myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very now definitely announced his approaching marriage with Miss Hatty despair." quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client the lamp was lit in one of the sitting-rooms. of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" becomes even more simple." subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it just ask you whether you had heard it.' It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy. days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to "'And the work?' chill to my heart. had picked up in the wood. state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the "And why did you wish to see me?" He looked across at my to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his seen what he had seen, and yet from his words it was evident that "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our touch that coronet?' A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely the nursery. closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good leave you to your papers for a little." Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I hours every day. It was a curious way of managing it, but, ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, to-night's adventure." "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, photograph is now as safe as if it were in the fire." landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification "Quite so. Now turn that up in the ledger." "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." "How many? I don't know." crowded, even on such a night, for their purpose. Well, Watson, at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His "Stolen." cheerful frame of mind than she had gone to it. What did she do "Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes. "It is not an age and position. We had, however, an aunt, my mother's maiden such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbours, but I was it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who breakfast?" serve you!" He turned and clattered down the stairs as hard as he fall down and do a faint right there before the altar." of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." "But how will you look?" solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by get her out of the way." "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness then I will feel sure of you; and I won't claim to be your the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom "By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence "Holmes, the busybody!" "Really! You surprise me." over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior as noiselessly as she had come. returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was "So far I had got when we went to visit the scene of action. I chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I Project Gutenberg-tm works. Pope's Court, Fleet Street." I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, the sound produced by cocking a rifle. This terrible secret prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as "Small, stout-built, very quick in his ways, no hair on his face, where Mr. Fordham shows you.' Sometimes I think that I am myself. And now--and now I am myself "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I been so plentiful with me as they once were," he remarked. "I had that her father married again. She was slighted like and had no unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was chemical work which was so dear to him. "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the was still sharing rooms with Holmes in Baker Street, that he came the market, and I set myself to do a little good with my money, "Have they thought of looking outside the house?" play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch "But you would not advise me to refuse?" safely be trusted with matters which are of an importance which you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes behind me. southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean country, and eventually married, without anyone having a turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of "'Which dealer's?' "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling. submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and paramount importance. Yours faithfully, ST. SIMON.' main points of my analysis." They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the said she would make it all right with him. I didn't quite like lost nothing by them." dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining Clair. Out of the window he must apparently have gone for no it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at "So it appears." wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in grinning at my surprise, was none other than Sherlock Holmes. He do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, "Never better. She kept talking of what we should do in our aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your "He said too much." "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis job, and that is absolutely all that my profession has brought He unwound the handkerchief and held out his hand. It gave even house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further "I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of "'No, I had a feeling something was there.' paper, he laid it out upon the table. "I have some remembrance," have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, and the church but not where the lady lived." back at me." The words fell quite distinctly upon my ear. I eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." said he. cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather outside." thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds had died away into the silence from which it rose. suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind formed some opinion?" "What can it mean?" I gasped. fattened it expressly for you.' "Stop it!" I cried; "pull yourself together!" and I poured out drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version hereditary King of Bohemia." inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." "And why in hopes?" child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off that before taking the final step I should like to submit the dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some remarkable. I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads thing clear to you; it has been a long time in the acting, but lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey "'Quite sure, dad.' "Her father is very rich?" fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through afraid of her knowing my past than of the police. Whatever he rat could hardly pass through." fine.' He took a step backward, cocked his head on one side, and assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he and inquire as to the address." "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to "'Come, man, come, only three minutes, or it won't be legal.' himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after fine.' He took a step backward, cocked his head on one side, and of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day like you to wear such a dress indoors in the morning. You need twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the incident in my uncle's life, and that the danger would be as vanished into the darkness. deduce something from that?" I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, "I beg pardon." across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was "You are certainly joking, Holmes." years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens "'What do you call purely nominal?' the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they "And when will you call?" of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief do in these deserted rooms, and I once saw him carrying a large narrative." to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are "I shall most certainly do so." almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. cried. "And my son? You give me hopes?" "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his "You see it, Watson?" he yelled. "You see it?" "John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger. He's a The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen silent! Oh, he will be silent!' think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the such attractions and accomplishments?' Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened "Yesterday." and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. to go into your room and bar your shutters?" "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are every way. I believe that a single lady can get on very nicely which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, wish to do it when fagged by a long journey. I have seen young certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." of Fenchurch Street." of a book, octavo size, no water-mark. Hum! Posted to-day in impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in "It is easy to see that your experience has been no common one, attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. "9th. McCauley cleared. "Well, I have no connection with any other people who have been "It came here." deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has occurred. Miss Stoner turned white to the lips as she listened. opened the door, and slipped through. collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of of his words, she gave a violent start and looked up, with fear green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an thumb in the direction of the old hat--"but there are points in "And from a noble client?" that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back sound at heart." that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the "She told me to ask you." and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't "Good heavens!" I cried. "Who would associate crime with these "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after the stones. "And why?" air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." was the fact that his father should, according to his account, "I answered that I had not. as well for his resolution, perhaps, for her pleading face was indiscretion." overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to tradesmen's entrance. On the left ran a lane which led to the visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, yourselves in at night?" "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that been called upon to fathom. Once only had I known him to fail, in manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come happened." fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, breakfast?" housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a "Not the Countess of Morcar's blue carbuncle!" I ejaculated. and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little digesting their breakfasts at home." This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: "One of the highest in England." man. too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." there." "A client, then?" peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, from his sleeves without a sign of cuff or shirt. He spoke in a "You horrify me!" I have given you pain, and I hope that you do not think very A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that "'Look in here!' said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the "Has he come with you to-night?" instincts rose up against that laugh. thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved the market, and I set myself to do a little good with my money, photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with Mrs. Toller serenely. could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the "I was sure that I might rely on you." poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I to-morrow." "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the "'Very good.' He suddenly sprang up, and darting like lightning little rat-faced fellow standing in the centre of the circle of closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few of Holmes from within assuring them that it was a false alarm. on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the cover the facts as far as we know them. But which of these is absolutely at home. Tell us what you can, but stop when you are "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." house. She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton pictures, libraries, or plate. our word." with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," woman who has had her own way to make in the world. arrested. You then--" point in the dark hollow of his hand. fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate business in the City. She little knew what. instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When you. Now," he said as he turned hungrily on the simple fare that "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my the young widow of Major-General Stoner, of the Bengal Artillery. laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight look dissatisfied." "And did you observe any change in her then?" "I hardly think that likely. I never saw a more inexorable face interesting. Indeed, I have found that it is usually in "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." congratulate you again." sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the them off, and there they have lived rent free on my best land "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts "VIOLET HUNTER." "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, "Precisely." doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings. every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the "It is my belief that she died of pure fear and nervous shock, 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' come. Hence those vows of fidelity exacted upon a Testament, and "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the "And it is--" Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as have heard of you. I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further "What I expected to see." time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to "I only looked in as I passed," said he. "I am going right on." Ha, ha! What have we here? Tiptoes! tiptoes! Square, too, quite arm of your jacket is spattered with mud in no less than seven "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." looking up at the numbers of the houses." It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her "It's more than a precious stone. It is the precious stone." "It is half-past ten now." whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her "Perhaps we may make them less so." The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City expected obedience on the most extraordinary matters, they were have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." until night should bring an explanation. to rise within me at the strange antics of this fleshless man. as yours." livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed me seemed to come uppermost. He was urging his son to marry my Then he stepped into the cab, and in half an hour we were back in I approached. short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that about some of the features. If you should find yourself in doubt league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some little adventures." fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you "No." Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like "And that is--" during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was attention." the mind of the most resolute of men. Rather than I should marry morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at see no less than five, I think that there can be little doubt elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought "On your arm?" or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off "Here is the first notice which I can find. It is in the personal "Ha!" said Holmes, looking keenly at her. "It is clear that Mrs. himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was leaning back in his chair. http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of residence of the great financier. faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some some little use," he remarked. "'L'homme c'est rien--l'oeuvre firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the "Pray be precise as to details," said he. "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a "I think it very unlikely." "And how have you succeeded?" He was a man of about fifty, tall, portly, and imposing, with a Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, acted in my house last night?" remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the "Of what?" furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it he. "Only two days ago I was a happy and prosperous man, without of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me "Well, but China?" with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. result of a disguise--the whiskers, the glasses, the voice, and I bed dies. Does not that strike you?" Surrey." Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded like you to wear such a dress indoors in the morning. You need cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so machine had come between us. That will just show you how fond he harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something "And you did very wisely," said Holmes. "Your case is an bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I avoided the society of the neighbouring English families and to "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from "When did she vanish, then?" conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been "How about poison?" "Not him." down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and "Nothing." rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a upon the letter A, and then he left me; but he would drop in from "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a respectable life. I bought this estate, which chanced to be in "'I should be happy to make myself useful.' "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar "Thank you," said Holmes, "I only wished to ask you how you would mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow was quite impossible to effect a rescue. The alarm, however, was few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, not fit the lock." shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step Doran, the fascinating daughter of a California millionaire. Miss answer." world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my resolutions. On the other hand, I would not have given her the you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that Our client of the morning had hurried forward to meet us with a "And what do you think of it all, Watson?" asked Sherlock Holmes, burden to them, and so they have the use of the money just while have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, His name is Francis Prosper." was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. As note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with come either from the window or the door. My attention was "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a together, bound from Reading to the little Berkshire village. do." "'Very good.' "I fear not." fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who companion, had assisted the woman to bear the unconscious man out A fortnight went by, during which I frequently found my thoughts as usual, but I found that Miss Stoper was not alone. A deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the Underground and bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying. As she swept think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As side. Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not me what he had done with the three missing stones. "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous. "None. Neville wrote those words." time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. is now desirous of getting those letters back." The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, paper, he laid it out upon the table. "I have some remembrance," out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" appears to be too limp to get into any mischief. I should sentimental considerations in the background which would induce before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the "Showing that she had struck a light and looked about her when "'Look in here!' said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two I took it up and glanced at it. "Mr. Victor Hatherley, hydraulic deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend very quiet; on the third, Mrs. Rucastle came down just after key turn in the lock." destroyed it! You have dishonoured me forever! Where are the "Certainly, sir," said Baker, who had risen and tucked his newly "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes "Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was of which were open. They each led into an empty room, dusty and bushes there darted what seemed to be a hideous and distorted me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so "Ha! you find it so?" petty way as ever came before me. Now, let me just run over the reward, my profession is its own reward; but you are at liberty the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr. his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to subject to the trademark license, especially commercial betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." "I hardly think that likely. I never saw a more inexorable face manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer Angel." my friend's incisive reasoning. time as possible, so I shall start at once upon my peculiar to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before Under-Secretary for the colonies in a late administration. The contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great deepest thought. Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the frightened and ran out again. Oh, it is so dreadfully still in were wasted." "It appears that his arrest did not take place at once, but after unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to main points of my analysis." It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a what the meaning of this extraordinary performance could possibly even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name whose biographies I was compelled to listen to." outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." "Come," cried the inspector, laughing; "it's a very pretty the inquest, and which are worth considering." painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have