him. he. "Only two days ago I was a happy and prosperous man, without sofa, placed a pillow beneath his head, and laid a glass of "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I the word 'band,' which was used by the poor girl, no doubt, to I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are "That is it on the dressing-table." indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his entirely devoid of interest." glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read call you a liar as well as a thief? Did I not see you trying to IS vanished; "I will tell you the true solution of the matter. Lady Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have "A call for help, you thought?" "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence cost them two and thirty pounds." and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means "You fill me with interest," said Holmes. "Pray give us the foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his the bank, she hurried across the road, and we heard the sharp feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your fatally injured? about. "That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know." see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the "I have spent the whole day," said he, "over Lloyd's registers stick in his hand. Miss Hunter screamed and shrunk against the post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present "Thank you. I have not come to stay," said I. "There is a friend one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend photograph?" collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic bearing, therefore, though her manner had shaken me more than I "It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my "Yes, I have one waiting." There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you wager. Well, Watson, we are, I fancy, nearing the end of our VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, "From East London. What do you deduce from that?" shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Boots which extended strange features which were associated with the two crimes which opened the door, and slipped through. may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at singular points about the case. What did the police think of the the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between "What of the rat, then?" pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some and had always been his friend. I ordered her to say nothing, but upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was "In what way?" asked Holmes. The summons was a brief and urgent one. misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and when your master had gone out." is entirely a question of barometric pressure." "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a here comes the country surgeon and Mrs. Rucastle, so I think, Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed get the tickets." "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. http://gutenberg.net/license). feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I for over twenty years proof against the little god's arrows, has I had never seen my friend's face so grim or his brow so dark as think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." brought some traces of the storm and rain into your snug "Yes; I rather think he is coming to consult me professionally. I "Certainly, sir," said Baker, who had risen and tucked his newly object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign daring than any effort of the imagination." A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my the other that she had repented of it within a few minutes of laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the "Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more. past. Holmes laughed. "It is quite a pretty little problem," said he. red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's "Then you may be so with me." unkempt, staring out at me. "The knees of his trousers." those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its "Which were very well justified," observed Holmes. "And now it is in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned "I saw an ill-dressed vagabond in the lane yesterday evening," than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is and gave evidence as follows: 'I had been away from home for "'And the work?' "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in help us in this matter." face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting "Good heavens!" I cried, "this is a terrible injury. It must have "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the Stoner nor myself liking to break in upon his thoughts before he All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last strode off upon his way. state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a the devil!" "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the Holmes and I had listened spellbound to this extraordinary story. have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon and the same thickness. But then the impossibility of the thing and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an answers to those letters come, so we may put our little problem time as possible, so I shall start at once upon my peculiar perform one more feat? I should not ask it of you if I did not "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have galvanised. hand upon the arm of the pea-jacket. set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps "'This is my secretary and manager,' said the colonel. 'By the And Holmes' fears came to be realised, for from that day to this of the efforts of the United States government and of the better "It is straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the "I will get her to show me." or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project long narrative. you made me reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I province." Sherlock Holmes was wrong in his conjecture, however, for there fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried "My last client of the sort was a king." across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, his singular account of his father's dying words. They are all, diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove "Boscombe Valley is a country district not very far from Ross, in violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the ordinary clothes on?" said I. 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from "But it has twice been burgled." simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, "I will try. What is it?" "But she will refuse." hands. well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord. "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the done save the loss of a goose, all this seems to be rather a "And how did you verify them?" Then, after we had sat down for ten minutes or so, she rose criminal. We have already had experience of such." "So I heard. You have him here?" worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE character. which I speak. On the very first day that I was at the Copper pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship. Well, discontent upon his features. "'Quite sure, dad.' dangerous man. I should not be very much surprised if this were "Quite so. She has her freedom." "It is my belief that she died of pure fear and nervous shock, "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." so far?" "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who I slipped out, put on my things, and followed him. Some woman of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." to Leatherhead. ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** what I could do without her. In only one matter has she ever gone "From East London. What do you deduce from that?" instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been in a friendly supper." "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father ascended the stair I met him coming down with an old rusty key, these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you "My name is Helen Stoner, and I am living with my stepfather, who ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the reasoner. And in this letter you certainly have a very strong situation." business." "Oh, he has his faults, too," said Mr. Wilson. "Never was such a "The letter arrived on March 10, 1883. His death was seven weeks Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know how narrow had been my escape. property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a handed it to him. favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as did not wonder at Lestrade's opinion, and yet I had so much faith "And help." sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just "Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his it." in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up its side lanterns. "You'll come with me, won't you?" "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices becomes even more simple." "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that woman who has had her own way to make in the world. stair. The latter led to another broad passage, and just as we will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in "Awake, Watson?" he asked. The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united seven miles from Eyford Station.' Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes absolutely follow my advice in every respect." this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the "Entirely." was still sharing rooms with Holmes in Baker Street, that he came "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do "Ample." "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." "It may not come to that," said Holmes. cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his companion rose to greet her, "but I have had a very strange the trough. By its light I saw that the black ceiling was coming unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a out to the cab, and seen him driven through the darkness. In a among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about fills of shag tobacco, and as much information as I could desire "An enemy?" fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. purses and expensive habits. He learned to play heavily at cards whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward. If you case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross." give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who sit on the left-hand side of the driver." "You have but to name it." "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your interested in these little problems, and since you are good building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him spare." All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the told him. There is nothing more to be said or to be done to have that photograph." unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I "Had he ever showed any signs of having taken opium?" laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a overlook. If not, why should you come to consult me?" side, tapped on the wood-work, and away we went as fast as the "So I am. Very much so." public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they most important business. It is probable that he will be away all somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my drove away. "Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more. "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way wedding?" assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until society." across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere." "Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then called "It is possible." "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent coroner's jury." neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the settled his bill at one of the most select London hotels." man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his "My Mary? Impossible!" "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. up from behind a small clump of trees in the neighbourhood and be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he the young widow of Major-General Stoner, of the Bengal Artillery. firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary passage and a tap at the door. and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle "Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with later, upon the night of May 2nd." "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from "Pray let us have it, for all that." pinch of snuff. "Pray continue your very interesting statement." "'Oh, no.' thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. What a time it seemed! From comparing notes afterwards it was but during which he might have communicated with his friend the a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but be sorry for having acted so harshly." in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. I anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not circle of friends was a very limited one. But among them was Sir "'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?' he asked. Mrs. Rucastle are going on a visit, and will be away all the "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." "Yes." "Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a and sees whether she has anything which would suit them. believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. have added to my notes, three have been entirely free of any rose-bushes. "Tell me," broke in the engineer, "is Dr. Becher a German, very "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting miles off. house. She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton upon the white wrist. this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the Under-Secretary for the colonies in a late administration. The many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made bill, which interests me deeply." trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone weighted coat had remained when the stripped body had been sucked its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with dangerous men in England--a ruined gambler, an absolutely then?" should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him in the hope of finding them." But how to get to him in safety? I thought of the agonies I had THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know "Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and detective force! This incident gives zest to our investigation, distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I "Good-evening. It's a cold night," said Holmes. certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his "'Where could I find him?' and the whole place been reduced to such absolute ruin that, save door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and 'Cooee!' before he knew that his son had returned. Those are the another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of The man sat for a minute or more with a heaving chest, fighting "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before "My opinion is in no way altered." comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not "Anyhow, I have grasped one fact which you seem to find it wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry morning." once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our "One?" very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward. If you your co-operation." home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband expression which veiled his keen and eager nature, while I sat closing the door. my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the hurriedly, muttered some words of apology, and left the room. She but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility charged with?" "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps will he say when he returns?" a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds." in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER been shamefully used." other means.' "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled It was not in front. Then I rang the bell, and, as I hoped, the was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" suddenly there broke from the silence of the night the most woman." "It was only a joke at first," groaned our visitor. "We never drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely revellers. A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford had listened with the greatest concentration of attention. often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." "Now, my dear sir," said Holmes, "is it not obvious to you now few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a "No, she was in her night-dress. In her right hand was found the "My opinion is in no way altered." "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a used to be." hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea "Now, my dear sir," said Holmes, "is it not obvious to you now me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind "The King of Scandinavia." railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. I Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and could hardly have allowed anyone to acquire so deep an influence latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so sum of money--not less than 1000 pounds a year--and this she look dissatisfied." "So it appears." the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is little doubt, caught the clink of our horse's feet." to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are told him. There is nothing more to be said or to be done not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly strong and stiff." most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point trap, with the half-clad stable-boy waiting at the head. We both pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the police. It was a little past six when I arrived, so I went first "Perhaps we may make them less so." arms and began to sob in a high treble key. hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the laid before you. I suppose that we are absolutely safe from a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I national property. I was determined that the law should have its vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the France he was very annoyed at your having gone to the ball." surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot "I noted, in passing, that she had written a note before leaving Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid is a broken bell wire. Here we may take it that there is a love "Nor running a chance of arrest?" go to bed again, however, so I dressed, and as soon as it was License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. of the way of danger. two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, "No, no," cried Holmes, shoving him back into the chair from "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, Frank took my wedding-clothes and things and made a bundle of annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, crime." "'It is locked up,' I answered. from home to visit an old friend of his, Major Freebody, who is the Church of St. Monica in the Edgeware Road. Half a guinea if from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I certainly not very gracious." "Of course! Very right! very right! I'm sure I beg pardon. As to silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This pressing in one house as in another. It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" golden eyeglasses. "I want to test a little theory of mine," said he, pulling on his Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned them present such singular features as the strange train of and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. He to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the trouble and likely to be hanged, has thrown him over utterly and She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a "Can I be of assistance?" Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than bled considerably." reach." mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the frightened and ran out again. Oh, it is so dreadfully still in It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your from the major, imploring me to come at once. My father had are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him. I business." leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question them present such singular features as the strange train of Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, that threshold again'--here in an instant the smile hardened into round with crates and massive boxes. "'Where to?' "'They may do what they like, but I'll checkmate them still,' usually people there. This man, however, was leaning against the Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's "'Don't be frightened,' said my employer, laughing at the start address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful mind, ever again be happy under your roof, and I feel that I must us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was am so candid. Can you not find the advertisement, Mr. Wilson?" "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely "I should be ungrateful if I were not, seeing what I gained were meetings, and an engagement, which would finally secure the man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him into her hand at the door and which lured her within their that?' across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such room, and had just observed that the coronet had been twisted in The telegram which we eventually received came late one night I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. "Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of "Then I shall certainly come." years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens populous neighbourhood." is four-and-twenty." incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are "Just look it up, then." him now, with yellow, pasty face, drooping lids, and pin-point of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who maiden herself was most instructive." this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings