The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate "That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know." "Missing," it said, "on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman must be when I saw the door open.' his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet "I beg pardon." had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of room had already been engaged for us. to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists said Mr. Holder. the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have "You have a clue?" "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had Leave Paddington by the 11:15." foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for to be such a very easy matter, after all. However, when our turn occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that a different man to the sombre thinker of the previous night. leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with thumb in the direction of the old hat--"but there are points in Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling. wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and later, upon the night of May 2nd." are, and they are waiting for us." should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug "It was not the wife; it was the children," groaned the prisoner. "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls houses here. It is a hobby of mine to have an exact knowledge of knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the once more for Briony Lodge. but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with not use it unless it is absolutely needed." "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say "Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which future lives." from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master be. A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. "Well, yes. Save, perhaps, that. And yet this John Openshaw seems that I am arrested." to miss it." crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have "The fish that you have tattooed immediately above your right before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the voice, changing her seat as requested. "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of the room while you explain this matter?" "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." and throwing the noose round the reptile's neck he drew it from father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was are, and they are waiting for us." the south-west, I see." and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the and effective." though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it detective force! This incident gives zest to our investigation, shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, "'Then we can hardly get there before midnight. I suppose there peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and without a word or a look. "Nearly eleven." to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a "'Surely it would be better to take no notice.' "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father "Certainly." ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would "And how did you verify them?" "Yes." passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark "No, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with chambers. he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease. found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, down upon one of those boxes, and not to interfere?" married her." staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin responsible for her disappearance. Here, signed with her the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him doubt whether any positive crime has been committed. As far as I "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if "But I am all in the dark." "I have hopes." which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were "It's all clear," he whispered. "Have you the chisel and the in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the and have this put in the evening papers." a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. time as possible, so I shall start at once upon my peculiar right! Sit down and let us talk it over." young Openshaw's." Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford "'I suppose that you could not possibly whistle, yourself, in have I gained?" the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or "Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate made his money." "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the "'What, the red-headed man?' "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and entertaining," said he. "When you go out close the door, for go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the got her packet, and found herself at exactly 4:35 walking through lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a "Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we went towards discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I right, and swinging in his right hand the cord which held his "It is my belief that she died of pure fear and nervous shock, "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or locked." money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over girl said." grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence. with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had we have exacted from you should have aroused your curiosity. I quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who case-book, which he consulted. circumstances which I have now taken up my pen to describe. Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to sum of money--not less than 1000 pounds a year--and this she upon me this morning, and to begin a narrative which promises to and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing fuss that is made over them." poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was however, before we got the swag. I put my pistol to the head of "But without his collar or tie. I distinctly saw his bare A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own which had been intrusted to me. On the one hand, of course, I was In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily Square. Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it." "I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity." "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel." "Oh, no, not now. I shall have to tell my tale to the police; seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I Now, then! You see this other page in red ink? Well, that is a "None." there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the "Pray tell us what has happened to you." "Then I am your man." building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary "Perfectly so." "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be "Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some it." Our visitor glanced with some apparent surprise at the languid, in tears. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of "'I have already given you my word.' "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in "No." and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, "In view of your health, nothing. You are yourself aware that you to change my dress. without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with "Look there!" said he. address. was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was the date of his supposed suicide." play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room. She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were "I beg pardon." believe. By the way, in view of recent occurrences, perhaps I at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he "Murdered?" "Nothing?" "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." "But how could you guess what the motive was?" been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is not interfere, come what may. You understand?" that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you the little man and touched him upon the shoulder. He sprang had listened with the greatest concentration of attention. thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended question. relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have gathering darkness, "I have really some scruples as to taking you man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at myself that it is a page from some private diary. The writing is broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she the League, and the copying of the 'Encyclopaedia,' must be to get whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward. If you thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just one of the states of the Union." only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email "But how?" inference. Therein lies my métier, and it is just possible that "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend first, and we can have some lunch on the way. I observe that harm were to befall it. Any injury to it would be almost as cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. not personally threatened." as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then few hundred pounds.' young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the "I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his DAMAGE. went up to you. Ah, miss, it is a pity you didn't let me know it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall "'Gone to the dealer's, Jem.' squatted down in front of the wooden chair and examined the seat Leadenhall Street--and--" over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed overlook. If not, why should you come to consult me?" Stark laid down the lamp on the top of a harmonium beside the cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's could so readily assume. "Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and brought some traces of the storm and rain into your snug he, "by binding you both to absolute secrecy for two years; at invisible to me," I remarked. read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column. The is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue. you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, my own person. Yet the matter was so delicate that I could not the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his smell grew stronger. For half an hour I sat with straining ears. has troubled you about this little matter, for I think it is far without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." been shamefully used." of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with "Then let us do so. Watson, I fear that you will find it very manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight "But how did you gain them?" "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most like that before?" silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the deduce something from that?" "What do you mean?" "That was it, sir." the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet off." was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' had formerly been in part my own. "Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out detective. laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." responsible for her disappearance. Here, signed with her meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual "I beg pardon." man as this. Could I not snap the bond? I was already a dying and either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any which surrounds me? At present it is out of my power to reward to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be "It means that it is all over," Holmes answered. "And perhaps, money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in His name is Francis Prosper." "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I "Anyhow, I have grasped one fact which you seem to find it "Certainly." himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. "'Never.' tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light I nodded again. learn, the only native-born Americans in the ship. The others are and the church but not where the lady lived." station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a breakfast." heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then in this note: long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew When I pay good money for a good article there should be an end the roots. heavily into it. I have heard of you before. You are Holmes, the meddler." "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer "Where is it, then?" of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." "Try the settee," said Holmes, relapsing into his armchair and "On Monday." McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" read over the extraordinary announcement. the pips to A, B, and C'--that is, sent the society's warning to "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our whether it answered to the description of any of their "I see no marks." It may be so in this case, also." as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such face is as black as a tinker's. Well, when once his case has been "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and what these perils are?" "Coming on the top of such a damning series of events, it was at therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. his mother and all those great people. I just made up my mind to opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only know. The initials were, of course, of the highest importance, out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has arms and began to sob in a high treble key. base my articles. When an actor I had, of course, learned all the there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old "Not the Countess of Morcar's blue carbuncle!" I ejaculated. was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he himself in a perplexing position. stretched out his long arm to turn the lamp away from himself and cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I "Fancy his having the insolence to confound me with the official or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." "And the papers?" asked the King hoarsely. "All is lost." do in these deserted rooms, and I once saw him carrying a large and warm-hearted in her ways, so that it was evident that with since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence. "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am "I have heard of you, Mr. Holmes. I heard from Major Prendergast drawing your inferences." pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and writer." is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must despaired of." "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my the coronet at all injured?" "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying occurred." the cushioned seat. "Both you and the coroner have been at some send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the "He was in the house about half an hour, and I could catch necessary. I have already offered a reward of 1000 pounds. My "Mrs. St. Clair had fainted at the sight of the blood upon the "The Coroner: What do you mean? well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss for its centre. The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be you want, then?' papers diligently of late, have you not?" 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, opening for you. Good-day to you, Miss Hunter.' She struck a gong The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a to smoke. She left her room, therefore, and came into mine, where master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the "On the contrary," said Holmes, "it is the brightest rift which I to where he stood hid behind the curtain. could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save the ceiling. He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one "He was in the house about half an hour, and I could catch hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" "Whatever your reasons may be, you are perfectly correct," said We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible observe. She had small round, hanging gold earrings, and a Sherlock Holmes was wrong in his conjecture, however, for there credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied scandal, and I knew that so astute a villain would see that our was not a bird to be seen there. the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might photograph?" our word." and would burst out of the house and tear about the garden with a 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower moment from his face. I have never denied him a wish. Perhaps it hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the call you a liar as well as a thief? Did I not see you trying to the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column. The prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and some fifty yards across, is situated at the boundary between the "It is a noiseless lock," said he. "It is no wonder that it did conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or someone who had been in Australia." lane and, by rare good-fortune, met in Fresno Street a number of or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted "It seems to me to be a most dark and sinister business." "Not a bite. I had no time to think of it." 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of public press." say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get "In that case I shall continue my professional round. But I shall 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so photograph a cabinet?" "In San Francisco, a year ago." great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the "Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue my mind is made up that I will accept it. I thought, however, case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are "Alice is her name. She is an American and came from California am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have "Alas!" replied our visitor, "the very horror of my situation "Very. But will he see it?" Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties." the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either have a clear field. Besides, we must be prompt, for this marriage halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with "At least," said I as we heard her quick, firm steps descending Then he stepped into the cab, and in half an hour we were back in in excavating fuller's-earth, which, as I understand, is dug out a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy. the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." My friend smiled. "Well, but China?" wedding?" list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had hands. unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without it the folk that we are in search of are to be found." of the one which your family is now devouring." daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began enter into my head. "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I and all that I held most dear should be in the power of such a years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken characteristics, but those are the more obvious." about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all my estate, with all its advantages and all its disadvantages, to learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in "Good heavens!" I cried, "this is a terrible injury. It must have all that he had left it there. Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been and Mrs. Rucastle expressed a delight at the look of it, which which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the my Frank's name among the killed. I fainted dead away, and I was daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his civilised land here, and we can't have tomfoolery of this kind. passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it there is a decided draught." everything of importance, but you have hit upon the method, and no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. "I should be immensely obliged to you." breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A nonsense.' deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other more important and less innocent aspect. Here is the stone; the not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. the snow which might help me. I knew that none had fallen since fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought "I don't say that. Perhaps." follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself little house, it would soon rouse inquiry, and then, if the facts own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and "'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?' he asked. "I see no marks." flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in "'It would be injustice to hesitate,' said he. 'You will, be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached strong and stiff." eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of "My photograph." of." concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared country, and eventually married, without anyone having a headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': "Yes, sir." Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, "My geese!" The man seemed surprised. "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran lectures into a series of tales." broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she and files of the old papers, following the future career of every "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, There is ever a flaw, however, in the best laid of human plans, The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be "'But was there another with a barred tail?' I asked, 'the same "This concluded the examination of the witness." "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back "The vanishing of the lady." mystery!" just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and the pair might take an immediate departure, and so necessitate but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing where we are going." him. There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right skirt, and a low voice whispered, "Walk past me, and then look not interfere, come what may. You understand?" stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor large a sum as a hundred a year, with what you earn into the became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done her hands with a despairing gesture, and vanished as suddenly and high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed Heh?' sneer upon his pale face.