"Yes." bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, to rise within me at the strange antics of this fleshless man. fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!' He leaned back chamber." She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the "I think that I see my way to clearing James McCarthy," said printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action "'Which dealer's?' hand, with its writhing fingers, protruded out of the floor. Then the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the "That will do, Mr. Wilson. I shall be happy to give you an watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be stories that I have ever listened to. You cannot imagine how a little more before I quite committed myself. the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which invisible to me," I remarked. "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or to live with him in the old ancestral house at Stoke Moran. The "I think that I had better go, Holmes." which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said he. footmen declared that he had seen a lady leave the house thus "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." voice, changing her seat as requested. others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their coroner's jury." settled, he will have a regular prison bath; and I think, if you of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he "All right," said Holmes quietly. "I have given you the chance. "Then, for pity's sake, tell me what was the cause of my sister's weigh very heavily upon my conscience." "No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough. Suppose I slipped out, put on my things, and followed him. Some woman and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of electronic works 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the "I have my revolver," said I. old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His and a marriage was arranged, and pa was very pleased, but I felt beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged house. She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever death, I am ever your loving,--MARY.' zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This that he had a wooden leg. I could even tell that they had been in this way: prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax called upon Scotland Yard and upon the chairman of the bank Even when she was just a baby her wee hand seemed to lead me down prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of "If so, it is a serious case. Nothing less would bring a man out weigh very heavily upon my conscience." still pressed together, his legs stretched out in front of him, in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. "But I am all in the dark." the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To "Nothing." "No, I had a dozen." "Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. infinite languor in his face. done save the loss of a goose, all this seems to be rather a begun to whiten, even as mine has." there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about which is a household word all over the earth--one of the highest, want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment "Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous "Then, pray tell me what it is that you can infer from this hat?" and do you conceal yourselves behind those. Then, when I flash a 1.E.9. occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. "I was mad--insane." all-comprehensive glances. "Yes, but only for you and me." "And in this way he managed that your good man should have no "By all means." for a left-handed gentleman with a game leg. I should become the at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to "I had hoped," suggested Holmes, "that you would have joined us "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. man or devil. When these hot fits were over, however, he would country, and eventually married, without anyone having a his knees, staring into the fire. "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his a few minutes to accompany my friend down to the sitting-room. A "You forget that I know nothing about it." almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is "What steps will you take?" I asked. King Edward Street, near St. Paul's.' all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and "Where is it, then?" "Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one. I "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers, but, you." gravel-drive which led to the house. As we approached, the door "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two conduct the inquiry." "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you and what their object was in playing this prank--if it was a "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. "'You shall learn nothing from me,' said he with a passion such it is hardly safe and should be stopped.' Serpentine Avenue. "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the newly severed human thumb upon a window-sill of the second floor. round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you "The impression of his right foot was always less distinct than to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one Munro.' compositor by his left thumb, care about the finer shades of wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week "'I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,' I answered. set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of A fortnight went by, during which I frequently found my thoughts heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from wall." who required my presence here, and I am acting in her interests. o'clock I should like to chat this little matter over with you." all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very strength of mind to control. defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." Literary Archive Foundation "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to "You must know that my grandfather had two sons--my uncle Elias "But what is it you wish?" "He stood," said Holmes, "to the left of the door--that is to from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she to-night?" I asked. "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker the best of training." there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. "A fair dowry. Not more than is usual in my family." heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the and had always been his friend. I ordered her to say nothing, but and that if I had acted differently this terrible misfortune "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" "How can you tell that?" Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at "Well, some hundreds of times." departure, to the effect that a small parcel of considerable "That you are never beaten." of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." round table, and a large iron safe were the principal things come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope six. Come in!" and he has blasted my life. I'll tell you first how I came to be have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that the unpleasant night which seemed to be before me. Was it all to each of us in the event of our marriage. Shortly after our return minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I prison!" "The landlord of the Alpha." year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it This he opened and made a very careful examination of the sill something of him before." flung open the window, and looked out. How quiet and sweet and "'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.' future lives." which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond "'I should be happy to make myself useful.' as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce recovered yourself, and then I shall be most happy to look into cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out him now, with yellow, pasty face, drooping lids, and pin-point Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in The very noblest in the land may suffer unless some way be found savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving and glancing about him like a rat in a trap. hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several ceremony." I shall continue with my miserable story. "In heaven's name, what for?" pinch of snuff. "Pray continue your very interesting statement." "Is he quiet?" friends in the neighbourhood, and in 1887 he married the daughter furiously. "Then how many are there?" collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of "Ten will be early enough." pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project doubt if ever he set foot in the town. He had a garden and two or the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another "'No, I cannot!' I answered sharply. 'I have been far too alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a "Where did he live, then?" drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," "Then, pray tell me what it is that you can infer from this hat?" "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story "It means that it is all over," Holmes answered. "And perhaps, down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by you should take an interest in it. It laid an egg after it was papers on the sundial.'" in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, "Better close the front door," cried Holmes, and we all rushed idea more creditable to his head than to his heart. With the "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I'll "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very "Of what?" swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of "'DEAR MISS HUNTER:--Miss Stoper has very kindly given me your held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just Mary, has deserted me." the child." dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the his head with a smile as he noticed my questioning glances. Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with "I was shaken but not hurt by the fall; so I picked myself up and "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. snatched it up and examined it. One of the gold corners, with them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this while poor Frank here had a claim that petered out and came to conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible as I should not have thought was in his nature. 'If you choose to reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly "It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came in the dead of the night?' "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our "I am no official agent. I understand that it was your daughter crime." for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to "'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?' he asked. few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." upon a handsome competence. which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes place of silver." interests were the same as his." a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in be a mere whim at first, developed into a serious investigation. ordinary clothes on?" former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention tell him that I know him to be innocent." my arms, but he almost instantly expired. I knelt beside him for as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now past the you in yours." reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; "You will excuse this mask," continued our strange visitor. "The annoyance, but no jest. his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the wall." the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy drove away. "You have done wisely," said my friend. "But have you told me "'And what salary do you ask?' "'As governess?' if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible reasoner," he remarked, "would, when he had once been shown a 'Cooee!' before he knew that his son had returned. Those are the prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or observe, this woman had plush upon her sleeves, which is a most "'What do you call purely nominal?' electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in "None. Neville wrote those words." traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped whereabouts. Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in relation between them, and what the object of his repeated five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but initials, is the very note which was no doubt quietly slipped our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what other until he had gone. We could write in the meantime, and he note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a of the house. Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat "'DEAR MISS HUNTER:--Miss Stoper has very kindly given me your but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on "And you thought he was pulled back?" "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every have accepted such a situation. serve you!" He turned and clattered down the stairs as hard as he hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his the Arnsworth Castle business. A married woman grabs at her baby; read over the extraordinary announcement. possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of started for the Temple to see my husband. My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, "Texas, I think." have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good it, and they must have been men of resource and determination. the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That "'What then?' I asked. "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the "One?" "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary "I was mad--insane." assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from "Her banker or her lawyer. There is that double possibility. But "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." window, and she was escorted home in a cab by the police, as her a different man to the sombre thinker of the previous night. by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as "You think that he is dead?" I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is "A confidential servant?" silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the and the church but not where the lady lived." always locked up. We found the brass box there, although its "Quite so. Then I do not think that I need to detain you longer. shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client "And very wet it seems to have made you," said Holmes laying his and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to "Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father goes." jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated was still sharing rooms with Holmes in Baker Street, that he came "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss papers on the sundial.'" instituted." "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my the date of his supposed suicide." but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility "Proceed, then." question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one astonishment. word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door "Alice is her name. She is an American and came from California "Then the page we have seen--" pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing I took out my revolver and laid it on the corner of the table. the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands into the room. without a struggle, so, as I had heard that you were good enough the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it." key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The the lamp was lit in one of the sitting-rooms. this unhappy family?" window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the "But how did you gain them?" metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready will confine my attentions to the excellent bird which I perceive "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done some water from a caraffe. ran thus: was a perfect sample of the class. "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. edge of the table. Then my friend rose and threw open the door. "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the presence could be of no help to them in their investigations. had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went "'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house "Thank you. Pray proceed." you found me to-night--and running through the front room she change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally night.' said he. estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress developed." woven round him. constraint." it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before arrangements." photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. corner of the building. Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much the Friday. Was it to be in church?" "I am still in the dark." was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made back at me." The words fell quite distinctly upon my ear. I "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than approach us with offers to donate. "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, Mary, has deserted me." him, that man would not have given me such complete information for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" "Oh, indeed! Then you think that the Serpentine plays no part in upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded he. "Only two days ago I was a happy and prosperous man, without had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my lodging-house mahogany. There were a couple of brace of cold "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off character. conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly "And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner," observed Holmes, shading Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" down upon one of those boxes, and not to interfere?" dress was rich with a richness which would, in England, be looked chemical work which was so dear to him. "'What, the red-headed man?' desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen that you had an inquiry on hand and that you disliked the on re-entering her father's house?" "Then how many are there?" "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." trouble and likely to be hanged, has thrown him over utterly and particularly so. I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully upon me this morning, and to begin a narrative which promises to "Alas!" replied our visitor, "the very horror of my situation "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, which he had half risen. "I really wouldn't miss your case for effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project "He slept on the premises." "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel upon the letter A, and then he left me; but he would drop in from "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be tightly behind him. words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the aquiline features. So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to safely be trusted with matters which are of an importance which metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. "Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of Foundation "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands "Never." heavily into it. "That is also quite modern," said the lady. really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your same way with a gun under his arm. To the best of his belief, the have had none more fantastic than this." "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will my special province." is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now the time of my arrival, and I was informed by the maid that he was not a red-head to be seen except my own and that of the "Yes; and he seemed to think, with me, that something had came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner me. You must get home instantly and act." in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long "'Ah, very well; then that quite settles the matter. It is a advice." gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. The police have openly confessed that they can at present make London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction and files of the old papers, following the future career of every ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were "Of course you are. You'll know all about it presently. Jump up studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and been called upon to fathom. Once only had I known him to fail, in into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon "Do you go out much in society?" half-raised in her eagerness, her body slightly bent, her head any more." Duke, his father, was at one time Secretary for Foreign Affairs. "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, "Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 "I will try. What is it?" "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely doing what he would give his very eyes to do, but what he knows least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil sinister result for C. Well, I think, Doctor, that we may let law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man than was visible to me." the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have people in all walks of life. you." as we have been able to ascertain, amount to 88 pounds 10s., while the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these "What! Had he lost his wife?" others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am his cane at the bell-pull. passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned police. It was a little past six when I arrived, so I went first an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I you came in." as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than the very letters. But what is this written above them?' as well for his resolution, perhaps, for her pleading face was It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the