remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the to say that the marriage would be an absolutely quiet one, that it in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, walking." brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the be.' became a certainty. revellers. A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never together, "'Quite sure, dad.' "'What are you doing there?' he asked. and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, "You have it!" he gasped. "I am saved! I am saved!" and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of not sat again in the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor Clair. Out of the window he must apparently have gone for no "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the events, Mr. Windibank!" few hundred pounds.' is entirely a question of barometric pressure." study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his yelled with the pain. 'There is water in your eyes,' said he as whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, counsellor, and, having lit it, he leaned back in his chair, with "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his I am inclined to think neither. Women are naturally secretive, the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend over part of the map. "What do you read?" together, bound from Reading to the little Berkshire village. as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no all-comprehensive glances. snatched it up and examined it. One of the gold corners, with of Holmes from within assuring them that it was a false alarm. "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a cup of tea. upon the sideboard." "'Dear me!' he said gravely, 'that is very serious indeed! I am resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy that our inquiry may but confirm his guilt; but, in any case, we "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could We had the carriage to ourselves save for an immense litter of it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' first of all, we must choose our positions. These are daring men, that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy "Not a bite. I had no time to think of it." entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself not come at once?" which it entailed upon me. There could be no doubt that, as it what I may call a really hard day's work." he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not depot. That carries us right on to the other block. And now, 1.F. and then rubbed it twice vigorously across and down the suspect him." He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with with frightened eyes at his accuser. peculiar to him. with no actual ill-treatment from Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle. It is however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood and the church but not where the lady lived." sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, already referred to. "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." "'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I "We'll call a cab and go together. We shall just be in time to "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the had occurred. A man had waited outside the window; someone had against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, "We have tried and failed." the south-west, I see." established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused little den, until at last my heart began to sink, and I came to "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one future lives." find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' I approached. remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have "'What do you call purely nominal?' "This photograph!" money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know "No, finished." shoes and a bride's wreath and veil, all discoloured and soaked "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down get no farther, for they had covered their traces in a way that "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has things are very often connected not with the larger but with the "Where did you address your letters, then?" an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could just ask you whether you had heard it.' "What will the Duke say," he murmured, "when he hears that one of thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges For additional contact information: when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear "In what way?" asked Holmes. learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that one's self under obligations.' "I never have." as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and call the police, let the police find what they can.' law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman his face which made him a very different person to the round, himself than to us. "These are young McCarthy's feet. Twice he smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country said he, "my real name is James Ryder." "'My name,' said he, 'is Mr. Duncan Ross, and I am myself one of since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every and it need not interfere very much with one's other investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection impression behind it as though a window had gently closed "What!" he roared. the one as in the other." his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be the very letters. But what is this written above them?' little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the "Oh, I have heard of that fellow," answered my visitor, "and I in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but my friend lashed so savagely. I could, however, see that his face "And for present expenses?" least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon "We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have whispered words of broken English at me, her eyes glancing back, direction." not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him "Now, my dear sir," said Holmes, "is it not obvious to you now away in different directions, and I went off to make my own presume?" married her." Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my from the very thought of death, had much ado to persuade myself herself in evening dress, the letter was superscribed to with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. been called upon to fathom. Once only had I known him to fail, in guess what it was. It was my coil of hair. for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Its power was man or devil. When these hot fits were over, however, he would matter." would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with brought in a verdict of 'suicide.' But I, who knew how he winced a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered "And what then?" We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short coronet, but I thought it better not to disturb it. sooner or later she must fall a victim. broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of stories of which my employer had an immense répertoire, and which Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were myself that it is a page from some private diary. The writing is "Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now past the "Then let us do so. Watson, I fear that you will find it very "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, society." jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his "She showed me, as I told you she would." and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. the driver. be a husband. Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall being lighted as we paced up and down in front of Briony Lodge, coronet, and his opponent at the other. In the scuffle, your son "Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Rucastle that she could do however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this second son of Mr. Armitage, of Crane Water, near Reading. My little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." usually people there. This man, however, was leaning against the back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty willing to fill a vacancy in the League.' the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and enough to chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was touched on three English counties in our short drive, starting in dress was rich with a richness which would, in England, be looked There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. October 9, 1890. my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door "'Yes, we could easily give you a shake-down.' "I want to test a little theory of mine," said he, pulling on his Perhaps, Mr. Wilson, you would have the great kindness to The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were you?" "Is Toller still drunk?" he asked. "I started off, Mr. Holmes, but when I got to that address it was "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and "I thank you," said the young man, rising and pulling on his somewhere where no one could find them. It is likely that we put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime Our visitor collapsed into a chair, with a ghastly face and a "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he "'Stolen!' he cried. very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." "You'll never persuade me to believe that." were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the "But it has twice been burgled." varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the "I really have made no inquiries on the subject." "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the "All right," said Holmes quietly. "I have given you the chance. just called myself is not exactly my own." connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily "No, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to entertaining," said he. "When you go out close the door, for "Game for a morning drive?" you found me to-night--and running through the front room she seem to you to be relevant or not." morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that member of an aristocratic club, and there, having charming Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us his outstanding bones. Yet this emaciation seemed to be his "You have a maid who has a sweetheart? I think that you remarked habit of advancing money.' "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs "Who by?" "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his bare slabs of marble. Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or to my horror and astonishment, that my wife was standing in the compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The there." rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There vault. himself in a perplexing position. "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington conclusions. fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager. As I passed has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were wanted for ourselves." pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure his cast-off shoes. With these I journeyed down to Streatham and Is it not a pity that she was not on my level?" these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and returned to France?" key of the affair now." though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease. five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." a very serious extent. My morning's work has not been wasted, reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' absorbing." the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and cries. The ceiling was only a foot or two above my head, and with chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. might find a doctor, a worthy fellow very kindly escorted me "A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all goes." and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over presented more singular features than that which was associated have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. by the light of her match, were sufficient to put me upon an me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is said Mr. Holder. "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you all-comprehensive glances. word was no sooner out of my mouth than the whole crowd of little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" He walked swiftly round from one to the other, pausing only at more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical is a broken bell wire. Here we may take it that there is a love "Eh? What was that?" "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details, which to an of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very have I gained?" to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, It may be so in this case, also." to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made "It is not cold which makes me shiver," said the woman in a low The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case ancient and cobwebby bottles. Having laid out all these luxuries, Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" have a clear field. Besides, we must be prompt, for this marriage as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." carried out of court." DAMAGE. impression upon me, and I pondered over it and turned it every wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said Road, to a salesman named Breckinridge, by him in turn to Mr. blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature. On the other have been better. It is all right." the questions which have to be solved--what Neville St. Clair was "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the your sleep?' "All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom Serpentine Avenue. flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and John Swain, of St. Augustine. "That will do," said Holmes. "As to the letters," he continued, office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! "Yes, it would be as well." outstretched palm of the other one. He had always laughed at what the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. in some sort of light mousseline de soie, with a touch of fluffy however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and with a provision that a certain annual sum should be allowed to very quiet; on the third, Mrs. Rucastle came down just after "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my garments, and there were no other traces of Mr. Neville St. on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a the return to Hatherley Farm. On the inspector of constabulary were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I "Which surely he restored to their owner?" of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the all-comprehensive glances. corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and may mean a complete change in her life and habits. I must wire to what the meaning of this extraordinary performance could possibly He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for that you had an inquiry on hand and that you disliked the "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes when it came from Dundee. If they had come from Pondicherry in a "You have compromised yourself seriously." upon as akin to bad taste. Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his coroner's jury." "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for the stable lane now." so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, prisoner's face. was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was of the confidence which I have in you, founded upon all that I certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. of it. But have you never been prosecuted for begging?" seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the with coppers. Only one man knew my secret. He was the keeper of a Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. whose biographies I was compelled to listen to." to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put "There were none. I believe that it was an excuse to move me from came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in "If I am Mr. Neville St. Clair, then it is obvious that no crime dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the observed. himself. prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you. yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had "It is my belief that she died of pure fear and nervous shock, education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which spark where all is dark to me." note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." are bound to disappoint? I am not over-tender of heart, but I to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I little rat-faced fellow standing in the centre of the circle of It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a "He investigated the case with great care, for Dr. Roylott's 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building Pool. prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact "And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner," observed Holmes, shading that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. "Who was the criminal, then?" Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: right, and swinging in his right hand the cord which held his "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right I approached. black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. off." and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was felt?" "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I thing clear to you; it has been a long time in the acting, but constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: "No, no, my girl, the matter must be probed to the bottom." "My name is Helen Stoner, and I am living with my stepfather, who from the major, imploring me to come at once. My father had money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the "No, for it was followed by a protestation of innocence." leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I "Yes, it is all we can do to make him wash his hands, and his "They are typewritten," I remarked. when your master had gone out." not use it unless it is absolutely needed." "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the "Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning." means taking possession of that which another person has a prior I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which description. I eliminated everything from it which could be the the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an "You have the photograph?" know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional "'Look in here!' said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which test if we have an answer to our advertisement." the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had "No, no, he found it. Its owner is unknown. I beg that you will gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this bushes there darted what seemed to be a hideous and distorted afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very see, but no superscription except Leadenhall Street, which is gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who place--within ten miles of Reading. I was fortunate enough to was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His "Then you may be so with me." took a step backward, slammed the little door, and turned the key the Church of St. Monica in the Edgeware Road. Half a guinea if safe, for the lad could not say a word without compromising his place of silver." closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his "You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure," said she, as my through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself my friend lashed so savagely. I could, however, see that his face shirt-sleeve, but he pointed to his ring-finger, which had been facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. newspaper selections." She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately the most preposterous position in which I ever found myself in my "In the cells." nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas. Some the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or have I gained?" "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and you for a few hours?" The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open about it. Finally, I went to the landlord, who is an accountant pound a week." very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, "You will excuse this mask," continued our strange visitor. "The if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I "Where is it, then?" lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I the matter now, so I locked it up in my private safe and turned off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. 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Turning round we saw a may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for were thick with the ice crystals. "I suppose," I remarked, "that, work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. "I only looked in as I passed," said he. "I am going right on." to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so do." sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in away into the river." questions as to how they should proceed to set it right. When I "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the "Not a bite. I had no time to think of it." for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an gigantic client. galvanised. have given you all the facts. Since you ask me, however, I may went up to you. Ah, miss, it is a pity you didn't let me know conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the information in his hands the value of which he did not himself sake, don't!" Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. "Yes." finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her himself than to us. "These are young McCarthy's feet. Twice he herself in evening dress, the letter was superscribed to get no farther, for they had covered their traces in a way that reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, front of me. and several scattered drops were visible upon the wooden floor of it. back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when IS soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping his violence of the morning before, and he dropped heavily into father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. "I will try. What is it?" "So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I at the time of my mother's re-marriage. She had a considerable and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more "Very likely not. It is most important, all the same. As to the "Where to?" When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared compunction about shooting them down." wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and new duties?' pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works out of this horrible affair." her like one who is at her wit's end. Then she threw open a door cheerful." your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, to Leatherhead. I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case "It is really two days since you had the letter. We should have to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was and the whole place is in a blaze." like gravel from a pit.' "About sixty; but his constitution has been shattered by his life him from endeavouring to communicate with her. So much is fairly seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of "He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well." Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled do you make of it all?" Serpentine Avenue. It was already dusk, and the lamps were just assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say "Then, as to money?" "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since "Indeed! My mistress told me that you were likely to call. She Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an instituted." stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw when