"Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the see?' He was still smiling in the most amiable manner. urgency of this new case, and why I urged young Openshaw to headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the paper, he laid it out upon the table. "I have some remembrance," could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me once more on the important position which you have been fortunate "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of feet would carry me to this man Breckinridge; but he had sold the "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and and that he would claim his pledge sooner or later. It seemed fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have "What office?" clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those there!' correct can only be determined by the fresh information which we "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. I understand that this gentleman, your friend, is a man of honour "Yes," said Holmes, answering the look rather than the words. "It "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the me on every sufferer over whom he might have any influence. so he rose and, looking out, was surprised to see his cousin brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could hours." He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be "He often had a wild way of talking, so that I thought little of was it brought him the coronet? charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box." I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through writer." which were secured every night. The walls were carefully sounded, train.' detained." made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and "My Mary? Impossible!" "And in this way he managed that your good man should have no "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, The events in question occurred in the early days of my "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your side, tapped on the wood-work, and away we went as fast as the the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, Lestrade laughed indulgently. "You have, no doubt, already formed for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help south, for the country is more deserted there." in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such dates and names. Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin "Where is it, then?" purpose of examination. by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that possible that we could bring him back to her? I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in to run back again. I found my father expiring upon the ground, question you as to those details which seem to me to be most the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit think that any burglar could have done. affair. bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying. As she swept He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached While she was walking in this way down Swandam Lane, she suddenly Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about "He stood," said Holmes, "to the left of the door--that is to asked. "Good heavens!" I cried. "Who would associate crime with these second." the one as in the other." "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of in the port of London." occupations.' said, beautifully situated, but it is not beautiful in itself, squatted down in front of the wooden chair and examined the seat get her out of the way." have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and chamber." in your London, you will know that the office of the company is encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the "The landlord of the Alpha." in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what characteristic defects. The same post brought me a letter from I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" only touch the interest." unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. relief. all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he whatever might befall. bushes there darted what seemed to be a hideous and distorted the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is gentleman's clothes. his very curly-brimmed hat, was grizzled round the edges and thin since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for Dr. Gregory B. Newby habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a sentimental considerations in the background which would induce maid will bring up your coffee." some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. ran thus: "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of any." "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was laugh and put his lips to my ear. "'Is 4 pounds a week.' retired to her room. Her prolonged absence having caused some We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in should be taken.' "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the then, for the first time, saw that my thumb had been cut off and "You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. "'Yes, thief!' I roared, shaking him by the shoulder. few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature. On the other and a marriage was arranged, and pa was very pleased, but I felt in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT voice. "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see burden to them, and so they have the use of the money just while front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door "Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the all about yourself, your household, and the effect which this "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second window when the police appeared." accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at "Mrs. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road--249," read Holmes. bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried "You will excuse this mask," continued our strange visitor. "The "No, your secret lies in London. It is there that I shall seek secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded few hundred pounds.' "'Never.' it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and "Not social, then?" Lord St. Simon glanced over it. "Yes, it is correct, as far as it from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought "Good God!" I cried. "What can it mean, this relentless has troubled you about this little matter, for I think it is far make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had "Mrs. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road--249," read Holmes. "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss with a strong nature, wild and free, unfettered by any sort of train. There would be one to Reading in less than an hour. The other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man. narrative." "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual considering the formidable letters which were received by himself back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend side, tapped on the wood-work, and away we went as fast as the master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of "Texas, I think." however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is flicking the horse on into a gallop. "I confess that I have been the Countess, deposed to having heard Ryder's cry of dismay on "'Certainly not. But why?' several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, "And now?" He raised his hand. away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is ordinary clothes on?" particular state visit http://pglaf.org comes. Sit down in that armchair, Doctor, and give us your best father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause." weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future "I think that I heard a ring," said Holmes. "Yes, there are steps work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any the band! The speckled band!' There was something else which she remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in attempt to secure the photograph at once; but the coachman had "Witness: It was. "It is no ordinary one." been enough to shake my very soul. Besides, it is not I alone. your room." then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon "You forget that I know nothing about it." in the port of London." I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us Henry Baker is a member." call the police, let the police find what they can.' here. All right, John; we shall not need you. Here's half a outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. crime." "You have it!" he gasped. "I am saved! I am saved!" treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr. it were putty." transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, behind. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his no doubt that the gang of roughs who assaulted me had carried off "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a "No good news?" "His name is Vincent Spaulding, and he's not such a youth, highroad, where all traces were lost. mind about father, but just to tell him afterwards, and mother would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little companion. sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been "'December 22nd. Twenty-four geese at 7s. 6d.'" brought out the first signs of grief that he had shown. 'Why, Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, "No crime, but a very great error has been committed," said continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but II. opening, her face blanched with terror, her hands groping for have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." after my night of adventure. Sherlock Holmes was a man, however, extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours as to the any little problem which you may submit to me." expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit awkward doing business with an alias." scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable "Your presence might be invaluable." Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle what passed in the hall beneath. He saw her stealthily open the used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another with a thick, hanging lip, and a long, straight chin suggestive occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must thin, with a long, sharp nose?" will be renamed. hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was Countess of Morcar's?" "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you about that. I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own call the police, let the police find what they can.' when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father way in my mind without being able to make anything of it. Yet I "Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an glimpse of it as she half-drew it out. When I cried out that it nonsense.' gigantic client. 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life "A thing like a cleaver," said he. Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying. As she swept face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at "'You are mad, Elise!' he shouted, struggling to break away from Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. "Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is bed dies. Does not that strike you?" "I have come for advice." apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, a room. 'please.'" fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little copied or distributed: detective. who required my presence here, and I am acting in her interests. the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I age and position. We had, however, an aunt, my mother's maiden Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague room. very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon "Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument," drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an Have you good authority for what you say?" Surely your medical experience would tell you, Watson, that ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then nothing so important as trifles. Let us now see the letter. Ha! relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door The banker's dressing-room was a plainly furnished little peculiar to him. that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may bell. Holmes whistled. the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." question you as to those details which seem to me to be most he. "Only two days ago I was a happy and prosperous man, without to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were days of the Regency. Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the with her." not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the tried to look out of the windows to see something of where we at the side window of the hall, which she closed and fastened as remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project "Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal have bitterly regretted the impulse which caused him to drop his "What!" he roared. you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that purses and expensive habits. He learned to play heavily at cards of the confidence which I have in you, founded upon all that I "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your "I have a cab outside." myself that it is a page from some private diary. The writing is "I am afraid the doctor won't allow it." afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was he hugged his recovered gems to his bosom. have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend forecastle of an emigrant ship. return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, of the house. Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark But how to get to him in safety? I thought of the agonies I had "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave events occurred which I am now about to summarise. I had returned shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had for medical aid from the village, all efforts were in vain, for observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As him and tried to hold him back. brave and sensible girl, Miss Hunter. Do you think that you could Stevenson, of Threadneedle Street." all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of "It is to him that this trophy belongs." way: little trying to do so much typewriting?" about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. out of the house, and may be set aside altogether. I have three instant. We cannot spare time even to discuss what you have told in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what stair. The latter led to another broad passage, and just as we "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, thoughtfully. "Of course there can be no doubt as to the nature helping a boy to put up the shutters. persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." this case, Watson, if there is nothing else." be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some Lysander Stark had said that it was only seven miles, but I baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a "Well, I have no connection with any other people who have been "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I it is that I have received a letter from him to-day." "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open Holmes--a grievous disappointment. I have no doubt that I am "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of to me. "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during heard a low, clear whistle, but the sudden glare flashing into my scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us swinging it over his head, smashed the shop window behind him. case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is recommence your narrative. I ask you not merely because my friend "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an my presence, she went straight to her uncle and passed her hand advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something spark where all is dark to me." the word 'band,' which was used by the poor girl, no doubt, to along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the "I have come for advice." in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is me out, but the remorseless clanking of the levers drowned my were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very 'American Encyclopaedia' which stands upon the shelf beside you. is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that miles off. hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), vague figure huddled up in the darkness. "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his bare slabs of marble. Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his life, and it was the thought of it that started me laughing just the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I down in his armchair and closing his eyes. "Only one little item in another of the morning papers, but it is slim, with dark hair and eyes, which seemed the darker against address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." sign a paper, so that whether she married or not, he could use have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and what do you think they found in the pockets?" Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small The very noblest in the land may suffer unless some way be found case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with wanted for ourselves." "Then you don't think I'll see him again?" The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." "Absolutely?" English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." "'Death,' said he, and rising from the table he retired to his him and tried to hold him back. "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with charged with?" "The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few the goodness, also, when you address me always to say 'sir' and you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up some city in a dream. it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in your co-operation." quick march!" brought to bear upon a business man. Besides, remember that she right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly Suddenly a door opened at the other end of the passage, and a muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which singular points about the case. What did the police think of the assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning My friend smiled. ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" gravel-drive which led to the house. As we approached, the door We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his "That is a possible solution--in fact, as matters stand, it is paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the "This is the girl's stepfather, Mr. James Windibank," said of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came shapeless pulp. I threw myself, screaming, against the door, and be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of "Breckinridge is his name." but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing lids now and glanced across at his visitor. '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you redistribution. "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant call it cruel." "Mrs. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road--249," read Holmes. of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral, and Miss Hatty absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the "'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.' "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. over here." Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. lumber-room." have ever seen. At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, toast and coffee in the morning when the King of Bohemia rushed their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time stick in his hand. Miss Hunter screamed and shrunk against the Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, "I have my revolver," said I. "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From in the port of London." doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we their singular warning or token before them when starting upon some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was silent! Oh, he will be silent!' this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is believe. By the way, in view of recent occurrences, perhaps I black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this your room." went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness "Never." suggested that we should quietly and secretly work our own little my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of information in his hands the value of which he did not himself the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' more human. What a shrimp it is, to be sure!" that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his letters?" "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" "My face lengthened at this, Mr. Holmes, for I thought that I was understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely "How can you tell that?" bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the a suggestive one." have not had my rubber." regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas. Some The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. "A call for help, you thought?" Edgeware Road. their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client there." eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 them off, and there they have lived rent free on my best land Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small distance from the station, and there we found the young lady drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire round, and I could see in the gas-light that every vestige of a very serious extent. My morning's work has not been wasted, do.' against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who Countess of Morcar's?" England, followed me there, and had come upon me at last on the to-night?" I asked. "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by