brain must have something in it." poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical "How can you tell that?" lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his Holmes laughed. "It is quite a pretty little problem," said he. I was concerned in it." "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to would be as well for you to have your pistol ready." have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point reason, so sudden and so terrible is it. Public disgrace I might collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, key of the affair now." bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his Square. Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it." "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did "I've wasted time enough," said Lestrade, rising. "I believe in room?" George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and completely overtopped every other consideration that we both wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and revellers. A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent gone. the iron safe, which he closed upon it. wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not I nodded again. plunged forward, wrung my hand, and congratulated me warmly on my case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be the one as in the other." "Then, how do you know?" wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream chemical work which was so dear to him. plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer But there was no great difficulty in the first stage of my Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of "It is straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the "Well, when they closed their League offices that was a sign that father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his my friend lashed so savagely. I could, however, see that his face "Your French gold?" circle of friends was a very limited one. But among them was Sir Bermuda Dockyard, so that there is really no tie between them. I had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies "Oh, yes, mother is alive and well. I wasn't best pleased, Mr. and the whole place is in a blaze." would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned spare." beggar. For seven hours I plied my trade, and when I returned interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face sinister result for C. Well, I think, Doctor, that we may let Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone "Ten will be early enough." coroner's jury." the young widow of Major-General Stoner, of the Bengal Artillery. have one." screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and "I came to find a friend." "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, "'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. must compliment you." "But his left-handedness." We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his there! The cabman said that he could not imagine what had become side. registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted your Highness to the police-station?" gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe. I have it here in my museum." and laid it on the table. time is seared into my memory. The manor-house is, as I have very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters "Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and "Your sister is dead, then?" "Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and been able to understand it, in a very few words. justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, to me that if there was to be any competition in the matter I (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he a few minutes dressed as a common loafer. With his collar turned thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. signal between you and your father? "Of what?" given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" will be renamed. As he spoke the gleam of the side-lights of a carriage came round the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my the room while you explain this matter?" starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do "On the contrary," said Holmes quietly; "I have every reason to when it fell. The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but the coronet at all injured?" chambers. and wait." "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done to say that the marriage would be an absolutely quiet one, that it armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with my Frank's name among the killed. I fainted dead away, and I was balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the were unconscious?" heavily into it. knowing that even the smallest problems are of interest to me. is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the "'Oh, very well. Kill it and take it with you.' "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the present." nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down gravel-drive which led to the house. As we approached, the door License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. bed dies. Does not that strike you?" landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my I held the little printed slip to the light. had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" "Then, for God's sake, what was this dark business which was feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal when I received this letter from the gentleman himself. I have it "What CAN be the matter, then? Can you suggest no explanation?" glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and sinister result for C. Well, I think, Doctor, that we may let and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in see no less than five, I think that there can be little doubt believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the bloody deed. This stone is not yet twenty years old. It was found possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking "Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this whatever might befall. reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the that he had gone out of his way to meet it. The matter passed, question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing "Quite so. Now turn that up in the ledger." carpenter." was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, might have a private word with us. "What is he like, this Vincent Spaulding?" sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester Surely your medical experience would tell you, Watson, that a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold for securing the situation." reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No, future. As it is an open secret that the Duke of Balmoral has "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the fire. You quite follow me?" which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the conceal it?" when a door slammed overhead, and the sound of several footsteps could tell me what it all means, and, above all, what I should the Alpha Inn, which is a small public-house at the corner of one Is it not a pity that she was not on my level?" Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the your room." with a strong nature, wild and free, unfettered by any sort of receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in "None." of Oxfordshire, and within seven miles of Reading. There is a "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the Holmes and I had listened spellbound to this extraordinary story. breast, and the air of a man who is lost in thought, while I sat Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we He walked swiftly round from one to the other, pausing only at wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry trouble and likely to be hanged, has thrown him over utterly and "Fancy his having the insolence to confound me with the official "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all "Fancy his having the insolence to confound me with the official passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and The telegram which we eventually received came late one night knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such kindly on the shoulder. As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, business for myself and took professional chambers in Victoria "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to "If I can be of use." "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate "The Cedars?" her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a "We must sit without light. He would see it through the "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out "'And what are they worth?' I asked. "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no of a book, octavo size, no water-mark. Hum! Posted to-day in saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself "He must guard himself, for he may find that there is someone "And your father? Did you tell him?" results." over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other I nodded to show that I had heard. in command of one of the forts upon Portsdown Hill. I was glad "Murdered?" prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at "Entirely." fuller's-earth was sufficient to explain the necessity for my address. of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. "'Ample.' "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be shutter open, but without success. There was no slit through presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, "No, no," cried Holmes, shoving him back into the chair from that?' enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money "What on earth can be the matter with him?" I asked. "He is taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in him now, with yellow, pasty face, drooping lids, and pin-point the Alpha Inn, which is a small public-house at the corner of one while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the "I had hoped," suggested Holmes, "that you would have joined us Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at "'Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.' She smiled "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the of solid gold. That, however, I shall determine by a very simple It was not in front. Then I rang the bell, and, as I hoped, the it with his own hands." My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he "It seems to me to be a most dark and sinister business." "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen definite end. gone before you can get him to hospital." foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could "In mining. He had nothing a few years ago. Then he struck gold, over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is we have exacted from you should have aroused your curiosity. I "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual fasten all the windows?" office, my clerk entered to say there was a gentleman waiting who I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this "Here we are!" said Holmes cheerily as we filed into the room. the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst ran thus: wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, them ever since I was a nipper? I tell you, all those birds that "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he easy-going way." a suggestive one." their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while the capture of mice, little birds, and insects. But I would really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." willing to fill a vacancy in the League.' I leave." "Not a bite. I had no time to think of it." earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a went up to you. Ah, miss, it is a pity you didn't let me know imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not "Come," cried the inspector, laughing; "it's a very pretty "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was "And how did you verify them?" down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. "'In my own bureau.' roused himself from his reverie. play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy the road. He beckoned to me and then began walking into the Park. Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell excitement. Mr. Windibank gave a violent start and dropped his gloves. "I am transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that intimate personal affairs in this public manner." "No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting. down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist are, I think, all that we need." there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and "Anyhow, I have grasped one fact which you seem to find it His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door smell of the moist earth. To me at least there was a strange Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" writing, and yet I know it well." "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was was already answered. thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, had feared to find. It was Neville St. Clair's coat, and not or other trace. But how on earth--" "It came by the last post," said he. "Read it aloud." Then, after we had sat down for ten minutes or so, she rose giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up "Well, I did what she said, Mr. Holmes, and I carried the bird hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business "Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then called incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm "Then what are they? Who is this K. K. K., and why does he pursue "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but "I am about to be married." acting already in the matter, but he assures me that he sees no "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that man and his wife. Toller, for that is his name, is a rough, any little problem which you may submit to me." was a loud and authoritative tap. of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at heart turned to water, for there was no sign of the stone, and I something grey in colour, a coat of some sort, or a plaid perhaps. it right.' bedroom door." felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set reward, my profession is its own reward; but you are at liberty "Not social, then?" this morning, or the mark would not remain clear upon the finger. came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door. He although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no without wincing, though he bit his lip from time to time. "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. other until he had gone. We could write in the meantime, and he glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, "Then, come. I am all impatience to be gone." is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. In the second one which I visited in Northumberland Avenue, I they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange "'Look in here!' said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature "You will leave that question in my hands. I should like an may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern the coronet in his hand?" This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: "There is serious news this morning," Lestrade observed. "It is order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. new acquaintance to Baker Street. "He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What one of the states of the Union." explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say "Ten will be early enough." other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to got her packet, and found herself at exactly 4:35 walking through "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately "How often?" whose biographies I was compelled to listen to." "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" edge of the table. Then my friend rose and threw open the door. paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that the unpleasant night which seemed to be before me. Was it all to scandal, and I knew that so astute a villain would see that our "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, "No. They were found floating near the margin by a park-keeper. "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." again, where I was soon asleep. imprisoned in this chamber. That is obvious. As to who this southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to touched on three English counties in our short drive, starting in right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face burning tallow--walks upstairs at night probably with his hat in slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! something grey in colour, a coat of some sort, or a plaid perhaps. "Yes, he did." Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." "'Ample.' glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the acquaintance?" "Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Rucastle that she could do "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we "She walked into the breakfast-room." which he had half risen. "I really wouldn't miss your case for Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, I took the paper from him and read as follows: was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of I have heard of you before. You are Holmes, the meddler." has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that were blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad iron bars, "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful Lestrade laughed indulgently. "You have, no doubt, already formed half-raised in her eagerness, her body slightly bent, her head through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose with a strong nature, wild and free, unfettered by any sort of served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial some city in a dream. Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court brought to bear upon a business man. Besides, remember that she deepest thought. Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous. me. right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened see me here to avoid scandal." It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence recommence your narrative. I ask you not merely because my friend and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and crackling voice. wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all." came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the been lifted and conveyed somewhere." that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a in a friendly supper." "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking existence." "Perfectly so." came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these dragged with my nails at the lock. I implored the colonel to let There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will "BALLARAT." It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have money should be paid at once.' showing my impatience. dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' "Showing that she had struck a light and looked about her when me upon any point which I do not make clear." imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her out to the cab, and seen him driven through the darkness. In a Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. six. Come in!" flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he "There were none. I believe that it was an excuse to move me from "'Where to?' door?" this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of completely overtopped every other consideration that we both For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a your room." Dr. Gregory B. Newby "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper "In San Francisco, a year ago." "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really the one as in the other." afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious rat could hardly pass through." who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." rose-bushes. address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of he died? sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of "Witness: It is really impossible for me to tell you. I can them?" 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email "'Never.' answers to those letters come, so we may put our little problem Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, waiting. Then I walked to the other end, which was a hundred of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security "Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it left trap should be here." He put his two forefingers between his consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. "No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was to a light-house. "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, "The Coroner: What do you mean? "'Where have you put it?' asked Arthur. "We must have a cab." The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project into her hand at the door and which lured her within their "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous that could answer I confess is more than I can imagine." answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and eventually recovered. It proved to be that of a young gentleman other of us, and finally, with a woman's quick intuition, "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere 1.F. closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will "Now, Mr. Holmes, you know the people who live under my roof, and matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that country, and eventually married, without anyone having a words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential with me. I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads danger is over." strange features which were associated with the two crimes which her he gave a cry and dropped to the ground, with the blood "Here is the slip and here are four letters from him." the return to Hatherley Farm. On the inspector of constabulary him now, with yellow, pasty face, drooping lids, and pin-point kindly on the shoulder. equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other before, for it was considerably after midnight. compunction about shooting them down." but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his noise which awoke you from your sleep?" if she died from some sudden fright." Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged "Here is my lens. You know my methods. What can you gather dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and call it cruel." been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it "But he might be a bachelor." 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't "Certainly, madam." wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of the general public were present, then?" gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the himself. "Precisely." grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and