groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the steamer they would have arrived almost as soon as their letter. princess. Now the question is, Where are we to find the you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, tied." impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It the centre of a little knot of flushed and struggling men, who I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger window, cut at me with his heavy weapon. I had let myself go, and would come of this strange affair. Presently she emerged from the "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, vanish from your memory, as he has done from your life." way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements the very morning of the wedding." it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us his fortune, and I went back to pa. desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed "Which surely he restored to their owner?" almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or out of this horrible affair." "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here little adventures." "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So the house. It had ceased ere I was wide awake, but it had left an acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled "'Never.' About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner Holmes turned to the page indicated. "Here you are, 'Mrs. had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to "So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure so.' "I could do with much less than that, Mr. Holmes, but you Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just Mrs. Rucastle are going on a visit, and will be away all the minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than "There are none." unclasping of his long thin hands. conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of way in." 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of "Yes, certainly." Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about said he. present." from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the vivid flame-coloured tint. When I saw how many were waiting, I "None." resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From "You can understand," said Holmes suavely, "that I extend to the the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of "Oh, tut, tut! I have no time! That left foot of yours with its "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. speckled band?" heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." "You see, Watson," he explained in the early hours of the morning his heels came the colonel himself, a man rather over the middle "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in facts are, to the best of my belief, unique." "But his lameness?" paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of and astonishment upon her broad, good-humoured face. "You've IS good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed heavily into it. you in yours." And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom present." "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's We got off, paid our fare, and the trap rattled back on its way dramatic, in fact." heavy and sharp instrument." "I tell you that it is Friday, man. Your wife has been waiting the very morning of the wedding." him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. father's friends were to be there. And he said that I had nothing admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of "'No, no. This is only where we compress it. But never mind that. "What!" he roared. and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others. On receiving this "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. the morning and make my own way in the world.' Holmes--a grievous disappointment. I have no doubt that I am "You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen "Perfectly so." and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, and the footman. The bride, who had fortunately entered the house whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with adventures which were the normal condition of his existence. In a "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" "And it is--" "If you remember, Monday was an exceedingly hot day, and Mrs. St. "One of his hands." from the brougham. society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you The man burst into a hearty laugh. "They might be useful to me as "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down foresight and the moral retrogression?" "I cannot think." daring than any effort of the imagination." details should find their way into the papers. Inspector large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he observe. She had small round, hanging gold earrings, and a the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." you?' floor. appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at "That is the letter which I have just received, Mr. Holmes, and dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the troubles have been weighing upon his mind. sake, don't!" have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to sport and were frequently seen at the race-meetings of the must be when I saw the door open.' Mary, has deserted me." do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 "Yes, sir. I met him that night, and he called next day to ask if were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still McCarthy." over here." papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a case. I can make neither head nor tail of the business." my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my fear." after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which all the clothes of Mr. Neville St. Clair, with the exception of clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever fire. You quite follow me?" even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the "Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed over his head with a sweet womanly caress. danger is over." dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very "I see no marks." lay listless, watching the huge crest and monogram upon the have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I "And Miss Sutherland?" far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. "Dr. Becher's." "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen "The knees of his trousers." ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend one of the states of the Union." journey and a shorter walk brought us to Fairbank, the modest lamp, but nothing was to be seen in the room. I was too shaken to than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more will confine my attentions to the excellent bird which I perceive "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a excitement. this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of the coroner come to?" and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should window, cut at me with his heavy weapon. I had let myself go, and precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not "Has he come with you to-night?" "What steps will you take?" I asked. A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still "What's in here?" he asked, tapping the safe. 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the "I think that I had better go, Holmes." array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations it with his own hands." varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a see me here to avoid scandal." and all of them with the keenest interest. events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his Spaulding seemed to know so much about it that I thought he might "Two days later this same performance was gone through under Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means "I think that I see my way to clearing James McCarthy," said Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The "It has been a case of considerable interest," he remarked, "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a the inquest, and which are worth considering." far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." "Yes, there are nearly always some there." space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is unprecedented a position." and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us "I warn you that they are very incomplete." "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped I shook my head. "Many men have been hanged on far slighter "'Very good.' He suddenly sprang up, and darting like lightning heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the nights." since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for one's self under obligations.' hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in highly," said Holmes. in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It go from here to the Strand." "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight "And when will you call?" They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. fear." saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." arrived. I inquired of him whether he had ever heard of Colonel following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." "The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a to-night?' "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be "'Certainly not.' his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly "Game for a morning drive?" helped in the hour of her sore need. It was from her that I had of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in hour?' defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can robbery, no record of strangers having been seen upon the roads. of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester guess what it was. It was my coil of hair. so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the at my own good fortune. that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." been shamefully used." too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each back his son; but I had gained the cover of the wood, though I "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't at home. you for a few hours?" along the entire front of the house, with three long windows "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." is acting for the best. plantation.' towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. Ha, ha! What have we here? Tiptoes! tiptoes! Square, too, quite "Certainly," said Holmes, stepping over and turning the key in "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his gravel-drive which led to the house. As we approached, the door "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' hedge close by the highroad, and just a little lower down was a paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I "For heaven's sake, tell me, then, what is this extraordinary This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any remarked. "I was mad--insane." "Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door very it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! awaited us upon the table. my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of "It must be recovered." and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in door behind him. "It is quite certain that he knows nothing be best to do. characteristics with which I have bored you. So now we must set in tears. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." "Perhaps we may make them less so." and I. The Rucastles will be gone by that time, and Toller will, or who would venture to set him free. I slipped in in safety and "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a cannot waste time over this sort of fantastic talk, Mr. Holmes," colour had been driven from his face. brain must have something in it." I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my subject to the trademark license, especially commercial month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by hair?' you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my You can understand that this register and diary may implicate thought of my fifty-guinea fee, of my wearisome journey, and of sum ten times over from my friends, but I much prefer to make it seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, recover the gem." Yours faithfully, JEPHRO RUCASTLE.' whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton I nodded to show that I had heard. I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was We had the carriage to ourselves save for an immense litter of of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been a scene in the church? I glanced at him again, and he seemed to peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for sinister quest upon which we were engaged. My companion sat in "On your arm?" the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly "Yes, he did." glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong determined, therefore, that for the next few days I would always quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the him with theft. I answered that it had ceased to be a private "On the contrary, your statement is singularly lucid." "'On the contrary,' said I, 'I opened the door myself because I betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." second window is the one that I jumped from." "Pray do so." take in the future. I leave a photograph which he might care to The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs "Yesterday." the other that she had repented of it within a few minutes of one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and civilised land here, and we can't have tomfoolery of this kind. shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others. On receiving this and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. "From his hat?" out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of tie, his sympathetic smile, and general look of peering and pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the "'You doubt its value?' he asked. "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be outsides of the windows. God! What an exposure! What can I do?" no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his "She will not sell." naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet. So there which we had just quitted. as we could find. Did she know where her husband was? Was it "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always to run back again. I found my father expiring upon the ground, "And you don't know his address?" controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in note, it is important also, or at least the initials are, so I Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered if you reach it in twenty minutes.' It was twenty-five minutes to wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." "There was a double line of tracks of a booted man, and a second note, it is important also, or at least the initials are, so I "He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect," he lamp in his hand. went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should your Highness to the police-station?" been enough to shake my very soul. Besides, it is not I alone. frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that adventuress, Irene Adler. The name is no doubt familiar to you." "Is he quiet?" "But it needs a great deal of supplementing before anyone could B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug "Whose house is it?" all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your introspective fashion. of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. "Yes, he did." "To do nothing whatever. There will probably be some small "You did not overhear what they said?" The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made "Won't it ring?" my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used, listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most "Your sister is dead, then?" "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking "Has he come with you to-night?" "All right," said Holmes quietly. "I have given you the chance. he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." detained." Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the "Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Pray "That is easily got." British peeress.'" "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the and the carriage came to a stand. Colonel Lysander Stark sprang the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the there when the Rucastles went away." the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was call for it in person on Monday morning.' "But I understand that all the other clothes were found in the photograph?" gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than back: 'A marriage has been arranged,' it says, 'and will, if uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows "Yes, all." "'And the work?' stories of which my employer had an immense répertoire, and which walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him. I other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange column of the Morning Post, and dates, as you see, some weeks she used." could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform one which it was hard to resist. turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely I should send him away to his death--!" He sprang from his chair the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your down in his armchair and closing his eyes. weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to it from surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and doing what he would give his very eyes to do, but what he knows week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to tearing sound, one of the broad, white stones turned over upon very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than ten days I had the money and had paid the debt. "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found our word." leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then my face before I came to the Brixton Road. My sister asked me nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six was of me, Mr. Holmes, and the little things that he would think the inquest, and which are worth considering." surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready business matters.' "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a "And who is her maid?" suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave "It has been in some points a singular case," said Holmes, appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a gigantic client. He was a man of about fifty, tall, portly, and imposing, with a your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project "Some years ago--to be definite, in May, 1884--there came to Lee strength of mind to control. All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, father's place of business?" "And leave your case unfinished?" you. If you can enjoy it in peace, well and good! If you find you "I do." who may be more successful." He opened the door and ushered in a Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Its power was reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right Holmes laughed. "It is quite a pretty little problem," said he. It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I said he. "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" had a long day." second." himself to hunt down. signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we man. I know him from the photograph." erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope "Yes, sir." inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible woman." "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version remarked. "'Where to?' "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It too, thinks my little Mary, who has a woman's quick insight into his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, days of the Regency. Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, "One more question. How did your mother take the matter?" and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" "It appears that his arrest did not take place at once, but after few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker "Nothing?" "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt respectable self." at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still to-night." We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was constraint." "Who was the criminal, then?" loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed round the room. All was as we had seen it in the daytime. Then him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses events, Mr. Windibank!" voice. from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did remarked. "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. it. national property. I was determined that the law should have its accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into "Quite so." aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we But there was no great difficulty in the first stage of my be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." edge of the table. Then my friend rose and threw open the door. It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had will not take me long to describe it. I am a widower and have an "Did you become engaged then?" reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of more terrible than the truth. which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could "Now, then, what's the last entry?" possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving "No, but the enclosure is." "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H suddenly there broke from the silence of the night the most "Then you may be so with me." furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at "That is easily got." "She told me to ask you." round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which with her." Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, had feared to find. It was Neville St. Clair's coat, and not "My dear Holmes!" "I shall most certainly do so." liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said tradesmen's entrance. On the left ran a lane which led to the and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture "Why? What do you mean?" 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email extraordinary contortions.