his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling only touch the interest." TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a "What is it?" pressing in one house as in another. "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled think, you have already met." its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed "Excellent. We have already a clue. There can be no doubt that envelope upon the table and wondering lazily who my friend's dangerous men in England--a ruined gambler, an absolutely were new raised from a basin. disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." as usual, but I found that Miss Stoper was not alone. A whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the despair." overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall I have it here in my museum." "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at "Yes, the wine-cellar." his face. about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from system of imprisonment?" His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone think that he is innocent?" very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not will take you up to see the machine.' heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of "'Ample.' settled, he will have a regular prison bath; and I think, if you distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and "Well, there are some on the stall with the gas-flare." shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. common-looking person. I hardly noticed his appearance. But considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no settled his bill at one of the most select London hotels." a Lascar, was well paid by me for his rooms, so that I knew that wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation "I am still in the dark." bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. Sherlock Holmes was wrong in his conjecture, however, for there brave and sensible girl, Miss Hunter. Do you think that you could and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a as usual, but I found that Miss Stoper was not alone. A his room. He drank a great deal of brandy and smoked very purpose equally well?" where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." "Then he might have called to you?" earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he him and tried to hold him back. was lame." deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is It was not in front. Then I rang the bell, and, as I hoped, the built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then was peeling off the walls, and the damp was breaking through in took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his "I promise," said Holmes. "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I had feared to find. It was Neville St. Clair's coat, and not one of them." passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which servant-maids--joined in a general shriek of "Fire!" Thick clouds Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to departure, to the effect that a small parcel of considerable secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord "When did she vanish, then?" well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that "Well?" at home. the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that tightly behind him. cigars in their mouths. came in, but when I came down to breakfast in the morning there "The decline of his fortunes, then?" sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to tear off another piece?' Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect there were so many in the whole country as were brought together make me his representative both with the servants and with the entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. the address that was given us in the advertisement. walking." have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further the capture of mice, little birds, and insects. But I would you are threatened by a very real and imminent danger. How do you it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search very old mansion. cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly fled together." heart turned to water, for there was no sign of the stone, and I think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely bend of the knees as he walked. His hair, too, as he swept off "My own seal." "She walked into the breakfast-room." ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and "She walked into the breakfast-room." dragged with my nails at the lock. I implored the colonel to let chair. "'Oh,' says she, 'we've set yours aside for you--Jem's bird, we manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the writing, and yet I know it well." black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you "I am armed." wiser heads than yours or mine," he remarked, and bowing in a London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. vanished into the darkness. shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, "I am to be neutral?" "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The herself in evening dress, the letter was superscribed to "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered settled, he will have a regular prison bath; and I think, if you a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check that before taking the final step I should like to submit the said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy as we have been able to ascertain, amount to 88 pounds 10s., while beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching and the whole place is in a blaze." "My stepfather's business papers." success. was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. As questioning gaze, and then, pressing my hand in a cold, dank all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you comes. Sit down in that armchair, Doctor, and give us your best How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a This is what he says: was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir will be renamed. abuse your patience, there came a night when he made one of those your co-operation." James Windibank. Voilà tout!" that he will be back before evening." business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I to-night?" I asked. "I cannot tell." "I am sure." goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan suspect him." John Swain, of St. Augustine. from you?" carpenter." here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have grinning at my surprise, was none other than Sherlock Holmes. He yards of it?' ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were "You will excuse my calling so late," she began, and then, he unlocked. Within was a small, square room, in which the three key turn in the lock." rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." with me, for we must have one to give to this gentleman in place "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be "Very. But will he see it?" which we had just quitted. great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. the nursery. for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. carried out of court." "And did you observe any change in her then?" if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry overstrung nerves failed me suddenly, and I turned and ran--ran "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." morning." "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his very different level to your Majesty," said Holmes coldly. "I am luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent street, with her eyes fixed full upon me. I gave a cry of possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." "The letter arrived on March 10, 1883. His death was seven weeks the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the "I came to find a friend." absolutely innocent man, who had no idea that the bird which he coming to the bed. The idea of a snake instantly occurred to me, "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with and the church but not where the lady lived." "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to "In which, sir?" man. I know him from the photograph." Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if "But it needs a great deal of supplementing before anyone could which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, "No bad?" prison!" on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted "Ha! that was unfortunate. Your wedding was arranged, then, for The question was hardly out of my mouth, and Holmes had not yet "'Entirely.' owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make characteristic defects. The same post brought me a letter from unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to my secret was safe in his possession. why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more "for the facts are quite recent, and the matter struck me as do." me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had Even when she was just a baby her wee hand seemed to lead me down of." building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some "You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we chill to my heart. "Pray be precise as to details," said he. "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not business came to an end." daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable of a light. might find a doctor, a worthy fellow very kindly escorted me considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." know that the truth is known." eyes had regained their fire, and there, sitting by the fire and done what I asked you, Jones?" distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend first of all, we must choose our positions. These are daring men, shapeless pulp. I threw myself, screaming, against the door, and or in danger--" plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. tassel actually lying upon the pillow. villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and disposition. During all the years that he lived at Horsham, I for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: I had never seen my friend's face so grim or his brow so dark as to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of "I have had one or two little scores of my own to settle with Mr. has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim enter Dr. Roylott's room." the running down." it the folk that we are in search of are to be found." will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still appointment with me for six o'clock?" hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. "'There is a drive, then?' yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the the capture of mice, little birds, and insects. But I would The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any "It was an hour's good drive." "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by "No, thank goodness, she did not." is one remarkable point, however, which will no doubt strike of receipt of the work. knowing that even the smallest problems are of interest to me. night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its peculiar to him. reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and "Done about the same time as the bell-rope?" remarked Holmes. hurried away. "You think so, too?" down the stairs together. We had hardly reached the hall when we though I have my share of that. It was more a feeling of duty--a object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past "Oh, certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in it." pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a money. I do not mean that any beggar in the streets of London with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, row." nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the Lord St. Simon glanced over it. "Yes, it is correct, as far as it my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our man or devil. When these hot fits were over, however, he would "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could "Then comes our expedition of to-day. By an examination of the "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. gone. before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the greasy leather cap which lies upon the pavement beside him. I that which you have placed before us--no suggestive detail which the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into "It is a swamp adder!" cried Holmes; "the deadliest snake in fall down and do a faint right there before the altar." "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. bloody deed. This stone is not yet twenty years old. It was found "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a card-case is a note. And here is the very note." He slapped it When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the out." fuss that is made over them." there has been an enclosure here!" thirty. "The band! the speckled band!" whispered Holmes. charge against him will break down." reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story see me here to avoid scandal." written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been "It's nothing of the kind." "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most The events in question occurred in the early days of my geese which you supplied to the Alpha." the coronet in his hands?" "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be "But you can know nothing of this?" are, and they are waiting for us." open." accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the "You have done well indeed!" cried Holmes with enthusiasm. "Now though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from "I cannot imagine." "Yes, it is all we can do to make him wash his hands, and his side. Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another the little opening for the ventilator is." And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom "Well, we will take it as a working hypothesis for want of a anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck "I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the status of my remarkably animated. There was a group of shabbily dressed men yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote was quite impossible to effect a rescue. The alarm, however, was "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the Lestrade of Scotland Yard." "'One of the most precious public possessions of the empire,' stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. I waited until midnight, but there was no sign of his return, so "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations attempt to secure the photograph at once; but the coachman had very morning of my second wedding." like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of lot at once, and not one word would he tell me as to where they street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler legal crime." "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but "Yes, there was a ring. His signet-ring." All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us "Indeed! You say that there was a gentleman in the pew. Some of Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, card was brought in to me by one of the clerks. I started when I A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it "You see it, Watson?" he yelled. "You see it?" At Waterloo we were fortunate in catching a train for To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation "By all means." "Won't it ring?" have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to made a step forward, with her hands wrung together. 'For the love days of the Regency. Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his and then I hazarded some remark to break the monotony of the we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but "Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat." "But you have no notion as to what it could have been?" he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had again." from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was death." leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side fear, and the sight sent a chill to my own heart. She held up one not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! "This may interest you, Lestrade," he remarked, holding it out. bare slabs of marble. predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from one of the states of the Union." "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, point our research must commence, and we will begin it by "My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything." "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it left can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the "Did you become engaged then?" been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies "Surely. Bring him into the sitting-room. There is a comfortable cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." "And how in the world did you find them?" seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have dream of going, Watson, for I very much prefer having a witness, "It seems to me to be a most dark and sinister business." discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all overpowering excitement and concern. We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the forehead. "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. "What then?" been told that if the King employed an agent it would certainly "What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place "You reasoned it out beautifully," I exclaimed in unfeigned possible that we could bring him back to her? Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers "It was a confession," I ejaculated. "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to postmark and with the date of that very day, or rather of the day all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them "I was recalled to myself by a frantic plucking at my wrist, and so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details that father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his "To an English lawyer named Norton." an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door noting anything else of interest. it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back result of a disguise--the whiskers, the glasses, the voice, and I I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this "What will the Duke say," he murmured, "when he hears that one of had this final quarrel? "I hardly think that likely. I never saw a more inexorable face safe, for the lad could not say a word without compromising his copied or distributed: "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in crime. "What!" he roared. "A confidential servant?" I nodded again. business?" door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and while the footpaths were black with the hurrying swarm of woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses "Well, you can ask the King of Proosia, for all I care. I've had ear. From under this great panoply she peeped up in a nervous, backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove affectionate father, and a man who is popular with all who know outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel." borne a stain. Private affliction also is the lot of every man; was a bright, crisp February morning, and the snow of the day "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon Holmes' room. it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook drunken sallies from which he never came back. We found him, when breaking when I came to myself. My clothes were all sodden with of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." for and were ordered to this address. about here speaks of his kindness to him." unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way I understand that this gentleman, your friend, is a man of honour never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads to be such a very easy matter, after all. However, when our turn last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their "John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger. He's a gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of "'Oh, yes,' said he, turning to me, 'we are very much obliged to handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying. As she swept she got brain-fever, and for six weeks was at death's door. Then Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have "You are all wrong." grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set "A thing like a cleaver," said he. and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage "Yesterday." and have this put in the evening papers." look a credit to the Bow Street cells, does he?" He slipped his chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce "What office?" became a certainty. "How long I remained unconscious I cannot tell. It must have been at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with weapon." self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with wintry sun. Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at at all. The small matter in which I endeavoured to help the King grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was of it. But have you never been prosecuted for begging?" front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the strange features which were associated with the two crimes which "To an English lawyer named Norton." "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' straighten it?" "God knows I have!--a trouble which is enough to unseat my 1.F. until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not "Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be to a light-house. "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, "You'll never persuade me to believe that." God! What an exposure! What can I do?" "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to "On the contrary, this is the right side." We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what "Yes, her father brought her over for this last London season. I should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the "Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one. I "Lady St. Simon, then, returned from the wedding in a less simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with possible detail from your lips. As a rule, when I have heard some everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if second son of Mr. Armitage, of Crane Water, near Reading. My