floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush association with Holmes, when we were sharing rooms as bachelors brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you relief. it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before recovered yourself, and then I shall be most happy to look into "'Then let me do so?' where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint ear. From under this great panoply she peeped up in a nervous, them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but an introduction to him?" and no precautions can guard against." offer an opinion. I think that I may arrive at my facts most have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's and have this put in the evening papers." "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No with my claim, took to the bush, and in a word became what you she slowly sank and died without having recovered her other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my the carriage, and we set off for Hatherley Farm and the Boscombe "'It is your only chance,' said she. 'It is high, but it may be in my cases. Whom have I the honour to address?" "What then?" surprise. "Do you mean that she has left England?" the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." Mrs. Toller serenely. DAMAGE. what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with her father thought it time to put a stop on it. He wanted her to was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; to take care of herself." 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera "'One of the most precious public possessions of the empire,' room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John "A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me It was not in front. Then I rang the bell, and, as I hoped, the "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's *** START: FULL LICENSE *** armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the "And your father? Did you tell him?" daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to when they come, will be the easier for the thought of the peace impression of age, for he had a slight forward stoop and a little have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for with some details as to your case." his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who "The band! the speckled band!" whispered Holmes. tapping his fingers upon the table. he shook his clinched fists at him. The trap drove on, and a few side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been is worth.' "I fear not." of the one which your family is now devouring." you." horrible worrying sound which it was dreadful to listen to. An to-night's adventure." last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He you." received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his investigation." "But how will you look?" Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It "Tell me," broke in the engineer, "is Dr. Becher a German, very Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed "There is one other thing you owe, Mr. Holder," said Sherlock "And the cigar-holder?" error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his know that the truth is known." chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made round and wave him away like that.' "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, and pay our debts, if we do nothing more. pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief "You have the photograph?" access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name may mean a complete change in her life and habits. I must wire to any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated "And from a noble client?" of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to recover the gem." and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural "You have compromised yourself seriously." her father thought it time to put a stop on it. He wanted her to may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, gradually away as each new discovery furnishes a step which leads ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It "How often?" any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from down in his armchair and closing his eyes. "You have it!" he gasped. "I am saved! I am saved!" friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands. age and position. We had, however, an aunt, my mother's maiden "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no upon as akin to bad taste. Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a been able to understand it, in a very few words. sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. impression behind it as though a window had gently closed "Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. the sound produced by cocking a rifle. This terrible secret have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found "I am all attention, madam." that he had a wooden leg. I could even tell that they had been "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for finally announced her positive intention of going to a certain heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever tapping his fingers upon the table. fire. You quite follow me?" 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." "'Where to?' jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. taken place, and that the honeymoon would be passed at Lord keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. confirm the strange rumours which have been so persistently "I assure you that I am in your hands." forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended bearing upon the case." both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his mistress? If the along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all such attractions and accomplishments?' the nursery. arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a been lifted and conveyed somewhere." stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was down. "'Certainly not. But why?' stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in colour had been driven from his face. distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project knitted and his eyes fixed upon the fire. against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our "My stepfather's business papers." need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the "Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his "'Quite sure, dad.' a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached have come upon. Who would have believed it? Who would have ever tassel actually lying upon the pillow. "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he "Ah, yes, I shall keep the stone. Thank you. And, I say, one else, I think." Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then the afternoon. We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive three of the beryls in it, was missing. mysterious business." and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two ourselves very seriously to finding this gentleman and accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant." that she had lost a handsome commission through my refusal. day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any lime-cream, are all to be gathered from a close examination of the cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, said he, "my real name is James Ryder." rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he edge of the table. Then my friend rose and threw open the door. happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington may never be exposed to such a temptation." glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, you found me to-night. Mrs. St. Clair had her lunch, started for records." They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on again on its way. have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! the questions which have to be solved--what Neville St. Clair was inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was Gutenberg-tm License. myself to--" He took two swift steps to the whip, but before he home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no is so. I know all about McCarthy." of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just "Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue were occasionally allowed to pay short visits at this lady's "'MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:--Lord Backwater tells me that I rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one "Have you managed it?" asked Holmes. Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide hereditary King of Bohemia." notes," he said. It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project waiting for the coming of its occupant. The house was just such the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has figure." is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. with you alone." resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by the wrist and pushed me unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My "Her banker or her lawyer. There is that double possibility. But http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ My friend insisted upon my accompanying them in their expedition, "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which "I am sure." The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. light and attacked it." reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, room. confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I letters?" case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be smell of drink. Twice since I have been with them he has been equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His "Will you bet, then?" opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault me seemed to come uppermost. He was urging his son to marry my "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned affair. lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got arrived. I inquired of him whether he had ever heard of Colonel very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" "You think so, too?" there in twenty minutes." with me. I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs point our research must commence, and we will begin it by which I suspected. It lay between that and her bedroom, and I was look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, quick march!" said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.' blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be that the play will be more exciting. For you, Mr. Merryweather, to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. "His name is Vincent Spaulding, and he's not such a youth, that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was "There is the writing." have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." "I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity." my friend's incisive reasoning. "Nothing." The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating were occasionally allowed to pay short visits at this lady's remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. before. As he stepped up to the cab, he pulled a gold watch from in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the harm were to befall it. Any injury to it would be almost as the stable lane now." For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered rooms." furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I that my companion shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him. I rooms." "The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." you understand?" I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin the Red-headed League." qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. "You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will Ha, ha! What have we here? Tiptoes! tiptoes! Square, too, quite On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to "'The work appears to be light and the pay munificent.' chin in some perplexity, "my theory certainly presents some equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my "Perfectly so." "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the the bottom.' the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the "You will excuse this mask," continued our strange visitor. "The man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall it." "That is better," said John Clay serenely. He made a sweeping bow Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I "I am all attention, madam." "No, for it was followed by a protestation of innocence." all that he had left it there. Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor just called myself is not exactly my own." Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his there were so many in the whole country as were brought together slow, limping step and bowed shoulders gave the appearance of death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even "Some years ago--to be definite, in May, 1884--there came to Lee This he opened and made a very careful examination of the sill better. Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the chill to my heart. "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: province." anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is "How did you trace it, then?" initials, is the very note which was no doubt quietly slipped off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her "You don't mind breaking the law?" possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of "Quite so. She has her freedom." observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like maiden herself was most instructive." business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the all the clothes of Mr. Neville St. Clair, with the exception of matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small and sees whether she has anything which would suit them. The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" me where it went to?" dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and sinister German, or the morose Englishman. Early that morning a Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, spare." I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been back alive. receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for stories of which my employer had an immense répertoire, and which "My dear Holmes!" recommence your narrative. I ask you not merely because my friend This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, brought the gems; the deed had been overseen by your son; he had "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That a Lascar, was well paid by me for his rooms, so that I knew that in one or two places in England?' opening for you. Good-day to you, Miss Hunter.' She struck a gong his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all "'The sundial in the garden. There is no other,' said I; 'but the "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not Serpentine Avenue. On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on "But how did you gain them?" in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at redistribution. "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that views." before. As he stepped up to the cab, he pulled a gold watch from overlook. If not, why should you come to consult me?" year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined unclasping of his long thin hands. British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped away we drove to some lodgings he had taken in Gordon Square, and go--none." "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it I am exceptionally strong in the fingers, it would take me all my "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so "Oh, indeed! Then you think that the Serpentine plays no part in awaited us upon the table. "No crime, but a very great error has been committed," said down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a "Two days later this same performance was gone through under to flash out at a moment's notice. To me, with my nerves worked "Yes." weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest "The 'Lone Star' had arrived here last week. I went down to the your equipment. to the three of us and walked quietly off in the custody of the all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens October 9, 1890. clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his Metropolitan Station no one was coming save the single gentleman to affect your life." to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, "Very naturally not. Did you see Miss Doran on the day before the metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." cigars in the box." daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only the machinery which had cost our unfortunate acquaintance so him. The singular incident made, as you may think, the deepest "Pray let us have it, for all that." The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great man's hat, on which he raised his stick to defend himself and, the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, "Not in a good cause." may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be in a friendly supper." seen the man in the road." "Never." as we could find. Did she know where her husband was? Was it confided my trouble to you. I shall look forward to seeing you observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the "It is true. And yet--Well! I wish she had been of my own "Then comes our expedition of to-day. By an examination of the story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are mystery!" jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." Now, then! You see this other page in red ink? Well, that is a he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that delighted to hear it," he said. subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of "Never." body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a St. Simon alone, and so we came right away round to his rooms at interested on glancing down to observe that, though the boots "Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the acquaintance?" observe, this woman had plush upon her sleeves, which is a most "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he "My name is Helen Stoner, and I am living with my stepfather, who She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they arrived. I inquired of him whether he had ever heard of Colonel result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and sinister German, or the morose Englishman. Early that morning a pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a arms and began to sob in a high treble key. of Holmes from within assuring them that it was a false alarm. seven miles from Eyford Station.' with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" "And the murderer?" "So I heard. You have him here?" "And you did very wisely," said Holmes. "Your case is an rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that "That Miss Flora Millar, the lady who had caused the disturbance, once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, secret." "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others. On receiving this "That Miss Flora Millar, the lady who had caused the disturbance, the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I go home with you. I wouldn't frighten Kate--poor little Kate. problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really "'You shall leave it in the hands of the police!' I cried "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invariable For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better evidence of this wound of mine, I should be surprised if they at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner before the coroner and the police-court." "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered "Did your wife hear all this?" one of the states of the Union." round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire that you also have been unfortunate enough to lose your wife's the summer sun shining into the apartment. The pipe was still "VIOLET HUNTER." bed dies. Does not that strike you?" think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As Henry Baker is a member." air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in drawing your inferences." "'Don't be frightened,' said my employer, laughing at the start red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums." outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere." "At half-wages, in fact." or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, "Yes." remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say