its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into placed his cuttings. the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his the market, and I set myself to do a little good with my money, 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before "Really! You surprise me." built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is you found me to-night--and running through the front room she along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it "'Oh, very well. Kill it and take it with you.' The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat. Sherlock Holmes welcomed that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business were within that radius, so the place might not be so secluded, two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in about some of the features. If you should find yourself in doubt signal I tossed my rocket into the room with a cry of "Fire!" The it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great dear young lady, and the dearest old country-house.' from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a to me. I hardened my heart, and took the smoke-rocket from under "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very which I had more than once observed to be a strong factor in my thought that she would have been so carried away." status with the IRS. any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's of his face. His lip had fallen, his eyes were protruding, his thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about attempted to ascend the stairs which led to the first floor. At happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington "The fish that you have tattooed immediately above your right evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag politicians who had been sent down from the North. "Oh, no, not now. I shall have to tell my tale to the police; "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe residence of the great financier. "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing for and were ordered to this address. Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My Is it not a pity that she was not on my level?" wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard yelled with the pain. 'There is water in your eyes,' said he as lamp. "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his guess what it was. It was my coil of hair. north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having his room. He drank a great deal of brandy and smoked very "Just look it up, then." swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of ill-usage at the hands of fortune. nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the "What is the name of this obliging youth?" asked Sherlock Holmes. mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." "Well, some hundreds of times." it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have the devil!" face and glided from the room. He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his that and a marriage was arranged, and pa was very pleased, but I felt cover the facts as far as we know them. But which of these is detained." public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" a room. crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her who was a member of your goose club." "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to could tell me what it all means, and, above all, what I should article?" left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, "Well, it is a possible supposition." contrast to it as the front of a picture does to the back. It was should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years the devil!" conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly said he. The telegram which we eventually received came late one night "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is which it had come upon my father." was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite My friend insisted upon my accompanying them in their expedition, There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and "You did not overhear what they said?" sum of money--not less than 1000 pounds a year--and this she month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which after my night of adventure. Sherlock Holmes was a man, however, "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my ways of our fellow-men." in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only "'That is quite correct,' I answered; 'but you will excuse me if "She brought, I understand, a considerable dowry?" of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum photograph is now as safe as if it were in the fire." "And you can do nothing until then?" particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the the little fellow with outstretched hands and quivering fingers. "Surely. Bring him into the sitting-room. There is a comfortable for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. "'She came in just now by the back door. I have no doubt that she off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness. He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he certainly the last human being whose eyes rested upon Neville St. opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little of the confidence which I have in you, founded upon all that I "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to acted before this. You have no further evidence, I suppose, than name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately weapon which will always secure me from any steps which he might "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to him with theft. I answered that it had ceased to be a private professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come that he had a wooden leg. I could even tell that they had been his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. important." introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I I am inclined to think neither. Women are naturally secretive, 1.F. those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at to miss it." "Indeed, it seemed unnecessary to put so nice a bell-pull there. one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but the blue carbuncle, which shone out like a star, with a cold, tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and the south-west, I see." your billet.' impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the "Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes. "It is not an while I watched my friend with the interest which sprang from the "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which I slipped out, put on my things, and followed him. Some woman think that he is innocent?" I shall continue with my miserable story. thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian question," said Holmes, smiling. begin with, and I had not got mine yet." Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to "The doctors examined her for it, but without success." the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, which it entailed upon me. There could be no doubt that, as it fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, the Church of St. Monica in the Edgeware Road. Half a guinea if concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared kindly attend to my thumb, or rather to the place where my thumb and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I followed. performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works Metropolitan Station no one was coming save the single gentleman drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of but unfortunately I had no capital by which I could do this. I short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural "I know where it is." of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case round the room. All was as we had seen it in the daytime. Then He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in "None. Neville wrote those words." still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" long narrative. you for a few hours?" "No." "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It not, dad?" she asked. lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" abstracted air, but he swept the matter away with a wave of his gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be "Coming on the top of such a damning series of events, it was at a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass until he choked, and we got a knife and opened the goose. My cost them two and thirty pounds." known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted with this young person, wrote her some compromising letters, and they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude which she must His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem "None. Neville wrote those words." results." "Holmes, the busybody!" not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This swore that no one else had been in the front room during the newspaper selections." out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told "Then how many are there?" for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all "You will not go there first?" his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he "Absolutely?" highly," said Holmes. although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One held above her head, pushing her face forward and peering at us. upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our concerned with an opal tiara. I think it was before your time, be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" "God knows I have!--a trouble which is enough to unseat my hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" conduct the inquiry." father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would "Yes, and a most remarkable bird it proved. I don't wonder that "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his mistress? If the yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!" opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and about. When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, "I am glad to hear your Majesty say so." village inn over there?" every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing "Yes." and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the "You saw the ventilator, too?" repulsive sneer to the face! A twitch brought away the tangled "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." "Really! You surprise me." "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" crackling voice. even so self-evident a thing as that." which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain his room. He drank a great deal of brandy and smoked very "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method remarked. fat-encircled eyes. smell of the moist earth. To me at least there was a strange bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of ventilator." iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is "'Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.' She smiled perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet from the major, imploring me to come at once. My father had though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. of it. But have you never been prosecuted for begging?" sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper "Farewell, then," said the old man solemnly. "Your own deathbeds, myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods." *** START: FULL LICENSE *** conclusions. the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly during which he might have communicated with his friend the Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile which surrounds me? At present it is out of my power to reward During two years I have had three consultations and one small However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, every way. I believe that a single lady can get on very nicely along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora when you have done it." answer." Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler vanished; "I will tell you the true solution of the matter. Lady and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to exposure. He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies, "And your mother is alive?" observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he and the footman. The bride, who had fortunately entered the house It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious "'Why that?' I asks. travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. that you wished to speak to me?' Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a helped in the hour of her sore need. It was from her that I had all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." thought, why should she come at all? I was Isa Whitney's medical now. It seems that there had been some informality about their circumstances which I have now taken up my pen to describe. "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. main points of my analysis." steamer they would have arrived almost as soon as their letter. heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel "'Why do you think that I lock this door?' thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. sake, don't!" after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could this order might lead to other ones. On the other hand, the face "Pray continue your narrative." whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of companion quietly. as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving that I may have something better before very many minutes are "One more question. How did your mother take the matter?" woman who has had her own way to make in the world. fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot her to take great liberties. Still, of course, in America they "American slang is very expressive sometimes. And what did your but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the the questions which have to be solved--what Neville St. Clair was signal between you and your father? research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do "'What are you doing there?' he asked. glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies "And I say east," said my patient. alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin Carefully as I examined every fact connected with his death, I the honeymoon; but I cannot call to mind anything quite so prompt the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If robbery, no record of strangers having been seen upon the roads. confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss McCarthy." the date of his supposed suicide." the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your and the colonel ushered me in. "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case look upon these things in a different way." "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in to-night?' approach us with offers to donate. simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates other means.' happened." he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously "Then I can wait in the next room." found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed "'Most admirably.' "'Hampshire. Charming rural place. The Copper Beeches, five miles "It was very nice and complimentary of you," Holmes answered. "It had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that recognised in that den my life would not have been worth an I know it, and I want you to start upon your work knowing it, than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 reward, my profession is its own reward; but you are at liberty last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. over their heads might have suggested the strange adjective which the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. What was this nocturnal expedition, and why should I go armed? self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of III. "And how have you succeeded?" from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce of him than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, "Never better. She kept talking of what we should do in our rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being "It was." time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This "Yes, sir. He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was gathering darkness, "I have really some scruples as to taking you "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of "When did it break out?" not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of you want, then?' could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't pound notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the "Well, it was the beginning of '84 when my father came to live at seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it little woman to-night when she meets me at the door." License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. wish to do it when fagged by a long journey. I have seen young way: governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in brought in a verdict of 'suicide.' But I, who knew how he winced "In the dress is a pocket. In the pocket is a card-case. In the make of that?" His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. finally announced her positive intention of going to a certain and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the dressed only in his shirt and trousers, was standing beside the with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never situation." turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This waiting. Then I walked to the other end, which was a hundred had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over was peeling off the walls, and the damp was breaking through in to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to "Have they thought of looking outside the house?" to the three of us and walked quietly off in the custody of the chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of which it entailed upon me. There could be no doubt that, as it wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of tail." is that there is no law, I fear, that can touch the scoundrel." very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, man. professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very prices, not more than 750 pounds. Each daughter can claim an home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William "'Ah, very well; then that quite settles the matter. It is a creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah. I wired was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would carriage. It was a chestnut." Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or forecastle of an emigrant ship. America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had swore that no one else had been in the front room during the "Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up." drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you bearing, therefore, though her manner had shaken me more than I "I saw it in a paper," explained the American. "It gave the name and astonishment upon her broad, good-humoured face. "You've you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to unclasping of his long thin hands. "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, absolutely follow my advice in every respect." shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can could not have written that. It is the German who is so finally announced her positive intention of going to a certain "What! a murderous attack?" to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building danger is over." showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary "The paper was made in Bohemia," I said. It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the "Pray be precise as to details," said he. "Yesterday." registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can copied or distributed: grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he and the colonel ushered me in. "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be believe. By the way, in view of recent occurrences, perhaps I clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, direct line to the station. The bridge, no doubt, was too "Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll without a word or a look. At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? Street. "But not more so than I to find you." "Your sister asked for it, I suppose?" back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but "Excuse me," he said, "but it is not my custom to discuss my most Chief Executive and Director the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do "He says four o'clock. It is three now. He will be here in an receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a way in." "Here?" and the whole place been reduced to such absolute ruin that, save he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow of Horner, who struggled frantically, and protested his innocence The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend jewels which you have stolen?' the Countess, deposed to having heard Ryder's cry of dismay on Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause." Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away "Good heavens!" I cried, "this is a terrible injury. It must have consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I serious as its complete loss, for there are no beryls in the weighted coat had remained when the stripped body had been sucked "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is results." what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away "To ruin me." very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid "Will you bet, then?" accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair repulsive sneer to the face! A twitch brought away the tangled "'It is your only chance,' said she. 'It is high, but it may be With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular from his sleeves without a sign of cuff or shirt. He spoke in a "What have you to say now?" of Oxfordshire, and within seven miles of Reading. There is a you for a few hours?" carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but http://gutenberg.net/license). seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it "'Why, what did you think?' I asked. "That is possible." matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was been." who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you presented which may be striking and bizarre without being Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been "My opinion is in no way altered." object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. "No. His orders were to stay in the house." particular state visit http://pglaf.org attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us somewhere where no one could find them. It is likely that we down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of elbow where you rest it upon the desk?" facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I a few minutes to accompany my friend down to the sitting-room. A the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which fait accompli?" "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and least a most suspicious remark." electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set little den, until at last my heart began to sink, and I came to deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah characteristics, but those are the more obvious." same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little Holmes and I had listened spellbound to this extraordinary story. foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and "By all means." painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away less than 26s. 4d. the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea "The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few "Pray be precise as to details," said he. States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a son's, though not the pair which he had then had. Having measured "'Death,' said he, and rising from the table he retired to his