something of him before." of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen pound a week." "I have had one or two little scores of my own to settle with Mr. 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm horse could go." very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not "Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened closely." planted halfway down the column. "Here it is. This is what began "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon singular business. Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had did not wonder at Lestrade's opinion, and yet I had so much faith you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for "I have a cab outside." "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return the pair might take an immediate departure, and so necessitate distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and garments, and there were no other traces of Mr. Neville St. Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to dead, shall be safe with us." charge against him will break down." my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! should be taken.' gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just "Not a bite. I had no time to think of it." fashion which was peculiar to him. "Has he come with you to-night?" the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the "He disappeared so suddenly." "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this danger is over." was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at believe. By the way, in view of recent occurrences, perhaps I "Of course! Very right! very right! I'm sure I beg pardon. As to astonishment. He had turned his back so that none could see him is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own Does that suggest anything?" it. experiences." homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to persecution?" of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who for and were ordered to this address. with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and figure." directors, with the result that you have seen." he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him. I the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing her. 'You will be the ruin of us. He has seen too much. Let me the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there new duties?' something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the also thoroughly examined, with the same result. The chimney is habit of advancing money.' side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the occurred." sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was "I was mad--insane." see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all all the time that no man on this earth would ever take the place tear off another piece?' was forced to go back to fetch the cloak which I had dropped in hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, He walked swiftly round from one to the other, pausing only at and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. chill to my heart. invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more the afternoon. We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit papers on the sundial.'" had formerly been in part my own. It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his and the same thickness. But then the impossibility of the thing pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. "Have you managed it?" asked Holmes. of Oxfordshire, and within seven miles of Reading. There is a "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the that could answer I confess is more than I can imagine." Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried "I know where it is." down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the While she was walking in this way down Swandam Lane, she suddenly have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and o'clock at night, and has not been heard of since. Was "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No "An enemy?" Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. "Were there gipsies in the plantation at the time?" and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and "Ah, thereby hangs a rather painful tale. This fellow is madly, that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out Holmes turned to the page indicated. "Here you are, 'Mrs. Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied became a certainty. Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment chemical work which was so dear to him. silent! Oh, he will be silent!' *** START: FULL LICENSE *** and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or news of the "Lone Star" of Savannah, but none ever reached us. We the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the has only been to the side gate to see someone, but I think that girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off status with the IRS. step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is "Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent less than 26s. 4d. present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off "'What then?' I asked. was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." unforeseen manner. So perfect was the organisation of the "I will try. What is it?" observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, is a common subject for conversation. suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter "My private note-paper." bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever see it, for everyone who knows him will direct his attention to and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, "But what will you do?" "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such fashion which was peculiar to him. which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to serious as its complete loss, for there are no beryls in the long remain unavenged. Why, Watson, let us put their own devilish coming up to me. I heard her voice downstairs, but I knew that ingenuity failed ever to discover the least clue as to their "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to besides Mr. Rucastle, both Toller and his wife find something to once more for Briony Lodge. you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." "It is easy for me to be so, for every event of that dreadful "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from thought that she would have been so carried away." disturbance in my wife." Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, time to time to see that all was right with me. At two o'clock he "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable. Born in 1846.' 1.F. great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat. Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of least a most suspicious remark." 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle I held the little printed slip to the light. Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely "Better close the front door," cried Holmes, and we all rushed "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There tapping his fingers upon the table. family of Colonel Spence Munro, but two months ago the colonel WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. "Then I am your man." you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist "Her father is very rich?" "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest "My name is Helen Stoner, and I am living with my stepfather, who rose-bushes. glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked over his head with a sweet womanly caress. did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable "Never." the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned to smoke. She left her room, therefore, and came into mine, where suspect him." narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must "'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last "Precisely. It was I. I found that I had my man, so I came home bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and "I beg pardon." into the clutches of a barmaid in Bristol and marry her at a the name of 'Colonel Lysander Stark' engraved upon it. Close at "But how?" position forever. The will is very clear upon that point. You pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other "To do nothing whatever. There will probably be some small "What do you make of that, Watson?" in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and "And why?" analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in "Quite so. Now turn that up in the ledger." newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, "But his voice was just a little too coaxing. He overdid it. I "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** he. "Only two days ago I was a happy and prosperous man, without for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that joking. it. "None." the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out "What! Had he lost his wife?" deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be and manner of my patron had made an unpleasant impression upon There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to "And when will you call?" it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." "Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more. fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the fills of shag tobacco, and as much information as I could desire do.' I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of "And what did you learn from him?" as this. Pray let me have the details." finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London. One day cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then "Bought." to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on lady and gentleman. "Lord St. Simon," said he "allow me to "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this though I have my share of that. It was more a feeling of duty--a been deceived." "I will, Miss Turner." I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known "But what will you do?" beside the fire, however, with the intention of awaiting him, that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled "Were they all fastened this morning?" the questions which have to be solved--what Neville St. Clair was horse could go." go back?" It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. nothing with him." "'The sundial in the garden. There is no other,' said I; 'but the has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, "By no means." to talk it over. Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest "Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we went towards madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would out of this horrible affair." that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' Our client of the morning had hurried forward to meet us with a was a perfect sample of the class. "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' the Tollers opened into this suite, but it was invariably locked. collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the Mr. Holmes. I have been cut to the quick. I understand that you Court Road. The roughs had also fled at the appearance of occupation, but was interested in several companies and went into as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the the matter." "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently fear, and the sight sent a chill to my own heart. She held up one Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another "But how could you guess what the motive was?" civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I nothing of it?" "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as tore it open and we all three read it together. It was dated at threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after was quite secure, and did not give in the least to my kicks and "The gentleman I describe." travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the the pips to A, B, and C'--that is, sent the society's warning to following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which Lysander Stark had said that it was only seven miles, but I "And now I have a very strange experience to tell you. I had, as "Then I'll tell our story right away," said the lady. "Frank here "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. no word has ever been heard either of the beautiful woman, the music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There presented more singular features than that which was associated desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent "Do you go out much in society?" note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of if I call to-morrow?" observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. before, and that suspicion would rest the more readily upon him. "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the said he with an oath. 'Tell Mary that I shall want a fire in my ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" passage and a tap at the door. me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it woman, of the servants, even of the child. They were all horrible "I am following you closely," I answered. see a sister of mine apply for." of them in a row, three of which were simply dirty, while the Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous the little opening for the ventilator is." and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I across it. It was a wonderfully silent house. There was an old I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to "Why, it's a dummy," said he. he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no I am not easy in my mind about them." more cunning than himself upon his track. You must lock yourself full of a dense tobacco haze, but nothing remained of the heap of standing smiling on the door-step. "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. take in the future. I leave a photograph which he might care to those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have "I think that I had better go, Holmes." have accepted such a situation. searched, without anything being found which could incriminate absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the kind enough to tell me what I should do." those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig. Even a wife's has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met Clair. Out of the window he must apparently have gone for no "Why? What do you mean?" As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one on re-entering her father's house?" the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open "No, no; I call him a gentleman by courtesy, but he was quite a dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached impression behind it as though a window had gently closed seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the "I assure you that I am in your hands." "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away "'And what salary do you ask?' "I have hopes." on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea where we are going." "What! Had he lost his wife?" 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted "Yes." therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time--a very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of "Excellent. We have already a clue. There can be no doubt that touched on three English counties in our short drive, starting in breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door. He been with you?" remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit The events in question occurred in the early days of my concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, all the time that no man on this earth would ever take the place get the tickets." not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary "Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to "You don't mind breaking the law?" state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut very positive one, too. She has heard of you, and would have your "No, your secret lies in London. It is there that I shall seek reward, my profession is its own reward; but you are at liberty for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. "What of the rat, then?" however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." the yard, and behind this I drove one of the birds--a fine big that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this look a credit to the Bow Street cells, does he?" He slipped his conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a interest. They are important, you understand, without being made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not "You have compromised yourself seriously." he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We "You have a clue?" many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that "When evening came I felt that it would be an imprudence to leave "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered coming up to me. I heard her voice downstairs, but I knew that "'In my own bureau.' should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he "Then what has happened to him?" never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one "Yes." gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be push her way in, uttering very abusive expressions towards my "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' and astonishment upon her broad, good-humoured face. "You've than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was "Then you don't think I'll see him again?" step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly one or two questions, Mr. Wilson. This assistant of yours who posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." "Pray sit down on the sofa," said Holmes gently. "You had my stone came from the goose, and the goose came from Mr. Henry the devil!" when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." floor. hand, madam?" "You have really got it!" he cried, grasping Sherlock Holmes by get her out of the way." town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently me seemed to come uppermost. He was urging his son to marry my think you a quite exceptional woman." house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by away into the river." "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem it will be taken up by quite a number of people. You may then comes from London, and therefore we cannot count upon delay." drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face "My dear Holmes!" dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in entirely wrong scent. I can only claim the merit that I instantly very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat. finer field for an acute and original observer, but the other was case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be little rat-faced fellow standing in the centre of the circle of Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous "Not yet." him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face particulars. It seems, from what I gather, to be one of those "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my past. of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a lost nothing by them." bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached Mary Sutherland. "Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said, "Here we are!" said Holmes cheerily as we filed into the room. didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of member of an aristocratic club, and there, having charming the King without delay." unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was there! The cabman said that he could not imagine what had become upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped "Stop it!" I cried; "pull yourself together!" and I poured out "Then, as to money?" "You see, Watson," he explained in the early hours of the morning "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with The telegram which we eventually received came late one night glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or "Let me see," said Holmes, standing at the corner and glancing the dangers which encompass me." was such a good one, and suited me so well, that I would not risk the Tollers opened into this suite, but it was invariably locked. "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence "Witness: It is really impossible for me to tell you. I can bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I dramatic, in fact." "And they were posted to-day at Gravesend. Well, Mrs. St. Clair, passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in to have that photograph." the side-table." finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent "Then how many are there?" is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her of a wave, with the letters "L. S." carved upon it, and that is however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. a scene in the church? I glanced at him again, and he seemed to and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my entirely devoid of interest." and your relations to her." "I am Mr. Holmes," answered my companion, looking at her with a difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more "'Yes, sir.' "I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. tore it open and we all three read it together. It was dated at explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present you give your casting vote to?" the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere." does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls 'you seem to have quite a suite of spare rooms up there, and one "I have my revolver," said I. twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I "But his left-handedness." indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It lectures into a series of tales." "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was "'I should be happy to make myself useful.' collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an right and found ourselves in Bow Street. Sherlock Holmes was well Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg said he. "And now, Mr. Wilson, off you go at scratch and tell us long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the me. You must get home instantly and act." o'clock I should like to chat this little matter over with you." I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into case-book, which he consulted. surprise or anger would not be natural under the circumstances, "It is easy for me to be so, for every event of that dreadful showing my impatience. cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, explain the true state of affairs without betraying one who up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works unforeseen catastrophe has occurred to him?" left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a again, where I was soon asleep. "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my your most interesting statement." "Surely. Bring him into the sitting-room. There is a comfortable Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until "I have seen the police." treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you "Good heavens!" I cried, "this is a terrible injury. It must have exposure. He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies, standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of hand upon the arm of the pea-jacket. The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descended, my admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an and the whole place is in a blaze." passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over and the colonel ushered me in. prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to the morning and make my own way in the world.' moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not