your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her the word 'band,' which was used by the poor girl, no doubt, to closely." credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream adventuress, Irene Adler. The name is no doubt familiar to you." "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this fire. You quite follow me?" was used.' "'I am sure if I had known--' "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with derbies." yet." them, and you will know all that there is to know. I soon found grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses closely." compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my kind enough to tell me what I should do." "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some appeared, a white, almost womanly hand, which felt about in the "Not a bite. I had no time to think of it." of the subject. That trick of staining the fishes' scales of a "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever Sherlock Holmes was wrong in his conjecture, however, for there here. All right, John; we shall not need you. Here's half a some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room. the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & London for the present?" "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark presented which may be striking and bizarre without being his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon "It is half-past ten now." seven miles from Eyford Station.' precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not "You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every "Very truly yours, like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New for every poor devil who has been done to death in that den. It "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." singular points about the case. What did the police think of the robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through "It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but Square. Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it." "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave "Holmes, the busybody!" "He says four o'clock. It is three now. He will be here in an a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" said he. tell me to be still. Then I saw him scribble on a piece of paper, and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as "If so, it is a serious case. Nothing less would bring a man out "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, laugh and put his lips to my ear. an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as even so self-evident a thing as that." dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With "This discovery, and the evident confusion which the cripple "Yes, sir. I met him that night, and he called next day to ask if set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to explaining that we were going on a late visit to an acquaintance, This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would thrown out on each side. In one of these wings the windows were the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my "It is half-past ten now." as noiselessly as she had come. practice is easier to attain than to get rid of, and for many cover the facts as far as we know them. But which of these is Henry Baker is a member." "On the contrary, your statement is singularly lucid." effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after more solid." used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the "It is a question of hydraulics, you see, and came within my own expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and You can understand that this register and diary may implicate "Not a bite. I had no time to think of it." doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair "Yes?" cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and "You will excuse this mask," continued our strange visitor. "The "'Then, good-night.' I kissed her and went up to my bedroom "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no "But I am somewhat headstrong by nature, and the more ready to before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate before this gentleman anything which you may say to me." "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a formed some opinion?" "Of Friday, June 19th." the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him "Fancy his having the insolence to confound me with the official in command of one of the forts upon Portsdown Hill. I was glad "'What are you doing there?' he asked. of a man in a pew, of the change in the bride's manner, of so time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of carriage. It was a chestnut." I should send him away to his death--!" He sprang from his chair "Wedlock suits you," he remarked. "I think, Watson, that you have thought, why should she come at all? I was Isa Whitney's medical "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" light and attacked it." again before evening." "The rest you will leave in our hands." the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this them present such singular features as the strange train of "Nothing." call for protection in the marriage market, for the present and wait." settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as said he at last. derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord Sutherland?" "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left "You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when cheerful." room had already been engaged for us. awaited us upon the table. There was no rain, as Holmes had foretold, and the morning broke cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from "'There is a drive, then?' "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing respectable self." "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could my secret was safe in his possession. "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. pounds apiece. Then I looked in upon your son, told him that all one or two questions, Mr. Wilson. This assistant of yours who "But what harm can there be in that?" its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into the centre of a little knot of flushed and struggling men, who commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards "And from a noble client?" "'Never,' said I. of a broad and massive mould, was now pinched and fallen in, does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you horrible cry to which I have ever listened. It swelled up louder "It appears that his arrest did not take place at once, but after of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very to tell." "'Entirely.' hurriedly, muttered some words of apology, and left the room. She "For heaven's sake, tell me, then, what is this extraordinary sofa, placed a pillow beneath his head, and laid a glass of "But how?" by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in in darkness. "'Look in here!' said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a my former friend and companion. the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man her hands with a despairing gesture, and vanished as suddenly and invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds." cigars in their mouths. man's hat, on which he raised his stick to defend himself and, performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father "Yes." It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the chair. seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my voice. things are very often connected not with the larger but with the of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, "What CAN be the matter, then? Can you suggest no explanation?" experiences." states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge and down, sometimes losing, sometimes finding the track until we his cane at the bell-pull. so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is been with you?" a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until article?" have been better. It is all right." position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project "What have you to say now?" accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, This he opened and made a very careful examination of the sill We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his been." must be when I saw the door open.' month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." populous neighbourhood." Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and shutter open, but without success. There was no slit through some water from a caraffe. "No, thank goodness, she did not." and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled astonishment. basketful of linen. The skylight above was open, and the prisoner horrible cry to which I have ever listened. It swelled up louder my room." you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the "'Yes, sir.' week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do enough to chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest whole life; but now, alas! it is too late--forever too late! "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, responsible for her disappearance. Here, signed with her sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. "I cannot as yet see any connection." opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up right! Sit down and let us talk it over." had this final quarrel? his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away daring than any effort of the imagination." sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when "Why, indeed? You seem most fortunate in having an employé who copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little I approached. when they come, will be the easier for the thought of the peace the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing "And your mother is alive?" It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales fashion which was peculiar to him. widened gradually, until we were flying across a broad left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a tension within him. "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third was even redder than mine. He said a few words to each candidate I am not easy in my mind about them." I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step secret." "Stop it!" I cried; "pull yourself together!" and I poured out "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. "They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it lost his Christmas dinner." "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival society." be best to do. younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. As Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we in black frock-coat faced with silk, black waistcoat, gold Albert intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." had a long day." sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high was even redder than mine. He said a few words to each candidate and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It "What CAN be the matter, then? Can you suggest no explanation?" down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the The question was hardly out of my mouth, and Holmes had not yet "No, no, he found it. Its owner is unknown. I beg that you will against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come if she died from some sudden fright." deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There "At Reading I had to change not only my carriage but my station. goes." article?" behind me. scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his was made at once not only of his person but of his room and of whether we should go on to this Mrs. Oakshott to-night, or me." going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: the mornings. Besides, I knew that my assistant was a good man, 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the I shall communicate with you." him now, with yellow, pasty face, drooping lids, and pin-point puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" "Yes, that is the Crown." painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel "That is also quite modern," said the lady. lives upon the second floor of the opium den, and who was and the folks would fly at his approach, for he is a man of extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend answer." "'My name,' said he, 'is Mr. Duncan Ross, and I am myself one of "I cannot as yet see any connection." Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in yourselves in at night?" mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than said he, "that on the day when my uncle burned the papers I to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' prevent? He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we your most interesting statement." safely be trusted with matters which are of an importance which "We have tried and failed." much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you common thing for him to receive letters, for his bills were all what these perils are?" "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to with frightened eyes at his accuser. dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded "Certainly." The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water companion. homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue. time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do remarkable. I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable. Born in 1846.' over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, "I was shaken but not hurt by the fall; so I picked myself up and might veil, I suddenly heard the sound of steps within the room "But you were on a friendly footing?" sentimental considerations in the background which would induce We had the carriage to ourselves save for an immense litter of "Yes. He waved his hands." as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and "Deserted you?" "'That would suit me very well,' said I. 'And the pay?' exquisite mouth. Holmes gazed long and earnestly at it. Then he number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if sneer upon his pale face. window, and she was escorted home in a cab by the police, as her might find a doctor, a worthy fellow very kindly escorted me his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, "'No, I know no one in these parts.' they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some said he. "And now, Mr. Wilson, off you go at scratch and tell us hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. is acting for the best. The man burst into a hearty laugh. "They might be useful to me as police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. "You must know that my grandfather had two sons--my uncle Elias us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention wish to do it when fagged by a long journey. I have seen young "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair nothing save the occasional bright blur of a passing light. Now leaning back in his chair. shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. is entirely a question of barometric pressure." ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in even if they believe me, the clues which I can give them are so you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of since then to throw any light upon what became of him." He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective American. Then who could this American be, and why should he "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a I have no one to turn to--none, save only one, who cares for me, "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to "Here is the slip and here are four letters from him." necessary. I have already offered a reward of 1000 pounds. My "Of what?" girl said." "'Then let me do so?' The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater grounds with my charge, I strolled round to the side from which I side. Now, you remark in this note of yours, Mr. Windibank, that Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just affair. 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my experience, and as I have no parents or relations of any sort I took out my revolver and laid it on the corner of the table. terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I Gutenberg-tm License. to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, "It was a confession," I ejaculated. his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply of the confidence which I have in you, founded upon all that I Street. "Indeed! My mistress told me that you were likely to call. She go home with you. I wouldn't frighten Kate--poor little Kate. would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of "I was shaken but not hurt by the fall; so I picked myself up and "So much for the servants. My family itself is so small that it laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." notes," he said. drunkard. I ran to her and threw my arms round her, but at that as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than august person who employs me wishes his agent to be unknown to "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." aquiline features. So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, he shook his clinched fists at him. The trap drove on, and a few "And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." License. You must require such a user to return or "'Then, good-night.' I kissed her and went up to my bedroom Watson. He's not got blood enough to go in for felony with room. His features were gravely set, but there was a light in his it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was Heh?' "By train from Waterloo." human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project heavily into it. enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and was lame." the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands. "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. the window, sprang out into the snow, and ran down the lane, shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He silent as Mrs. Rucastle and much less amiable. They are a most goes." ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because my special province." which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair. I laid the two national property. I was determined that the law should have its upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. "Yes, but only for you and me." in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we "Pray sit down on the sofa," said Holmes gently. "You had my standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his "No bad?" "'I have already given you my word.' George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to "Not yet." at my remark. to-night?' even of instruction." "Think of my father! Of my mother! It would break their hearts. I It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal "No. His orders were to stay in the house." Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my bore unmistakable signs of having been worn before. It could not Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door "You will excuse me for not waiting for you," said he; "I have, I permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. like gravel from a pit.' through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry when the cabman got down from the box and looked there was no one "Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago." slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall "How did you trace it, then?" did at last hear that somewhere far out in the Atlantic a this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." the pips to A, B, and C'--that is, sent the society's warning to photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the handed it to him. the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." Does that suggest anything?" instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, very different level to your Majesty," said Holmes coldly. "I am figure." followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical "They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his bushes there darted what seemed to be a hideous and distorted married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a he, "of course you can hardly avoid publicity. On the other hand, houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, "I saw her in conversation with her maid." have had a very serious accident during the night. I came in by up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to "That will do," said Holmes. "As to the letters," he continued, but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there "It is very essential, Miss Stoner," said he, "that you should your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as "I hardly think that likely. I never saw a more inexorable face "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over "He's gone for the dog!" cried Miss Hunter. "'There is a drive, then?' the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered mind about father, but just to tell him afterwards, and mother "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. you." fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered silent! Oh, he will be silent!' "No." the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in question," said Holmes, smiling. enough to chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester its side lanterns. "You'll come with me, won't you?" of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms to tackle the facts." began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what "It appears that his arrest did not take place at once, but after on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to said Mr. Holder. innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere." thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve appeared upon the scene." which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they Dr. Gregory B. Newby Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can a good hundred miles off by now." passage and a tap at the door. were meetings, and an engagement, which would finally secure the away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. Pope's Court. A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, "'Tut, tut!' he cried. 'This is all quite beside the question. "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, "What, then?" collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just I've been on his track for years and have never set eyes on him but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been "My photograph." material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as becomes even more simple." "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before "I am Mr. Holmes," answered my companion, looking at her with a "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among chestnut. It has been considered artistic. I could not dream of I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not "And did you observe any change in her then?" I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent