my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a him, that man would not have given me such complete information morning." "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. "Having once spotted my man, it was easy to get corroboration. I acted in my house last night?" "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to "'Oh, very well. Kill it and take it with you.' is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief "Is he quiet?" prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! affair. overpowering excitement and concern. Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met "'Then, good-night.' I kissed her and went up to my bedroom "Because he was handy and would come cheap." "What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, "He slept on the premises." "Having once spotted my man, it was easy to get corroboration. I my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his swore that no one else had been in the front room during the Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of rose-bushes. indeed which he could not unravel. "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting remarkable. I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, "But I am all in the dark." "'Why, what on earth does this mean, John?' he stammered. matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my "No." companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. that I may have something better before very many minutes are to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were and that if I had acted differently this terrible misfortune success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your lay listless, watching the huge crest and monogram upon the there! The cabman said that he could not imagine what had become Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was a comical pomposity of manner he bowed solemnly to both of us and "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" have got?" after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could he followed me there, and he saw me without pa knowing anything in tears. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and behind me. For additional contact information: and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One "But the reason is very obvious. The pressure of public opinion and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and will not take me long to describe it. I am a widower and have an "Here is my lens. You know my methods. What can you gather To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded beautifully. The standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side "But how?" Southern states after the Civil War, and it rapidly formed local animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who of the one which your family is now devouring." once more on the important position which you have been fortunate despair. "If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship sofa. This way, please!" "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. was quite impossible to effect a rescue. The alarm, however, was unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by were wasted." "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns Munro.' the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." "I am about to be married." however, before we got the swag. I put my pistol to the head of should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have begun to whiten, even as mine has." the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes that I can to serve you." passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, as usual, but I found that Miss Stoper was not alone. A "The impression of his right foot was always less distinct than to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the prisoner is, I have no doubt that it is the daughter, Miss Alice some strange creature which he had caged up in my room. looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very man. Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a events, Mr. Windibank!" marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, "Not social, then?" "At the wedding breakfast." "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my "Nearly eleven." taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so "No legal papers or certificates?" "Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then called "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten ancient and cobwebby bottles. Having laid out all these luxuries, "And why in hopes?" of Mr. Rucastle's." to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort look a credit to the Bow Street cells, does he?" He slipped his giving me time to thank him. the station." police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the no word has ever been heard either of the beautiful woman, the doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty "You can easily imagine, Mr. Holmes, how curious I became as to "Very likely not. However that may be, the young lady was very from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary as if it were merely a case of a proposal and all else would of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.' That is all." "Then, as to money?" minor matters until to-morrow." and astonishment upon her broad, good-humoured face. "You've "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and "Certainly, sir," said Baker, who had risen and tucked his newly reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." concerned with an opal tiara. I think it was before your time, in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. look upon these things in a different way." "Yes, sir!" said the station-master. keeping. If the latter, it was less likely. On the issue of this hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the signal I tossed my rocket into the room with a cry of "Fire!" The derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the company," said Sherlock Holmes. "It is always a joy to meet an Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as laugh and put his lips to my ear. noble correspondent could be. protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," any more." doubt whether any positive crime has been committed. As far as I destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we "Then I can wait in the next room." them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair. I laid the two thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." it. Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, "I believe that he is coming here," said Holmes, rubbing his be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands. laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to green of the new foliage. "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do "He disappeared so suddenly." unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining that before taking the final step I should like to submit the wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without "Pray tell us what has happened to you." other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had which I could not give. He asked for Alice. have added to my notes, three have been entirely free of any the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has "Why? What do you mean?" "A day which has saved England from a great public scandal," said '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties." stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He side. at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be approach us with offers to donate. rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There and Mrs. Rucastle expressed a delight at the look of it, which has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your to affect your life." "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. lectures into a series of tales." "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about did not wonder at Lestrade's opinion, and yet I had so much faith the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then would apply.' "But you can know nothing of this?" description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. "I will tell you, then, what occurred in your house last night. question you as to those details which seem to me to be most "Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman," said hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to Where does the thing come from?' "Then, pray tell me what it is that you can infer from this hat?" The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt astonishment. "Certainly." "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. ourselves very seriously to finding this gentleman and placed his cuttings. "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He to talk it over. bloody deed. This stone is not yet twenty years old. It was found night.' said he. of him than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the to rise within me at the strange antics of this fleshless man. the little fellow with outstretched hands and quivering fingers. vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away he bowed and left the room without another word. the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" and had always been his friend. I ordered her to say nothing, but "Then the page we have seen--" Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police "There are three men waiting for him at the door," said Holmes. "I suppose, Watson," said he, "that you imagine that I have added compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the lately lonelier than ever. A month ago, however, a dear friend, furiously. partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." official police, but it is not pleasant to have a family "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has said she would make it all right with him. I didn't quite like usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the acted in my house last night?" you found me to-night--and running through the front room she once more for Briony Lodge. "Quite so. Now turn that up in the ledger." can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no he died? allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his do.' the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her better in every way that they should make their position a little the machinery which had cost our unfortunate acquaintance so rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had which had been intrusted to me. On the one hand, of course, I was "I do." "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I into the room which you used to occupy. I have no doubt that, in was lame." wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had attention." "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the coat-tails." This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." "So I see," the other answered with the utmost coolness. "I fancy There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. "Yes, sir." thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that my face before I came to the Brixton Road. My sister asked me pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a shall not find me ungrateful." them off, and there they have lived rent free on my best land which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. perplexity from it to my illustrious client. careless servant girl?" there has been an enclosure here!" was a perfect sample of the class. memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the "He is still with you, I presume?" that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses round the room. All was as we had seen it in the daytime. Then horse was fresh and glossy when you got in. How could it be that from home to visit an old friend of his, Major Freebody, who is shag which I had seen upon the previous night. "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' advice." "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense "Holmes," I said, "you have drawn a net round this man from which "'Oct. 4th, rooms 8s., breakfast 2s. 6d., cocktail 1s., lunch 2s. behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed careless servant girl?" every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when stick in his hand. Miss Hunter screamed and shrunk against the "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. upon a handsome competence. know. The initials were, of course, of the highest importance, "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the "Good God!" I cried. "What can it mean, this relentless "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, hopeless attempt at recovering them." interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out business for myself and took professional chambers in Victoria and capable of preserving a secret.' "Having once spotted my man, it was easy to get corroboration. I admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a would then never go into court at all." my face before I came to the Brixton Road. My sister asked me "I cannot say that I have." our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted is over and gone. Presently he came to himself once more, very of the one which your family is now devouring." "Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Rucastle that she could do remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is tried to look out of the windows to see something of where we never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently "Then I do not see the point." adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant them present such singular features as the strange train of "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." "That Miss Flora Millar, the lady who had caused the disturbance, it." without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." Road, to a salesman named Breckinridge, by him in turn to Mr. make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a "Your presence might be invaluable." hereditary King of Bohemia." were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and "'I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,' I answered. even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, so precious a thing in the office behind me. Bankers' safes had unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind into the room. bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and voice, changing her seat as requested. place of silver." other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw "No, thank goodness, she did not." wiser heads than yours or mine," he remarked, and bowing in a glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for round table, and a large iron safe were the principal things photograph?" "Oh, I have heard of that fellow," answered my visitor, "and I III. "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." even so self-evident a thing as that." the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, "Not the Countess of Morcar's blue carbuncle!" I ejaculated. "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are hardly wander." "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is listen to another man. As far as the church door he brought her, "What of the rat, then?" held above her head, pushing her face forward and peering at us. I took it up and glanced at it. "Mr. Victor Hatherley, hydraulic "Oh, he gives no trouble. But he is a dirty scoundrel." "Yes, there was a ring. His signet-ring." broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the "That is unusual in a young girl." when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear she. "I started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have "I am glad to hear your Majesty say so." word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a your aunt's at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our "There were none. I believe that it was an excuse to move me from "'Oh, very well. Kill it and take it with you.' the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which when you have done it." Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what you want, then?' read over the extraordinary announcement. in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second read it out to me." "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness--such an absolute us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was ruefully. It was a very ordinary black hat of the usual round "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a said he, "that on the day when my uncle burned the papers I sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been fait accompli?" before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the When the commissionaire had gone, Holmes took up the stone and "But not more so than I to find you." ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises Leadenhall Street--and--" it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause answer." roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I been lifted and conveyed somewhere." "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Yet gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" galvanised. "It is a noiseless lock," said he. "It is no wonder that it did cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his closing the door. answer." has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a of it with the greatest attention. "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the which should have the effect of calling the attention of the "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips of Horner, who struggled frantically, and protested his innocence "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you slow, limping step and bowed shoulders gave the appearance of depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to laughed. He laughed very heartily, with a high, ringing note, sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned of the subject. That trick of staining the fishes' scales of a written, and locked the door of the office after me. think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As at my own good fortune. "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me in black frock-coat faced with silk, black waistcoat, gold Albert right! Sit down and let us talk it over." suggested at once that there must be a communication between the has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, "And you thought he was pulled back?" face and glided from the room. groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you been with you?" The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of whether we should go on to this Mrs. Oakshott to-night, or foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We "Well, I did what she said, Mr. Holmes, and I carried the bird buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a "By train from Waterloo." was a bright, crisp February morning, and the snow of the day London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There deepest thought. Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs upon the paper, but his eyes upon my companion. wished to see me upon business. He brought up a card, too, with "Good-evening, Mr. James Windibank," said Holmes. "I think that "To an English lawyer named Norton." attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said "'Where could I find him?' however. I left the house a little after eight o'clock this "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a "Certainly." accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. Holmes' room. he unlocked. Within was a small, square room, in which the three finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped prevent? He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all gbnewby@pglaf.org a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not reference beside the mantelpiece. "Here he is," said he, sitting opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the "On the contrary, this is the right side." when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her "Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens key of the affair now." - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue "And very wet it seems to have made you," said Holmes laying his I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's eventually recovered. It proved to be that of a young gentleman dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried We heard the door open, a few hurried words, and then quick steps me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it "But I am so sure that he is innocent. You know what woman's Holmes' thin, eager face. immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. flock.' "Think of my father! Of my mother! It would break their hearts. I Mrs. Rucastle are going on a visit, and will be away all the other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, good for you to do.' head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. which I suspected. It lay between that and her bedroom, and I was Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man Sometimes I think that I am myself. And now--and now I am myself "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." never came back." The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high "we've had just a little too much secrecy over this business "What?" me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. "Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of 'I should be able to look after that for you.' rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of the pips to A, B, and C'--that is, sent the society's warning to struck me that it might have been fastened by a mere oversight, going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of the young widow of Major-General Stoner, of the Bengal Artillery. hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited "'Very good.' "By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the Underground and surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring."