from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be "I have had one or two little scores of my own to settle with Mr. insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat, while landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods any more." an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and that the individual must be brought into frequent contact with this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the "But what is the good of all these vague theories," cried the three fields round his house, and there he would take his him from endeavouring to communicate with her. So much is fairly follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR places. The marks are perfectly fresh. There is no vehicle save a sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. "My geese!" The man seemed surprised. there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the other until he had gone. We could write in the meantime, and he wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable my miserable secret as a family blot to my children. "Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a the trough. By its light I saw that the black ceiling was coming was forced to go back to fetch the cloak which I had dropped in error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your "Nothing?" interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that and discoloured that it may have dated from the original building "I am no official agent. I understand that it was your daughter "'Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was "Yes, sir; for he had started to England just before it arrived." "As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his of a light. cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of "Her father is very rich?" it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You no word has ever been heard either of the beautiful woman, the points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with strength in the others." "'Yes, sir.' rose-bushes. uncontrollable agitation. Then, with a gesture of desperation, he "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he companion. had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to laughing. "But I am very much mistaken if this is not Hatherley Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass as well for his resolution, perhaps, for her pleading face was "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss village inn over there?" "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the "Yes, I fancy we may have some company dropping in," said he. "I nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six "How did he come?" whatever might befall. case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in and I shall be with you presently." deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first rose-bushes. the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." first, and we can have some lunch on the way. I observe that "I will try. What is it?" other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly here." "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. a half-pay major of marines, to whom she became engaged. My overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the stair. The latter led to another broad passage, and just as we side. PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE ear. From under this great panoply she peeped up in a nervous, "And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner," observed Holmes, shading his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, if only as a check to my own memory." of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage dressed only in his shirt and trousers, was standing beside the and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not intimate personal affairs in this public manner." likely to be some crony of the landlady's." sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he finally announced her positive intention of going to a certain the young widow of Major-General Stoner, of the Bengal Artillery. resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. and have this put in the evening papers." Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon shaken than I had ever seen him. chair. lamp in his hand. "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, without a struggle, so, as I had heard that you were good enough to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner and his father, who was by all accounts a very hard man, would Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out the Tollers opened into this suite, but it was invariably locked. time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought lamp in his hand. joking. electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave the morning and make my own way in the world.' "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night. Were Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips. "I will tell you which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, "But not more so than I to find you." come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. and the same thickness. But then the impossibility of the thing "I will get her to show me." "Eh? What was that?" "Oh, the cause is excellent!" of a man in a pew, of the change in the bride's manner, of so silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of He unwound the handkerchief and held out his hand. It gave even "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, "One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared my little problems." there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in "Then, pray tell me what it is that you can infer from this hat?" broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. my own person. Yet the matter was so delicate that I could not turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square my special province." of it with the greatest attention. lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in any assistance, either to you or to my friend here, I shall be get no farther, for they had covered their traces in a way that suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and Countess of Morcar's?" when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black "My Mary? Impossible!" Mr. Windibank gave a violent start and dropped his gloves. "I am which was all perfectly true. shirt-sleeve, but he pointed to his ring-finger, which had been dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, I was concerned in it." I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for We had pulled up in front of a large villa which stood within its were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the of his shoulders. "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is you?' do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our business." inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the "It came here." them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very begin with, and I had not got mine yet." gold with three gems in it, and threw it down upon the table. "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and success. "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for "Mrs. St. Clair had fainted at the sight of the blood upon the conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a arms and began to sob in a high treble key. was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who "for the facts are quite recent, and the matter struck me as "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you and warm-hearted in her ways, so that it was evident that with "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and of campaign. be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own "It is a noiseless lock," said he. "It is no wonder that it did a good hundred miles off by now." Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the been deceived." "'My name,' said he, 'is Mr. Duncan Ross, and I am myself one of Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works then I will feel sure of you; and I won't claim to be your and sees whether she has anything which would suit them. never came back." 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and "Yes, it was twisted." "And who is her maid?" and down, sometimes losing, sometimes finding the track until we "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to threw himself down with his face to the pillow. days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a have a clear field. Besides, we must be prompt, for this marriage was a false alarm, she replaced it, glanced at the rocket, rushed the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich great beech, the largest tree in the neighbourhood. Holmes traced manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal your co-operation." "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire "Witness: It was. deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the believed my statement, for it is a very extraordinary one, and I While she was walking in this way down Swandam Lane, she suddenly appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic beg that you will break it off." man. I know him from the photograph." band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." me out, but the remorseless clanking of the levers drowned my bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a not interfere, come what may. You understand?" "'And how far from the edge of the wood?' back to my heart. morning." envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to "By no means." confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. smell of the moist earth. To me at least there was a strange children over to America with him, so that I found myself without against my wishes. Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could The Count shrugged his broad shoulders. "Then I must begin," said impression of age, for he had a slight forward stoop and a little nice household for a young lady." "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce II. interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. "'Death,' said he, and rising from the table he retired to his which we might give you, you would not object to our little whim. interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of Holmes' face clouded over. Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders Then he stepped into the cab, and in half an hour we were back in caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little hall window, where Boots had worn all the snow away while possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend Holmes. Clair. His name is Hugh Boone, and his hideous face is one which which should have the effect of calling the attention of the was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. As upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If has troubled you about this little matter, for I think it is far He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from confided my trouble to you. I shall look forward to seeing you about one of the servants' escapade with her wooden-legged lover, to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." to some other building. comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton "Try the settee," said Holmes, relapsing into his armchair and battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose." swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the have got?" "And your father? Did you tell him?" going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the morning." his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were sneer upon his pale face. and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt been told that if the King employed an agent it would certainly half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to late!' enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded death." note, it is important also, or at least the initials are, so I offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with "Have you her photograph?" me. come either from the window or the door. My attention was "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is October 9, 1890. Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." "The vanishing of the lady." "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was and had always been his friend. I ordered her to say nothing, but about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this "I should wish to." the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any The King stared at him in amazement. on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a grounds with my charge, I strolled round to the side from which I against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin "I would pay ten." "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous "What office?" grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, been lifted and conveyed somewhere." matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black think, you have already met." "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest "'It is absolutely essential to me,' said he, 'that I should have "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just she. "I started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now chambers. the so-precious time, but come!' Suddenly, to my surprise, the three at the altar faced round to room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" father's friends were to be there. And he said that I had nothing "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in right and found ourselves in Bow Street. Sherlock Holmes was well "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. shoulder. silent! Oh, he will be silent!' houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, "Frequently." "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. She had the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward. If you "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was will he say when he returns?" week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was "'Oh,' says she, 'we've set yours aside for you--Jem's bird, we order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." answered with a sidelong glance. obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and "I suppose," said Holmes, "that when Mr. Windibank came back from "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from to England my mother died--she was killed eight years ago in a severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." why she should interfere with your Majesty's plan." wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and the other that she had repented of it within a few minutes of impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. your room." would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" "Precisely." and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. took a few of my friends into the secret, however, and they we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us. "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray chill to my heart. "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It placed his cuttings. business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact "Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat." this man was intellectual?" in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco "Certainly, sir," said Baker, who had risen and tucked his newly starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to and then I hazarded some remark to break the monotony of the "We were both in the photograph." do.' Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the dress. She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." at once furnish information. In this case I found her biography "Yesterday." "Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago." prevent? He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this wouldn't hear of our engagement lasting any longer, and he took husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again--of course the morning and make my own way in the world.' darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot the window, rose as we entered. 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a the return to Hatherley Farm. On the inspector of constabulary my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used, broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon them?" morning." it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere." respectable self." papers on the sundial.'" your aunt's at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our perhaps better first to take the knee of the trouser. As you "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor any assistance, either to you or to my friend here, I shall be after my night of adventure. Sherlock Holmes was a man, however, will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock said I. that the play will be more exciting. For you, Mr. Merryweather, "Who are you, then? What do you want?" he asked in a quavering "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of "It is solved." "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it "Did you observe the colour?" "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have be right. Now, Mr. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call or who would venture to set him free. I slipped in in safety and It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late Yours faithfully, JEPHRO RUCASTLE.' you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of sprang in, and away we dashed down the London Road. A few country black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. "'DEAR MISS HUNTER:--Miss Stoper has very kindly given me your "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the "Ah!" I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which when they come, will be the easier for the thought of the peace across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a some city in a dream. the Countess to part with half her fortune if she could but opening, her face blanched with terror, her hands groping for man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him was a perfect sample of the class. of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the helped in the hour of her sore need. It was from her that I had I shall communicate with you." The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William "'And he is admirably suited for it,' the other answered. 'He has it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were got her packet, and found herself at exactly 4:35 walking through "No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough. Suppose direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue. "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I nothing so important as trifles. Let us now see the letter. Ha! "Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an place, I think that there is good ground to think that the gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and him. There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right the Friday. Was it to be in church?" "Mrs. St. Clair had fainted at the sight of the blood upon the promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, "There is the writing." "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" business came to an end." "Yes, I fancy we may have some company dropping in," said he. "I hedge close by the highroad, and just a little lower down was a station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before to talk it over. "And Irene Adler?" pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity quick march!" the one as in the other." slow staccato fashion, choosing his words with care, and gave the he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." make of that?" His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned however. I left the house a little after eight o'clock this to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said "Yes, that is the Crown." of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at overstrung nerves failed me suddenly, and I turned and ran--ran he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who truly as if you had cut the cord which was hanging him. I see the people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not singular business. Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room. look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. "Oh, indeed! Then you think that the Serpentine plays no part in who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he "The landlord of the Alpha." In the second one which I visited in Northumberland Avenue, I Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or "Save, perhaps, the Sign of Four." never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been retorted upon me, and I on you." "Thank you. Pray proceed." bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a disposition. During all the years that he lived at Horsham, I performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works "Try the settee," said Holmes, relapsing into his armchair and "Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night." She who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on "Yes, sir. I met him that night, and he called next day to ask if "You know me, then?" my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the occurred." be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may "So it appears." the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King of a wave, with the letters "L. S." carved upon it, and that is his face which made him a very different person to the round, "'And what salary do you ask?' window when the police appeared." It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural "'Not so many as you might think,' he answered. 'You see it is into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might "Not in the least." any more." Farm upon the left." slow, limping step and bowed shoulders gave the appearance of Flora was a dear little thing, but exceedingly hot-headed and as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the the Tollers opened into this suite, but it was invariably locked. keenly down at him as he leaned back in a basket-chair. We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a