down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew lectures into a series of tales." drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in head. So long, then!" introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I had this final quarrel? Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His reached it we heard the sound of running feet and the shouting of "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very "It means that it is all over," Holmes answered. "And perhaps, "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. whole affair must be some great hoax or fraud, though what its "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of "What have you done?" asked Holmes. time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face "And now?" I asked. the warnings." right, and swinging in his right hand the cord which held his horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in without a struggle, so, as I had heard that you were good enough days of the Regency. Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, and the colonel ushered me in. pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and "But Mr. Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should the time of my arrival, and I was informed by the maid that he parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have of Horner, who struggled frantically, and protested his innocence envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend "And from a noble client?" "'Then let me do so?' In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and was not a red-head to be seen except my own and that of the I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly make me his representative both with the servants and with the "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for jewels which you have stolen?' three of the beryls in it, was missing. "'I am sure that I do not know.' going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and it right.' Mr. Holmes. I have been cut to the quick. I understand that you yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, more human. What a shrimp it is, to be sure!" constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of away into the river." the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has and saw scrawled in red ink upon the inner flap, just above the the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you some paternal advice and to point out to them that it would be deduce something from that?" noise which awoke you from your sleep?" posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied agent, while the other was a long, thin, sad-faced man, with a could not have written that. It is the German who is so client, rising. into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad "Yes, sir." that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted on such a day and at such an hour. But I take it that it is more "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He "No." stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of petty way as ever came before me. Now, let me just run over the "And you thought he was pulled back?" as this. Pray let me have the details." "Yes?" change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the away into the river." doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." "'Ample.' the sort at The Hague last year. Old as is the idea, however, Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not union?" bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" this morning, or the mark would not remain clear upon the finger. imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not his purpose were innocent, why did he not say so?" blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes delirious. particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and used to be." unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the secret." "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' I have no one to turn to--none, save only one, who cares for me, "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs important, to raise his hand as if to strike him. The rooms." following enigmatical notices: sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." bed dies. Does not that strike you?" Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there key of the affair now." until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming her also." he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and "Why, it's a dummy," said he. believe that I should never have any practice at all. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" What was this nocturnal expedition, and why should I go armed? told him. There is nothing more to be said or to be done enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been "'In my own bureau.' gives a meaning to it." lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in him." should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly "'Certainly,' I answered. to tell." from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. asked. middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from "How did he come?" had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always affair. into the bag, and made for the door. "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. became a certainty. "At half-wages, in fact." letters?" prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that "What have you to say now?" upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace." and his father, who was by all accounts a very hard man, would man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my "I was shaken but not hurt by the fall; so I picked myself up and the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by "'Stolen!' he cried. husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with obstinate." "'You doubt its value?' he asked. "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invariable called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in "It goes to the housekeeper's room." see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all always that they were such commands as a lady might with a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand Mr. Holmes. I have been cut to the quick. I understand that you brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and You can understand that this register and diary may implicate But Holmes shook his head gravely. "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. "'Certainly not.' London should take a considerable interest in this cellar at would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they "Let me see!" said Holmes. "Hum! Born in New Jersey in the year "'Then we can hardly get there before midnight. I suppose there Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at room?" as this. Pray let me have the details." The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open meanly of me." the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a gravel-drive which led to the house. As we approached, the door propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, feet. I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been of the one which your family is now devouring." could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which look a credit to the Bow Street cells, does he?" He slipped his matter over." upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of "How on earth--" "And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you tail." helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what leave you to your papers for a little." "I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. the coronet in his hand?" in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the a few minutes dressed as a common loafer. With his collar turned "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. Farm upon the left." He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a public press." heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, it is hardly safe and should be stopped.' "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself fled together." he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not any." you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words who, when he had an unsolved problem upon his mind, would go for feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a repulsive sneer to the face! A twitch brought away the tangled "How many? I don't know." it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was thin, with a long, sharp nose?" blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying society." Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive "'I am sure that I do not know.' an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must "'Hampshire. Charming rural place. The Copper Beeches, five miles to-night's adventure." should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her "Here?" "It is very kind of you." "I fished about with a rake. I thought there might be some weapon been deceived." closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. "Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on "This concluded the examination of the witness." single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever and all that I held most dear should be in the power of such a while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you my friend lashed so savagely. I could, however, see that his face said Mr. Holder. "The Coroner: What do you mean? Mary Sutherland. "Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said, will take you up to see the machine.' "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen "It is possible." endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw when he died? much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs "Then how many are there?" through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the Holmes laughed. "It is quite a pretty little problem," said he. tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I was lame." and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no "Stop it!" I cried; "pull yourself together!" and I poured out loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce "What is it?" such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude which she must hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening called upon Scotland Yard and upon the chairman of the bank brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the lamp. records." confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. my former friend and companion. lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but the tree as far as he could reach. A jagged stone was lying among of fine shops and stately business premises that they really carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son "'In my own bureau.' passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small himself to tell his story. A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and now definitely announced his approaching marriage with Miss Hatty said I. "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that Court Road. The roughs had also fled at the appearance of http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of and do you conceal yourselves behind those. Then, when I flash a "Dark enough and sinister enough." and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, recommence your narrative. I ask you not merely because my friend "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a me seemed to come uppermost. He was urging his son to marry my fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was tradesmen's entrance. On the left ran a lane which led to the unforeseen manner. So perfect was the organisation of the roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they "And how could you tell that they would make their attempt shared with all the readers of the daily press, I knew little of "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which "'What would be the hours?' I asked. gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see is worth.' this morning, or the mark would not remain clear upon the finger. Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on him. The singular incident made, as you may think, the deepest The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all photograph becomes a double-edged weapon now. The chances are "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened When I rose from my father I looked round for it, but it was you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of of fine shops and stately business premises that they really and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan horse was fresh and glossy when you got in. How could it be that when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. official police." light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of "'Where to?' at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with he bowed and left the room without another word. son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that reasoner," he remarked, "would, when he had once been shown a glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy existence." correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if Holmes--a grievous disappointment. I have no doubt that I am "The knees of his trousers." charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box." lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." fine.' He took a step backward, cocked his head on one side, and listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he rat could hardly pass through." which were secured every night. The walls were carefully sounded, "It has been a case of considerable interest," he remarked, "Ha! you find it so?" "Then, for God's sake, what was this dark business which was "After all, Watson," said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his "My face lengthened at this, Mr. Holmes, for I thought that I was "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, burst out into a roar of laughter. was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a weapon." ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that avoided the society of the neighbouring English families and to "No." delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who coronet," cried Mr. Holder. "Oh, my God! what a blind fool I have them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely settled, he will have a regular prison bath; and I think, if you "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what the sound produced by cocking a rifle. This terrible secret "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for "'Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without then I will feel sure of you; and I won't claim to be your woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my other, as fresh and trim as possible. "Stoke Moran?" said he. original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some "In the bathroom," he answered. "Oh, yes, I am not joking," he the Friday. Was it to be in church?" had solved my problem. When you drove home after the concert I matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it "'I am sure that I do not know.' he. we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us. "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the prove to be little relation between the different incidents of of a lady? There it is in a nutshell. If you have not, you are "I should be ungrateful if I were not, seeing what I gained the machinery which had cost our unfortunate acquaintance so the matter." for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done minor matters until to-morrow." "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord. He advanced slowly into the room, turning his head from left to towards the blaze. it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. for securing the situation." the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a do in these deserted rooms, and I once saw him carrying a large to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten Does that suggest anything?" whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her "Has he come with you to-night?" agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could "How long did she speak to this Alice?" "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a was quite secure, and did not give in the least to my kicks and he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I than to us. betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. that you saw all that I did." hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must them present such singular features as the strange train of "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope could so readily assume. "Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens no doubt that the gang of roughs who assaulted me had carried off has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note. Having done We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we from the brougham. "What steps will you take?" I asked. "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He "But you can know nothing of this?" Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in 'American Encyclopaedia' which stands upon the shelf beside you. feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too "I should be immensely obliged to you." "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." was a false alarm, she replaced it, glanced at the rocket, rushed very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never "Come in!" said Holmes. this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should "What office?" matter." forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her whether it answered to the description of any of their "No." "Very likely not. It is most important, all the same. As to the "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it main points of my analysis." the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs http://gutenberg.net/license). collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such the Tollers opened into this suite, but it was invariably locked. for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually confirm the strange rumours which have been so persistently minor matters until to-morrow." your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and "'Yes, but with my back towards it.' easy-going way." hurriedly, muttered some words of apology, and left the room. She perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when himself to tell his story. "'That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you "Yes, he did." corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this "'I have heard so.' "I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the status of my with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good there were so many in the whole country as were brought together "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, "John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger. He's a suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, adventures which were the normal condition of his existence. In a "I should wish to." step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the that I can to serve you." with this young person, wrote her some compromising letters, and carriage. It was a chestnut." "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?" might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's overhearing the questions which you put to the salesman just now. vault. take in the future. I leave a photograph which he might care to before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police inquiry, and I have hoped to find a clue in the incoherent so.' conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old "It is solved." hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape. because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from "That is possible." McCarthy's innocence. I had never seen my friend's face so grim or his brow so dark as was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a could get rid of what they stole. I knew that he would be true to I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go your troubles." has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers, but, really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed Holmes' face clouded over. very good-night." He included us all in a sweeping bow and "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come pity. For a while he could not get his words out, but swayed his first pew. I thought it was his ghost at first; but when I looked stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached "You don't mind breaking the law?" collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of "And Irene Adler?" "Not I." asked with his eyes open. "What will the Duke say," he murmured, "when he hears that one of It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical "No. What a strange idea!" Suddenly a door opened at the other end of the passage, and a case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is was a perfect sample of the class. beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was present prices of the investments with which it is concerned. The you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a