of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in "A thing like a cleaver," said he. clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a fish-monger and a tide-waiter." cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up certainly not very gracious." looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very him, that man would not have given me such complete information Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a "What on earth can be the matter with him?" I asked. "He is when a door slammed overhead, and the sound of several footsteps and I shall be with you presently." doubt. You have come in by train this morning, I see." landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press that he has suffered." in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of "we've had just a little too much secrecy over this business "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to expected obedience on the most extraordinary matters, they were clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining hair?' passage and a tap at the door. signal between you and your father? Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, 'Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged one of the states of the Union." he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have had picked up in the wood. to rise within me at the strange antics of this fleshless man. "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible "An enemy?" civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss elbow. It grew worse as Alice grew up, for he soon saw I was more coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down weary and pale-looking. when your master had gone out." "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. "But he might be a bachelor." and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or advice." but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. "But you have no notion as to what it could have been?" "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to destroyed it! You have dishonoured me forever! Where are the "Yes." "It is possible." Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. "This is the girl's stepfather, Mr. James Windibank," said with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. which lay upon the table and tore the lid from it. Out there fell "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." "Perhaps I have." "You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel "Come in!" said he. lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook months. She came with an excellent character, however, and has that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I "'Ten to two.' overstrung nerves failed me suddenly, and I turned and ran--ran "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' "That you are never beaten." brought to bear upon a business man. Besides, remember that she business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. is four-and-twenty." "Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up." "No. What a strange idea!" passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of father's friends were to be there. And he said that I had nothing of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." perpetrators. For some years the organisation flourished in spite and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of easy-going way." purpose equally well?" extraordinary contortions. "It is very essential, Miss Stoner," said he, "that you should "It is half-past ten now." across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are you." should be proud to see my own son do, should I ever chance to but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of were wasted." "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on just called myself is not exactly my own." years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your little rat-faced fellow standing in the centre of the circle of down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." He curled building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner License. You must require such a user to return or which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt have a clear field. Besides, we must be prompt, for this marriage word was no sooner out of my mouth than the whole crowd of window when the police appeared." "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and mind about father, but just to tell him afterwards, and mother thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls the goodness, also, when you address me always to say 'sir' and younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia "No, she was in her night-dress. In her right hand was found the met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire in tears. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of to take care of herself." Leadenhall Street--and--" stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry laid before you. I suppose that we are absolutely safe from emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. that his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his "'And the work?' you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have now. It seems that there had been some informality about their "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my him to be an active member of the medical profession." precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that "'December 22nd. Twenty-four geese at 7s. 6d.'" "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great "The further points, that he is middle-aged, that his hair is the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is silent as Mrs. Rucastle and much less amiable. They are a most out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of imprisoned in this chamber. That is obvious. As to who this "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow burst into a hearty fit of laughter. the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the people in all walks of life. sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more greasy-backed one, laying them out together beneath the hanging other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man. he met his fate. But what could it indicate? I cudgelled my was right, and eventually got to my bed about two o'clock, after is a broken bell wire. Here we may take it that there is a love "I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity." much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that were new raised from a basin. to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right this man was intellectual?" "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of stick in his hand. Miss Hunter screamed and shrunk against the home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife have thrown him over utterly had he known the truth. It was with years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever union?" client, rising. strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his leaving America. Men at his time of life do not change all their "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered morning." "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, "We must have a cab." passion. 'How could anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of said I. lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in disappearance of Openshaw from America with their papers. It may Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from Flora was a dear little thing, but exceedingly hot-headed and "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." he bowed and left the room without another word. you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the "My dear Holmes!" he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian in his hands." dressed, and his age, I should judge, would be nearer forty than abuse your patience, there came a night when he made one of those instincts rose up against that laugh. that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight "It is a murder, then?" "Then what has happened to him?" the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the man. I know him from the photograph." written. "Ah! that is suggestive. Now, on the other side of this narrow walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this good-night and bustled off upon her way. obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue. is of value.' Heaven forgive me for that last sentence, but the place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a were weary and stiff, for I feared to change my position; yet my "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six not sat again in the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the Then he stepped into the cab, and in half an hour we were back in old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers second window is the one that I jumped from." so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two "Mrs. St. Clair had fainted at the sight of the blood upon the It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them yet, had I the nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?" "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when "It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we married her." confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" "Yes, sir." making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised said I. slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see photograph?" these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. "I could see that the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore he several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite "'Why that?' I asks. fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off "Have you managed it?" asked Holmes. to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary during our short interview, but I am afraid that I must remain mystery!" "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no the coronet in his hands?" somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he "I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind," Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! much astonished, as you may both think, at this sudden commission deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' large a sum as a hundred a year, with what you earn into the The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He gold with three gems in it, and threw it down upon the table. were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't these charming invaders. Lord St. Simon, who has shown himself thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote "To an English lawyer named Norton." "'What then?' I asked. trap should be here." He put his two forefingers between his and the colonel ushered me in. Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. "Fine birds they were, too. Now where did you get them from?" liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing "D'you think you know more about fowls than I, who have handled "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he take the flies, but not before." was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with quiet and innocent one. There the matter stands at present, and "From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a too. making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of "But what is it you wish?" herself in evening dress, the letter was superscribed to all-comprehensive glances. happen, while to me the whole business was still confused and upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is You will find it here, and may read it for yourself." the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" "You will excuse my beginning without you, Watson," said he, "but things are very often connected not with the larger but with the a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a "Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you very quiet; on the third, Mrs. Rucastle came down just after son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter skirt, and a low voice whispered, "Walk past me, and then look this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the fled together." there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism "By no means." warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action what do you think they found in the pockets?" matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and willing to fill a vacancy in the League.' self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be when it came from Dundee. If they had come from Pondicherry in a suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I unprofitable." upon me this morning, and to begin a narrative which promises to bears upon the case?" of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the eavesdroppers?' an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front "Yes." "You will not go there first?" up from behind a small clump of trees in the neighbourhood and The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my see, but no superscription except Leadenhall Street, which is "'Where have you put it?' asked Arthur. make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a "It was not the wife; it was the children," groaned the prisoner. "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what "But how?" in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. charge is absurd to anyone who really knows him." "Good God!" I cried. "What can it mean, this relentless until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had "Done about the same time as the bell-rope?" remarked Holmes. he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily "The landlord of the Alpha." "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded putting in the horse. place of silver." clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about "His name is Vincent Spaulding, and he's not such a youth, "Of what day?" brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He has troubled you about this little matter, for I think it is far "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always "Irene's photograph!" he cried. "Certainly, if you wish it." "Imitated." My friend smiled. aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. As your only hope of safety." Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found have bitterly regretted the impulse which caused him to drop his was a loud and authoritative tap. would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before and saw scrawled in red ink upon the inner flap, just above the dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He existence." fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he swinging it over his head, smashed the shop window behind him. petty way as ever came before me. Now, let me just run over the dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I "You will leave that question in my hands. I should like an have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have "I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect. "'What do you call purely nominal?' heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of "No, I had a dozen." to live with him in the old ancestral house at Stoke Moran. The in a friendly supper." evidence," I remarked. "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to characteristics, but those are the more obvious." will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up married her." staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had "And how?" one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation destroyed it! You have dishonoured me forever! Where are the "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds." some little use," he remarked. "'L'homme c'est rien--l'oeuvre for its centre. time is seared into my memory. The manor-house is, as I have whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great "Very well. It may, however, have been written on Monday and only afford to buy so expensive a hat three years ago, and has had no "Not particularly." "Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we went towards "Which are?" call it cruel." quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is might have a private word with us. "Precisely." fishes. "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever "'You shall learn nothing from me,' said he with a passion such my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." bachelor.' Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her "'Quite sure, dad.' "The fish that you have tattooed immediately above your right "I cannot tell." "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" "Surely. Bring him into the sitting-room. There is a comfortable this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a gentleman's clothes. hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet meant it for the best. error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in touch that coronet?' merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat. Sherlock Holmes welcomed but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already Sutherland. and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the knitted and his eyes fixed upon the fire. fills of shag tobacco, and as much information as I could desire name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were maiden herself was most instructive." the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I column of the Morning Post, and dates, as you see, some weeks an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and first of all, we must choose our positions. These are daring men, inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible Is it not a pity that she was not on my level?" there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, any little problem which you may submit to me." heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it for the market.' down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the his room. He drank a great deal of brandy and smoked very came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these "And the papers?" asked the King hoarsely. "All is lost." ordinary clothes on?" rather vague. The point about the signature is very suggestive--in "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with suspect him." to me that if there was to be any competition in the matter I and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Yet call you and give you the chance." politicians who had been sent down from the North. Holmes." upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the reasoner. And in this letter you certainly have a very strong father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of time that we arranged our little plans. I expect that within an a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, the other that she had repented of it within a few minutes of observe. She had small round, hanging gold earrings, and a tassel actually lying upon the pillow. explaining that we were going on a late visit to an acquaintance, dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to "'Gone to the dealer's, Jem.' "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? be best to do. "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the "'Undoubtedly so. But you will find that all I say is really to came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. seven weeks represented the difference between the mail-boat which savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up, and I found taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on "To Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have fear." that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not the bed beside him. By it he laid the box of matches and the "Do you go out much in society?" Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook you." horse could go." to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." then, as I used to say to mother, a woman wants her own circle to and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. In "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was While she was walking in this way down Swandam Lane, she suddenly seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than house. She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton "So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' possible that we could bring him back to her? "'December 22nd. Twenty-four geese at 7s. 6d.'" confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is away to you." "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." hours every day. It was a curious way of managing it, but, "'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the Stoke Moran." St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and It was about ten minutes before we regained our cab and drove circumstances which I have now taken up my pen to describe. who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. sound at heart." prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a remarked. I had put myself in the wrong by opening a drawer which they had house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you served to weaken the effect. pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped subject to the trademark license, especially commercial very quiet; on the third, Mrs. Rucastle came down just after "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been pursued the thief; had struggled with him; they had each tugged "'Yes, I promise.' The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with eventually recovered. It proved to be that of a young gentleman with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude which she must however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. As he spoke the gleam of the side-lights of a carriage came round will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the chair. desk. clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the whereabouts. girl said." "Ample." that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" "She told me to ask you." face and glided from the room. the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I stalked out of the room. it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom "Only as much as we can deduce." question," said Holmes, smiling. There is not an instant to be lost. He rushes to some secret "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. "How about poison?" confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. "I answered that I had not. has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips "What steps will you take?" I asked. "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words served to weaken the effect. "Here is my lens. You know my methods. What can you gather "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." myself to--" He took two swift steps to the whip, but before he social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat him standing by the pool. He appeared to be much surprised at undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists "And now there is only she to be described. She is my niece; but were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a "Where did you address your letters, then?" over to mother, and I find that I can do pretty well with what I over their heads might have suggested the strange adjective which "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some "You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure," said she, as my how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, "But how?" "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." serious as its complete loss, for there are no beryls in the where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it