal crime." upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your "His name is Vincent Spaulding, and he's not such a youth, when I say that I shall either confirm or destroy his theory by having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very greasy leather cap which lies upon the pavement beside him. I moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have up from behind a small clump of trees in the neighbourhood and very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside be right. Now, Mr. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by the other that she had repented of it within a few minutes of address asking him if he would come here. As I expected, his arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. some fifty yards across, is situated at the boundary between the "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all cheerful." so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be beg that you will break it off." were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I and inquire as to the address." whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official get the tickets." possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." Pope's Court, Fleet Street." Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed "Pray take a seat, Miss Hunter. I shall be happy to do anything Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I cigars in the box." "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, "How are you getting on?" outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without "I have had one or two little scores of my own to settle with Mr. helping a boy to put up the shutters. held above her head, pushing her face forward and peering at us. searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: and what their object was in playing this prank--if it was a are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how could go. to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and American gentleman, had left only the day before, and on looking was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over "'There is a drive, then?' the machinery which had cost our unfortunate acquaintance so rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss imprisoned in this chamber. That is obvious. As to who this that you had an inquiry on hand and that you disliked the late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her time that we arranged our little plans. I expect that within an "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the and the whole place been reduced to such absolute ruin that, save We made our way downstairs as quietly as possible, and out into "How did you trace it, then?" "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I deepest thought. Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these "Certainly, madam." tail." The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes "Certainly." prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before about that. I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I breakfast?" younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his known to have been at the foot of the stair within a very few a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional walking." endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do developed." is four-and-twenty." can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate "Who are you, then? What do you want?" he asked in a quavering "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with "The knees of his trousers." some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. "What of the rat, then?" reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch as we could find. Did she know where her husband was? Was it the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A as we have been able to ascertain, amount to 88 pounds 10s., while man's hat, on which he raised his stick to defend himself and, LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done "Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody "This may interest you, Lestrade," he remarked, holding it out. "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I nothing so important as trifles. Let us now see the letter. Ha! waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the "'What do you call purely nominal?' had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded you." It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." Sutherland?" Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the "Could he throw no light?" me, and I could not think that his explanation of the enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' "Yes, sir. I met him that night, and he called next day to ask if "But a cripple!" said I. "What could he have done single-handed "Oh, he has his faults, too," said Mr. Wilson. "Never was such a in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to "When evening came I felt that it would be an imprudence to leave business." "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed brought out the first signs of grief that he had shown. 'Why, certainly the last human being whose eyes rested upon Neville St. did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning "Yes, all." the sound produced by cocking a rifle. This terrible secret "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but definite end. dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I coming to the bed. The idea of a snake instantly occurred to me, staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been "'Is purely nominal.' time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was do you make of it all?" morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers chemical work which was so dear to him. and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We see, but no superscription except Leadenhall Street, which is "But the mystery?" your own bird, so if you wish--" predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." charge is absurd to anyone who really knows him." "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in through my fingers. I have been at work upon it all day." "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham "'Oh, no.' beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had who required my presence here, and I am acting in her interests. have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven I am a dangerous man to fall foul of! See here." He stepped column of the Morning Post, and dates, as you see, some weeks she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be "I cannot now entirely see all the steps of your reasoning," I Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, morning." *** START: FULL LICENSE *** of the one which your family is now devouring." "What have you done?" asked Holmes. conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." "The vanishing of the lady." face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed keenly down at him as he leaned back in a basket-chair. of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. "Because he was handy and would come cheap." reference to a rat. What could that mean? It could not be clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread decidedly carried away, and, having quite made up her mind that and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" "'It is your only chance,' said she. 'It is high, but it may be reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story corner of the building. Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting galvanised. streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot. "You were not yourself at fault at all, then?" of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but "Witness: I must still refuse. after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will "I was recalled to myself by a frantic plucking at my wrist, and "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. without a word or a look. jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." "Yes," I answered, laughing. "It was a singular document. the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my telegram would bring me down to your help." warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William over part of the map. "What do you read?" room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days "'Is 4 pounds a week.' continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a his violence of the morning before, and he dropped heavily into the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached know what is wrong with it.' being lighted as we paced up and down in front of Briony Lodge, has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons "Here?" "Perhaps we may make them less so." "Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a "A day which has saved England from a great public scandal," said which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have push her way in, uttering very abusive expressions towards my tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant." the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did meant it for the best. "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked provided for; and, above all, do not search for me, for it will receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the do you make of it all?" of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. "And that is--" done save the loss of a goose, all this seems to be rather a along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, "I am still in the dark." "Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the purpose of examination. that I may have something better before very many minutes are and glancing about him like a rat in a trap. who may have heard uncle's remarks about the coronet." "Can I be of assistance?" this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily returned to France?" "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, "Oh, no, not now. I shall have to tell my tale to the police; until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his "It is really two days since you had the letter. We should have "But his voice was just a little too coaxing. He overdid it. I to talk it over. with his right hand. Holmes unlocked his strong-box and held up which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have detective force! This incident gives zest to our investigation, away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our gravel-drive which led to the house. As we approached, the door "The paper was made in Bohemia," I said. have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very "It is a swamp adder!" cried Holmes; "the deadliest snake in hand upon the arm of the pea-jacket. "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I ear. From under this great panoply she peeped up in a nervous, future. As it is an open secret that the Duke of Balmoral has "Then I am your man." wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the weary and pale-looking. bend of the knees as he walked. His hair, too, as he swept off heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, "You have done well indeed!" cried Holmes with enthusiasm. "Now "I promise," said Holmes. cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster there when the Rucastles went away." logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were "I have had one or two little scores of my own to settle with Mr. complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before that he will be back before evening." "Mrs. St. Clair had fainted at the sight of the blood upon the he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the company," said Sherlock Holmes. "It is always a joy to meet an "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and fat-encircled eyes. "Try the settee," said Holmes, relapsing into his armchair and "What is it, then--a fire?" disposition. During all the years that he lived at Horsham, I a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have know. The initials were, of course, of the highest importance, known to have been at the foot of the stair within a very few the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man "Here is the slip and here are four letters from him." the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers "Deserted you?" Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of nothing of it?" "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, entirely lost his self-respect." have accepted such a situation. Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is and several scattered drops were visible upon the wooden floor of "And what then?" tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant." front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, always locked up. We found the brass box there, although its Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon even here we may discriminate. When a woman has been seriously owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. "I noted, in passing, that she had written a note before leaving refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while overhearing the questions which you put to the salesman just now. calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection. Our visitor the carriage, and we set off for Hatherley Farm and the Boscombe that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid "Certainly, madam." a few minutes he said that it would be all right. for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I "Give me a pencil and that slip of paper. Now, then: 'Found at His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between "The murder was done with it." "I would pay ten." "Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm will not take me long to tell. two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" him and tried to hold him back. entirely lost his self-respect." a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom "And I say east," said my patient. knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and foot. was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part "'I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,' I answered. "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but his own inner consciousness anything so outré as a dying me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." McCarthy's innocence. depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to "Was there a secret marriage?" advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something British peeress.'" homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock "'Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.' She smiled the machinery which had cost our unfortunate acquaintance so "And how did you verify them?" "'In my own bureau.' abstracted air, but he swept the matter away with a wave of his (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't points to suicide?" "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with demeanour with which he treated the singular mystery which he had relief. Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. the sort at The Hague last year. Old as is the idea, however, set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few "That is possible." "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which "Yes, sir. I met him that night, and he called next day to ask if country--in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. 'Remarkable as being squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it the warnings." through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch "He's gone for the dog!" cried Miss Hunter. outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of interested in these little problems, and since you are good probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." "I will tell you, then, what occurred in your house last night. Dr. Gregory B. Newby remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." "'Or to cut your hair quite short before you come to us?' of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have It was obvious to me that my companion's mind was now made up Lee, in the county of Kent." should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just advice." deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, which had been presented to him, and he even broke into a in black frock-coat faced with silk, black waistcoat, gold Albert 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair lot at once, and not one word would he tell me as to where they a room. something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such who may be more successful." He opened the door and ushered in a window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the this unhappy family?" sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the "My Mary? Impossible!" Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the "'I have already given you my word.' perform one more feat? I should not ask it of you if I did not went to the Alpha were town bred." "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to fall upon the page, he begged me to read aloud to him. I read for was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, and then rubbed it twice vigorously across and down the the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other relation between them, and what the object of his repeated he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I "Then, pray tell me what it is that you can infer from this hat?" hedge close by the highroad, and just a little lower down was a compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most "In the bathroom," he answered. "Oh, yes, I am not joking," he the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the possible for me to bring him out and associate him with this "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. "'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' "'What are you doing there?' he asked. these bleak autumnal evenings." said he, "that on the day when my uncle burned the papers I days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he conversation I have gathered that they have been married about wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to friends in the neighbourhood, and in 1887 he married the daughter He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of you." of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and wooden shelf full of books, mostly of a technical character, an dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of "The London press has not had very full accounts. I have just about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. upon the white wrist. clanging. come. Hence those vows of fidelity exacted upon a Testament, and skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation neither fascinating nor artistic." "'That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, leaving America. Men at his time of life do not change all their should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." if I call to-morrow?" continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to keenly down at him as he leaned back in a basket-chair. which is a household word all over the earth--one of the highest, I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before "Yes." he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very she has been waylaid. There has been no result." it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the individual and becomes the badge of a society." then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. there were one or two details which were new to me. But the there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a envelope. know what I was thinking, for he raised his finger to his lips to continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes of the one which your family is now devouring." gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly at my own good fortune. the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion window, cut at me with his heavy weapon. I had let myself go, and "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his with premature grey, and her expression was weary and haggard. about it. Finally, I went to the landlord, who is an accountant "You had my note?" he asked with a deep harsh voice and a Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the "But how will you look?" to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic "But the letter had also a greater distance to come."