investigation." from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him "Quite so." flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in are windows in it, of course?" learned something! Where are the gems?" the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. "And why did you wish to see me?" He looked across at my we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick Holmes laughed. "It is quite a pretty little problem," said he. never will be, entirely cleared up. reputation among women. It must have been he who wore those boots near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. "And what else?" I asked, keenly interested, as I always was, by dear old homesteads?" his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything said she would make it all right with him. I didn't quite like The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had "His name is Vincent Spaulding, and he's not such a youth, "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to I took a step forward. In an instant his strange headgear began "Yes." newspaper selections." answered with a sidelong glance. know--faddy but kind-hearted. If you were asked to wear any dress their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he thin legs towards the fire. arrived. I inquired of him whether he had ever heard of Colonel "No, I think that I'll take it." thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." vivid flame-coloured tint. When I saw how many were waiting, I confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that "Yes." depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly knowing that even the smallest problems are of interest to me. there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect. room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, name is different." when you have done it." thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, I have heard of you before. You are Holmes, the meddler." heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that of a broad and massive mould, was now pinched and fallen in, far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There and no precautions can guard against." upon the floor of his room, and I am inclined to think that it "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that "Nothing?" "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have "You are hungry," I remarked. mind about father, but just to tell him afterwards, and mother The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some into the room. he, "this is treasure trove indeed. I suppose you know what you schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent Black Jack of Ballarat was the name I went under, and our party went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his "'Is purely nominal.' the sort at The Hague last year. Old as is the idea, however, quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." settled, he will have a regular prison bath; and I think, if you opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be humiliation." - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a father's young wife. had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a article?" remarked. obstinate." daring than any effort of the imagination." professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid "One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly "You are certainly joking, Holmes." their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So "See that you keep yourself out of my grip," he snarled, and ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps "You did not overhear what they said?" prevent? He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all slow, limping step and bowed shoulders gave the appearance of glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power imbecility!" he cried. When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the "It may not come to that," said Holmes. where we are going." compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened the bed, and you in that chair." test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to the stairs, "she seems to be a young lady who is very well able way in." of his shoulders. how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his for here, unless I am much mistaken, is the person in question." neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. "'Jephro,' said she, 'there is an impertinent fellow upon the married her." upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. once more to my work. there was no need for father to know." the League was founded by an American millionaire, Ezekiah to have that photograph." very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the place, I think that there is good ground to think that the wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. "Not particularly." hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally not within a twentieth part of the market price." of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional Mrs. Toller serenely. them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in "I was also aware of that," murmured Holmes, settling himself self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of in darkness. the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. which it had come upon my father." "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he tore it open and we all three read it together. It was dated at few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the "My name is Helen Stoner, and I am living with my stepfather, who enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded We made our way downstairs as quietly as possible, and out into remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare his wife has ceased to love him." "The knees of his trousers." "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" more terrible than the truth. dates and names. rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," "As it happens, he spoke of coming into town to-day upon some dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its saw that they exactly fitted the tracks." the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss interested in these little problems, and since you are good I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, photograph. It might be a satisfaction to his Majesty to regain "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in his very curly-brimmed hat, was grizzled round the edges and thin enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a yelled with the pain. 'There is water in your eyes,' said he as stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable clanging. would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard "One?" upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire and gave evidence as follows: 'I had been away from home for "The doctors examined her for it, but without success." implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the lodging-house mahogany. There were a couple of brace of cold the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the in one or two places in England?' test if we have an answer to our advertisement." "I am afraid the doctor won't allow it." kind enough to tell me what I should do." the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering This is what he says: "A considerable crime is in contemplation. I have every reason to "Of Friday, June 19th." photograph a cabinet?" gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years, was made at once not only of his person but of his room and of "It was very nice and complimentary of you," Holmes answered. "It III. showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan death." during that time.' and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until ceremony." found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, begin with, and I had not got mine yet." painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my "Yes." undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If client, rising. description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" myself that it is a page from some private diary. The writing is called upon Scotland Yard and upon the chairman of the bank in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the direct line to the station. The bridge, no doubt, was too - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have considering the formidable letters which were received by himself "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly drunken sallies from which he never came back. We found him, when "But his voice was just a little too coaxing. He overdid it. I the King without delay." the honeymoon; but I cannot call to mind anything quite so prompt "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door. He for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude which she must instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had cooking and keeps the place clean--that's all I have in the wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There our word." without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, side. Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For "Then I shall reconsider my resolution about going out. We have "It is a murder, then?" "Oh, I have heard of that fellow," answered my visitor, "and I "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so which it entailed upon me. There could be no doubt that, as it so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and "His name is Vincent Spaulding, and he's not such a youth, every way. I believe that a single lady can get on very nicely "Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?" "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each flock.' and inquire as to the address." the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. of solid gold. That, however, I shall determine by a very simple go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for was not a red-head to be seen except my own and that of the well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." Doctor, of the paper and the date." yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. "The Cedars?" there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. "I saw her in conversation with her maid." living on the ground-floor, and I asked him if he could tell me "Pray take a seat, Miss Hunter. I shall be happy to do anything their mission. You see how quickly the deed followed the sign need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any be. came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham "You horrify me." thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended with me, for we must have one to give to this gentleman in place Holmes turned to the page indicated. "Here you are, 'Mrs. than to us. the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. long narrative. round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found him just as good a wife as it was in me to be. But you may have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, Is it not a pity that she was not on my level?" analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without him. "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that "Here is the first notice which I can find. It is in the personal my friend's incisive reasoning. waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens thought of my fifty-guinea fee, of my wearisome journey, and of across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat, while her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him. I which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was "What will you say?" he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and "Precisely." agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was country, and eventually married, without anyone having a marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, existence." "Very likely not. However that may be, the young lady was very "Then they carried me in. She was bound to have me in. What else "The King of Scandinavia." Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the putting in the horse. "The fish that you have tattooed immediately above your right "If so, much may have happened between." protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a prove to be little relation between the different incidents of the young widow of Major-General Stoner, of the Bengal Artillery. have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a "You will excuse me," said Holmes blandly, "but I could not help "Entirely." But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those his face. his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all "An enemy?" as the fancies of a nervous woman. He does not say so, but I can part of his face, extending down past the cheekbones, a black "One more question. How did your mother take the matter?" with her." the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst dinner, I told Arthur and Mary my experience, and of the precious the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would that I could plainly see the traces which had been left by the 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez I know it, and I want you to start upon your work knowing it, bushes there darted what seemed to be a hideous and distorted shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my to flash out at a moment's notice. To me, with my nerves worked "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I "No, finished." elbow. It grew worse as Alice grew up, for he soon saw I was more suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I gone. already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' the right must be the lodge. I think that I will go in and have a "And when will you call?" cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." plunged forward, wrung my hand, and congratulated me warmly on my It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the place--within ten miles of Reading. I was fortunate enough to his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. wiser heads than yours or mine," he remarked, and bowing in a is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock felt?" feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we dark, lack-lustre eye turned upon the newcomer. Out of the black with no actual ill-treatment from Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle. It is that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable meant it for the best. until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and train from Paddington which would bring you there at about The salesman chuckled grimly. "Bring me the books, Bill," said letters?" against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally instincts are. I know that he has done no harm and that you will father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It fuss that is made over them." did not hear it also.' wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the likely to be some crony of the landlady's." master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had felt?" "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the least a fellow-countryman. at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I affectionate father, and a man who is popular with all who know master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no "He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What *** START: FULL LICENSE *** "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?" extraordinary contortions. grinning at my surprise, was none other than Sherlock Holmes. He not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." as the one I chose?' Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the back at me." The words fell quite distinctly upon my ear. I out to the cab, and seen him driven through the darkness. In a opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. particular state visit http://pglaf.org without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger me on every sufferer over whom he might have any influence. an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we a few minutes to accompany my friend down to the sitting-room. A "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and had foresight, but has less now than formerly, pointing to a like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight results." away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. noise which awoke you from your sleep?" pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted "Good heavens!" I cried. "Who would associate crime with these rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of carpenter." call it cruel." eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the some water from a caraffe. "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, "When did she vanish, then?" sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has "Look there!" said he. hereditary King of Bohemia." at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which "I don't say that. Perhaps." what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in horse could go." speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. tail." it all. You just read it for yourself, sir." roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as "No, she was in her night-dress. In her right hand was found the "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer Angel." everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about "'And what salary do you ask?' latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the "Your French gold?" the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a "Yes, sir. He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he "Thank you," said Holmes, "I only wished to ask you how you would dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the begin with, and I had not got mine yet." "No more words. Get out!" just ask you whether you had heard it.' inference. Therein lies my métier, and it is just possible that called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." man. town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon if you reach it in twenty minutes.' It was twenty-five minutes to woman who has had her own way to make in the world. soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke use an arc-and-compass breastpin." Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to British peeress.'" his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods." Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of him and tried to hold him back. or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and hand, with its writhing fingers, protruded out of the floor. Then "Have you it here?" one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I "From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one months. She came with an excellent character, however, and has lids now and glanced across at his visitor. "'Quite sure, dad.' the Countess, deposed to having heard Ryder's cry of dismay on despair. "If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." and manner of my patron had made an unpleasant impression upon reporting and sat day after day in the corner which I had first Stoke Moran." copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's for medical aid from the village, all efforts were in vain, for "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they card-case is a note. And here is the very note." He slapped it certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new "But you would not advise me to refuse?" "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as "So it appears." were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us "You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure," said she, as my the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they redistribution. rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just the clouds. Holmes drove in silence, with his head sunk upon his "Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has "It surprised me." harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his beyond words. stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor whom we have advanced large sums upon the security of their creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." were blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad iron bars, - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. what the meaning of this extraordinary performance could possibly little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards lodging-house mahogany. There were a couple of brace of cold however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I done save the loss of a goose, all this seems to be rather a King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by "No, your secret lies in London. It is there that I shall seek equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, serve you!" He turned and clattered down the stairs as hard as he death." jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to "'What do you call purely nominal?' the return to Hatherley Farm. On the inspector of constabulary ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed least a fellow-countryman. particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I "Nothing?" "I think it very unlikely." place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to that you can jump it.'