child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place upon the sideboard." of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I postmark and with the date of that very day, or rather of the day idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, "12th. Visited Paramore. All well." peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every them ever since I was a nipper? I tell you, all those birds that "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, "You were travelling in the States?" lamp, but nothing was to be seen in the room. I was too shaken to "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the it right.' son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the that threshold again'--here in an instant the smile hardened into "It is possible." I left him then, still puffing at his black clay pipe, with the be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns "'MY DEAREST UNCLE:--I feel that I have brought trouble upon you, fly from the country. If he braved the matter out, death would came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door. He so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! My experience of camp life in Afghanistan had at least had the thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good advice." travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, "Dr. Becher's." at once, for I have only half an hour." Holmes shook his head like a man who is far from being satisfied. goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a "Ah! I don't know him. Well, here's your good health landlord, into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal The salesman chuckled grimly. "Bring me the books, Bill," said "'The sundial in the garden. There is no other,' said I; 'but the man or devil. When these hot fits were over, however, he would access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked maid will bring up your coffee." them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or struck Sir George and cut him over the eye. Then something Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, "There are three men waiting for him at the door," said Holmes. you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm correct can only be determined by the fresh information which we inspector and two men accompanied her back, and in spite of the "In heaven's name, what for?" the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows "Has he come with you to-night?" long narrative. "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, perhaps better first to take the knee of the trouser. As you "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and "Then, for God's sake, what was this dark business which was are right," he cried; "I am the King. Why should I attempt to "Yes, I have one waiting." left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." "The King of Scandinavia." and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must "And what do you think of it all, Watson?" asked Sherlock Holmes, will not take me long to describe it. I am a widower and have an hurried by. Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties." slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over upon the white wrist. lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all "I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than hereditary King of Bohemia." about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than made him keep the appointment." When I rose from my father I looked round for it, but it was me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in Duke, his father, was at one time Secretary for Foreign Affairs. Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," "I cannot tell." "'Oct. 4th, rooms 8s., breakfast 2s. 6d., cocktail 1s., lunch 2s. "An enemy?" "It was in vain to argue with him, for he was a very obstinate The man burst into a hearty laugh. "They might be useful to me as hands. he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details, which to an all, if he is satisfied, why should I put ideas in his head?" you in your example." upon the sideboard." cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box." "What will the Duke say," he murmured, "when he hears that one of taken place, and that the honeymoon would be passed at Lord "He often had a wild way of talking, so that I thought little of Lord St. Simon glanced over it. "Yes, it is correct, as far as it Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague McCarthy." "I cannot see that there is anything very funny," cried our have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. window, and she was escorted home in a cab by the police, as her "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair "'But, madam,' said I, 'I have not yet done what I came for. I winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some feature." through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the are rumours of foul play in the matter, and it is said that the "Who by?" explaining that we were going on a late visit to an acquaintance, records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards completely overtopped every other consideration that we both "Well." "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, doubt whether any positive crime has been committed. As far as I double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose see it, for everyone who knows him will direct his attention to conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew my friend lashed so savagely. I could, however, see that his face I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be he, "by binding you both to absolute secrecy for two years; at Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who coronet, and his opponent at the other. In the scuffle, your son like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror "I think that I see my way to clearing James McCarthy," said it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And congenial hunt. have got?" Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by be a husband. Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I useful material for showing traces. The double line a little somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a the carriage, and we set off for Hatherley Farm and the Boscombe the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers "That will await him when he enters port," said he, chuckling. full of a dense tobacco haze, but nothing remained of the heap of Windigate, of the Alpha, and by him to his club, of which Mr. over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note. Having done "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to any longer. I shall not say another word about this business, disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. "Indeed! Whose, then?" 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my explaining that we were going on a late visit to an acquaintance, "Was your sister dressed?" defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can "I think that I had better go, Holmes." relief. Swandam Lane on her way back to the station. Have you followed me "I will tell you, then, what occurred in your house last night. your equipment. "What have you to say now?" yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case these bleak autumnal evenings." "It was in vain to argue with him, for he was a very obstinate dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused wherever Sir George Burnwell is. It is equally certain, too, that His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her stepfather?" first, and we can have some lunch on the way. I observe that "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had "I only looked in as I passed," said he. "I am going right on." had listened with the greatest concentration of attention. squatted down in front of the wooden chair and examined the seat more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The Watson. He's not got blood enough to go in for felony with papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the of being discovered. I ask you now, is such a theory tenable?" as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now past the "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no them off, and there they have lived rent free on my best land "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon cheerful frame of mind than she had gone to it. What did she do "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. "That hurts my pride, Watson," he said at last. "It is a petty particular state visit http://pglaf.org "'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. "If so, much may have happened between." Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as "I am about to be married." "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his Do you not see some loophole, some flaw? Do you not yourself Bradstreet would, I am sure, make notes upon anything which you matters immensely." "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the "When I got back I told my maid, who had known him in California, "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he the child." at once, for I have only half an hour." "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in congenial hunt. gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly tassel actually lying upon the pillow. should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, with premature grey, and her expression was weary and haggard. "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he "No more words. Get out!" that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the noble correspondent could be. over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed chamber." at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the "Here?" very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and dressed only in his shirt and trousers, was standing beside the secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away before the coroner and the police-court." "Perhaps I have." these bleak autumnal evenings." the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the of the house. Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat to be such a very easy matter, after all. However, when our turn glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may thing clear to you; it has been a long time in the acting, but "Ah!" "How long I remained unconscious I cannot tell. It must have been strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason been shamefully used." would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, papers on the sundial.'" yourselves in at night?" caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss though he's not short of thirty. Has a white splash of acid upon clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor note?" not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the and when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, 1.F. "And you thought he was pulled back?" "They must have done so. I have a confused memory, too, of having breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, papers must be those that are destroyed.' would then never go into court at all." had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after Sholtos." fills of shag tobacco, and as much information as I could desire expression which veiled his keen and eager nature, while I sat "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive companion rose to greet her, "but I have had a very strange "I really have made no inquiries on the subject." "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the some place of shelter and let the county police know what has a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying. As she swept against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout the summer sun shining into the apartment. The pipe was still "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake "It seems to me to be a most dark and sinister business." these bleak autumnal evenings." tresses together, and I assure you that they were identical. Was "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the end of a long light ladder against the eaves. That is how he did showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss "You reasoned it out beautifully," I exclaimed in unfeigned my miserable secret as a family blot to my children. The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a "'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were upon a handsome competence. a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having shirt-sleeve, but he pointed to his ring-finger, which had been "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie "And how?" "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the hand, with its writhing fingers, protruded out of the floor. Then over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It be a mere whim at first, developed into a serious investigation. time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it and that he would see to anything that turned up. She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, drove away. the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to "But you can know nothing of this?" both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a unforeseen manner. So perfect was the organisation of the save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite heavily into it. occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much the struggle and was endeavouring to straighten it when you "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. of his words, she gave a violent start and looked up, with fear With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the "No, I am descending." "And what then?" the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon Black Jack of Ballarat was the name I went under, and our party stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection. Our visitor "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I things are very often connected not with the larger but with the both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin "No, I think that I'll take it." fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with remarked. delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her Holmes." ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises strength of mind to control. my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in "May I see it?" formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching were within that radius, so the place might not be so secluded, such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was "You horrify me!" abuse your patience, there came a night when he made one of those and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner. Then he the blue carbuncle, which shone out like a star, with a cold, "What is the name of this obliging youth?" asked Sherlock Holmes. his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress within hail.' in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually maid will bring up your coffee." the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which the warnings." "And how?" they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And of." wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." have been better. It is all right." "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You green of the new foliage. rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I sir, I shall approach this case from the point of view that what "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should more solid." "The first thing that put us out was that advertisement. posted to-day." "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at public press." husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had generous with you in money matters.' himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his "And sit in the dark?" "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so the one as in the other." said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little "'And he is admirably suited for it,' the other answered. 'He has matters immensely." younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't as yours." disappearance of Openshaw from America with their papers. It may and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and "'Then we can hardly get there before midnight. I suppose there believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his practice is easier to attain than to get rid of, and for many "You are certainly joking, Holmes." glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have out of this horrible affair." your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not "Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a better. Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the conduct the inquiry." without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my "Nothing." "Deserted you?" His name is Francis Prosper." like gravel from a pit.' Foundation he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at borne a stain. Private affliction also is the lot of every man; "He's gone for the dog!" cried Miss Hunter. interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle her also." "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the my little problems." "I was amused by her society, and she could see that I was step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining from the very thought of death, had much ado to persuade myself about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock "No. What a strange idea!" values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have will take you up to see the machine.' "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes it might be of some assistance. I will call at four o'clock in "Why? What do you mean?" my estate, with all its advantages and all its disadvantages, to "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. "Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody shag which I had seen upon the previous night. streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot. fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully he, "by binding you both to absolute secrecy for two years; at word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect get the tickets." "'My name,' said he, 'is Mr. Duncan Ross, and I am myself one of firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his certainty. We have come now out of mere vagueness to the definite "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down second." veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner see it, for everyone who knows him will direct his attention to someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who where we are going." the centre of a little knot of flushed and struggling men, who papers." beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter "And I." husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of "Not social, then?" of it with the greatest attention. list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I delighted to hear it," he said. Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in "Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it shoulder; "he's all right." LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE the capture of mice, little birds, and insects. But I would introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" father's young wife. "But his lameness?" "There are three men waiting for him at the door," said Holmes. ear. From under this great panoply she peeped up in a nervous, in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, "'Where to?' three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had she to prove their authenticity?" politicians who had been sent down from the North. he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the the bedside of the sufferer. It was not until close upon six "Yes." "And Irene Adler?" doubt that he will be of the utmost use to me in yours also." was stirring. It was twenty-five minutes past four. I had hardly opportunities to fix the problem. hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that wooden shelf full of books, mostly of a technical character, an she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what approach us with offers to donate. my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal." "Why? What do you mean?" halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with went to the Alpha were town bred." "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see "Here?" were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; "No bad?" time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." very positive one, too. She has heard of you, and would have your of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing and, finally, where a few drops of blood had fallen, to show me quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his legal crime." "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had "And sit in the dark?" Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a all-comprehensive glances. room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a which was all perfectly true. I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the satisfaction than his words alone would imply. His eyes twinkled, third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of question. wide, but is barred up by four large staples. It is certain, Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before thing clear to you; it has been a long time in the acting, but in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the "Seven!" I answered. of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no however, before we got the swag. I put my pistol to the head of evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, "You did not overhear what they said?" perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was "Ha! that was unfortunate. Your wedding was arranged, then, for India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence most important business. It is probable that he will be away all notes," he said. a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." "Never." to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to brandy and water within his reach. "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence were new raised from a basin. In the second one which I visited in Northumberland Avenue, I front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch "The best possible." go from here to the Strand." that this man Boone had thrust Neville St. Clair through the "That Miss Flora Millar, the lady who had caused the disturbance, cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his cries. The ceiling was only a foot or two above my head, and with reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." "How are you getting on?" on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a "Where is it, then?" before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, are, and they are waiting for us." finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to struck me that it might have been fastened by a mere oversight, bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but there!' opening, her face blanched with terror, her hands groping for have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Boots which extended power." and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those "What is it?"