cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his that I am arrested." thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." empty. always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, "How many? I don't know." cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. "And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner," observed Holmes, shading "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back rope and land on the bed. It might or might not bite the impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been in some way, and if you will not let me have it, then I must try breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, were weary and stiff, for I feared to change my position; yet my Stark laid down the lamp on the top of a harmonium beside the door?" time and pledged myself not to marry anyone else while he lived. very peculiar words of the dying woman?" "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to what the meaning of this extraordinary performance could possibly Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was "As low as you can," he answered; "I have excellent ears. If you opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be crust of metallic deposit all over it. I had stooped and was He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, "It is very essential, Miss Stoner," said he, "that you should "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said "At least," said I as we heard her quick, firm steps descending I may have to go down to Horsham, after all." "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" Christmas morning, in company with a good fat goose, which is, I saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." Having once made up my mind, you know the steps which I took in interest. They are important, you understand, without being first of all, we must choose our positions. These are daring men, they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or held above her head, pushing her face forward and peering at us. upon the sideboard." Clair. His name is Hugh Boone, and his hideous face is one which even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of "Ah, thereby hangs a rather painful tale. This fellow is madly, make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said were occasionally allowed to pay short visits at this lady's "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook arrived. I inquired of him whether he had ever heard of Colonel The question was hardly out of my mouth, and Holmes had not yet Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our returning from some small jollification and was making his way "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George "I know where it is." Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much his eyes. "I trust that I am not intruding. I fear that I have recommence your narrative. I ask you not merely because my friend very quiet; on the third, Mrs. Rucastle came down just after and effective." "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of keenly down at him as he leaned back in a basket-chair. discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional see?' He was still smiling in the most amiable manner. over their heads might have suggested the strange adjective which did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the part of his face, extending down past the cheekbones, a black "I believe that he is coming here," said Holmes, rubbing his fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" seemed to tax his powers so sorely, and yet afraid to break in uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your pursued the thief; had struggled with him; they had each tugged "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their "You have done well indeed!" cried Holmes with enthusiasm. "Now back to my heart. mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" "No." God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son "You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure," said she, as my "'And a very good thing, too!' I cried. as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was "No, she was in her night-dress. In her right hand was found the "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had "'Tell me, dad,' said she, looking, I thought, a little the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than "I noted, in passing, that she had written a note before leaving "Do you receive much company?" he asked. woven round him. suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." but unfortunately I had no capital by which I could do this. I not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" any." the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and Lord St. Simon glanced over it. "Yes, it is correct, as far as it The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, adventuress, Irene Adler. The name is no doubt familiar to you." will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees Leave Paddington by the 11:15." firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the was feeling which was the fattest.' call for protection in the marriage market, for the present "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to "Your sister is dead, then?" hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was "But you can know nothing of this?" such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and "Then he might have called to you?" morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at "It is no ordinary one." has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the really the only notable feature about the thing." "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in "The King of Scandinavia." circumstances which I have now taken up my pen to describe. "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" his eyes and forehead. "That you are never beaten." "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the chin which rolled down in fold upon fold over his throat sat at us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. "Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given "I had gone up to town about an investment, and I met him in "Pray do so." had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the straightened it out again. "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully "The two McCarthys were seen after the time when William Crowder, immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just "'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.' "Well, when they closed their League offices that was a sign that that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a being lighted as we paced up and down in front of Briony Lodge, said he. position forever. The will is very clear upon that point. You "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for me upon any point which I do not make clear." ashen face. beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by directors, with the result that you have seen." thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. bare slabs of marble. "Oh, the cause is excellent!" neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding present." however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' occurred." Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. your aunt's at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is "'And the work?' "But she will refuse." of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me who may be more successful." He opened the door and ushered in a "Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago." "Yes, sir. I met him that night, and he called next day to ask if "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would crime." chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and "'Yes.' Watson. He's not got blood enough to go in for felony with I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection. Our visitor "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for me." business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the you came in." "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of said he at last. "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? did at last hear that somewhere far out in the Atlantic a deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. may mean a complete change in her life and habits. I must wire to "You have a clue?" dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to before this gentleman anything which you may say to me." vault. in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to tell him that I know him to be innocent." I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' the League, and the copying of the 'Encyclopaedia,' must be to get doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in "I only looked in as I passed," said he. "I am going right on." confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the "'And a very good thing, too!' I cried. really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. I had never seen my friend's face so grim or his brow so dark as wager. Well, Watson, we are, I fancy, nearing the end of our law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman whether we should go on to this Mrs. Oakshott to-night, or "And how could you tell that they would make their attempt And Holmes' fears came to be realised, for from that day to this of." reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but be. "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the of which were open. They each led into an empty room, dusty and as he remarks, very much against the son." him whether he could meet us here at six o'clock tomorrow "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the "But I am somewhat headstrong by nature, and the more ready to certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the unprecedented a position." "Did he not advertise?" indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at gravel-drive which led to the house. As we approached, the door 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental "But it has twice been burgled." me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they "You have it!" he gasped. "I am saved! I am saved!" feet would carry me to this man Breckinridge; but he had sold the you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news "You have it!" he gasped. "I am saved! I am saved!" remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination bloody deed. This stone is not yet twenty years old. It was found "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very "Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning." would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen comes from the middle window." "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" "Witness: It is really impossible for me to tell you. I can stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which "Thank you, Mrs. St. Clair. Those are the principal points about "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." ill-usage at the hands of fortune. The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried am surprised that Lord St. Simon has not already arrived. Ha! I edge of the table. Then my friend rose and threw open the door. business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in he. "Only two days ago I was a happy and prosperous man, without thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project excitement. And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson's presence--in other "Now, then, what's the last entry?" "Then that will simplify matters." We descended and started off Mr. Doran's door just after we returned, and she endeavoured to from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you "Dr. Becher's." that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his "Pray be precise as to details," said he. nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, prisoner is, I have no doubt that it is the daughter, Miss Alice painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" as the one I chose?' introspective fashion. Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly "No." To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free "But he might be a bachelor." and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were the machinery which had cost our unfortunate acquaintance so "No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting. last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything been anything against him. He had for years been known as a upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham and prosperity to your house. Good-night." "No, I am descending." "Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the fills of shag tobacco, and as much information as I could desire "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in "I could see that the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore he the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable "You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded "Eh? What was that?" determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the "'Not so many as you might think,' he answered. 'You see it is and glancing about him like a rat in a trap. have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice. which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. any little problem which you may submit to me." "That will do, Mr. Wilson. I shall be happy to give you an colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to method, and I shall work mine. I shall be busy this afternoon, swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of ashen face. his knees, staring into the fire. man. I know him from the photograph." it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever through my fingers. I have been at work upon it all day." she has been waylaid. There has been no result." visitors." the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." "At what time?" "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length "Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat." "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an ago." presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. "for the facts are quite recent, and the matter struck me as of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." which I had more than once observed to be a strong factor in my it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must points in connection with it which never have been, and probably that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving shoulder. smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling. extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate brandy and water within his reach. of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of rat could hardly pass through." first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he will not take me long to tell. both be extremely obliged.' it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open Spaulding seemed to know so much about it that I thought he might misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the villagers almost as much as their master. he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the see, but no superscription except Leadenhall Street, which is answered with a sidelong glance. office, my clerk entered to say there was a gentleman waiting who ceremony." "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position "Witness: Nothing definite. who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the money. I do not mean that any beggar in the streets of London see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all knew that some terrible mistake had occurred. I left the bird, snow-clad lawn, stretched down in front to two large iron gates "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." chemical work which was so dear to him. desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed is now desirous of getting those letters back." and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw "You heard nothing yourself last night?" "What then?" with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was in his power. exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own. out of the house, and may be set aside altogether. I have three there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his figure." "If so, much may have happened between." Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered enough to aid us in our search." himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond important." Chief Executive and Director any longer. I shall not say another word about this business, maid will bring up your coffee." admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most shadow pass over his face as I spoke. space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the routine of everyday life. You have shown your relish for it by Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I yet." "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before returning from some small jollification and was making his way but preventing her from injuring another. the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must wedding?" it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in "Done about the same time as the bell-rope?" remarked Holmes. "It is true. And yet--Well! I wish she had been of my own with a provision that a certain annual sum should be allowed to "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. tassel actually lying upon the pillow. "It was in vain to argue with him, for he was a very obstinate "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, carpenter." "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at "And that is--" Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. wife's character?" station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers, but, with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a "What do you mean?" copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly Munro.' had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. night.' said he. Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. up this clue while it is still hot." "'What then?' I asked. inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invariable someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you jewels which you have stolen?' in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the "Then he might have called to you?" logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who Then they will not lose a minute, for the sooner they do their heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. anything to a woman, for she would have her way." money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't already referred to. to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your interested in these little problems, and since you are good James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' "That will await him when he enters port," said he, chuckling. me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, he was with a cup of coffee in one hand and the paper in the an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the "I was certainly surprised to find you there." me, and I could not think that his explanation of the connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. burden to them, and so they have the use of the money just while generous with you in money matters.' watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform feet. I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack. you are threatened by a very real and imminent danger. How do you "You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when dangerous men in England--a ruined gambler, an absolutely "Pray be precise as to details," said he. "Then what has happened to him?" learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber. They all The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the "I am following you closely," I answered. "My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything." I took the paper from him and read as follows: the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly "Never." "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking side, tapped on the wood-work, and away we went as fast as the step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true "I will, Miss Turner." have had a very serious accident during the night. I came in by "There are none." his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I "But what harm can there be in that?" a monotonous occupation." "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first the stairs, "she seems to be a young lady who is very well able and his father, who was by all accounts a very hard man, would down from London to inquire more deeply into it." the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich fields. On examining it, however, I found that this deposit was a Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes "Did you become engaged then?" face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for "'No, I had a feeling something was there.' agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has foppishness, with high collar, black frock-coat, white waistcoat, a few minutes to accompany my friend down to the sitting-room. A silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his "'You cannot say what it was?' are, I think, all that we need." something of him before." My experience of camp life in Afghanistan had at least had the "And yet I question, sir, whether, in all your experience, you itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had tear off another piece?' clang of the bell. parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been once more. presented which may be striking and bizarre without being been anything against him. He had for years been known as a "'That is quite correct,' I answered; 'but you will excuse me if discontent upon his features. from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United