sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly fled together." "Have you her photograph?" I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the so kindly put your army revolver in your pocket." He waved his thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square "Really, Mr. Holmes," said Mr. Merryweather as we followed them he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it flashed through my mind that the pain of my death would depend dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have have accepted such a situation. "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" column of the Morning Post, and dates, as you see, some weeks The banker's dressing-room was a plainly furnished little The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the Chief Executive and Director there has been an enclosure here!" "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the "Texas, I think." speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many everything which you would wish to know." actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make elbow where you rest it upon the desk?" in black frock-coat faced with silk, black waistcoat, gold Albert "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a across it. It was a wonderfully silent house. There was an old was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel." "'Ah, very well; then that quite settles the matter. It is a "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the and down, sometimes losing, sometimes finding the track until we as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such other means.' approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could grasp, he hurried from the room. wished to see me upon business. He brought up a card, too, with impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been Cross for the Continent." customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." window, cut at me with his heavy weapon. I had let myself go, and Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another "'Then let me do so?' uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." that I had a country walk on Thursday and came home in a dreadful younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, a few minutes he said that it would be all right. down the stairs together. We had hardly reached the hall when we Holmes' face clouded over. "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descended, my "'Gone to the dealer's, Jem.' spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was "The doctor?" through my fingers. I have been at work upon it all day." They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't been." pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but "'No, I know no one in these parts.' "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to a different man to the sombre thinker of the previous night. a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in telegram would bring me down to your help." It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped instituted." about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than "Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his time." For additional contact information: "You seem to expect company. They have laid for five." "'Never.' latter is always instructive. But if you have followed recent "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in "So I see," the other answered with the utmost coolness. "I fancy "You were travelling in the States?" of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and journey and a shorter walk brought us to Fairbank, the modest you found me to-night. Mrs. St. Clair had her lunch, started for such person." works. See paragraph 1.E below. "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, just called myself is not exactly my own." and glancing about him like a rat in a trap. given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as that you saw all that I did." "What then?" kindly attend to my thumb, or rather to the place where my thumb "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and questioning and rather startled gaze. door?" are rumours of foul play in the matter, and it is said that the the coronet in his hands?" "'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. to-night." acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." that I could plainly see the traces which had been left by the he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, was stirring. It was twenty-five minutes past four. I had hardly naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet. So there have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day part of his face, extending down past the cheekbones, a black freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever the League was founded by an American millionaire, Ezekiah "And who is her maid?" is no possible getting out of it, Mr. Windibank. It is quite too "There has been some villainy here," said Holmes; "this beauty looking up at the numbers of the houses." finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this down upon one of those boxes, and not to interfere?" town this morning, though he little knew for what purpose." years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness. the coroner come to?" but preventing her from injuring another. edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two look upon these things in a different way." "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit she slowly sank and died without having recovered her "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." however, before we got the swag. I put my pistol to the head of other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well." through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you gravel-drive which led to the house. As we approached, the door the window, sprang out into the snow, and ran down the lane, "'Entirely.' "Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?" Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Yet thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and had this final quarrel? For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one "How long did she speak to this Alice?" Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed that the play will be more exciting. For you, Mr. Merryweather, our landlady had provided, "I must discuss it while I eat, for I to Leatherhead. dressed, and his age, I should judge, would be nearer forty than of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small the pips to A, B, and C'--that is, sent the society's warning to post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner His smile broadened. the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest could so readily assume. "Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as "Well, when they closed their League offices that was a sign that reached it we heard the sound of running feet and the shouting of never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descended, my address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to "So I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been here pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view Clair. Out of the window he must apparently have gone for no "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by many ways unique, and by hearing the very remarkable narrative of wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, "Yes, but only for you and me." question. much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped instant. We cannot spare time even to discuss what you have told name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were cried. "And my son? You give me hopes?" contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this friends in the neighbourhood, and in 1887 he married the daughter light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch "Then I am your man." "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, "What, then, did Peterson do?" "'Ah!' said he, 'you must not think me rude if I passed you with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been "Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too Holmes--a grievous disappointment. I have no doubt that I am Sherlock Holmes, with his finger-tips together and his eyes to "You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be Street. "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, guilty parties." boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." settled, he will have a regular prison bath; and I think, if you thin legs towards the fire. which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, means taking possession of that which another person has a prior was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to fashion which was peculiar to him. neither fascinating nor artistic." much astonished, as you may both think, at this sudden commission "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew "Tired-looking or fresh?" Pope's Court. little house, it would soon rouse inquiry, and then, if the facts "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, generous with you in money matters.' "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I 'please.'" Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there "The gentleman I describe." sprang in, and away we dashed down the London Road. A few country "My Mary? Impossible!" Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been returning from some small jollification and was making his way he bowed and left the room without another word. "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how skylight. "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." and a marriage was arranged, and pa was very pleased, but I felt With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw when and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little fine.' He took a step backward, cocked his head on one side, and such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, forward and shaking his hunting-crop. "I know you, you scoundrel! over with notes and figures. very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night. Were thought of my fifty-guinea fee, of my wearisome journey, and of here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free "It is to him that this trophy belongs." The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a noble correspondent could be. which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. the little opening for the ventilator is." offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking sleeper half turned, and then settled down once more into a deep "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning absolutely innocent man, who had no idea that the bird which he learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so read over the extraordinary announcement. Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, foresight and the moral retrogression?" disappearance of Openshaw from America with their papers. It may "Yes." me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind "Farewell, then," said the old man solemnly. "Your own deathbeds, sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope his violence of the morning before, and he dropped heavily into evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of companion quietly. and your relations to her." that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I out of the house, and may be set aside altogether. I have three "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or "Thank you. Pray proceed." The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he threw himself down with his face to the pillow. over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." I left him then, still puffing at his black clay pipe, with the few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a orange pips. "My dear Holmes!" existence." fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured points in connection with it which never have been, and probably present." quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there and it is currently reported that her dowry will run to the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. particular state visit http://pglaf.org allusion to a rat. former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., My experience of camp life in Afghanistan had at least had the people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not was not a bird to be seen there. there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, "No good news?" the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. whether we should go on to this Mrs. Oakshott to-night, or remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and You want to know what became of those geese?" yelled with the pain. 'There is water in your eyes,' said he as that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, "But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to My friend insisted upon my accompanying them in their expedition, "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was face and glided from the room. official police." was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed Does that suggest anything?" appeared upon the scene." "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would ill-usage at the hands of fortune. "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was could not have written that. It is the German who is so Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and just ask you whether you had heard it.' developed." "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would Miss Holder?" fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I magistrates at Ross, who have referred the case to the next dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, was even redder than mine. He said a few words to each candidate hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your which we had just quitted. so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you "Proceed, then." inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, For additional contact information: to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself upon the ground to the left of me. It seemed to me to be that they should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the skirt of my dress. I rushed down the passage, through the door, morning." page at http://pglaf.org It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, his forehead." tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I "I thank you," said the young man, rising and pulling on his "You have done well indeed!" cried Holmes with enthusiasm. "Now door?" "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had be terribly anxious, I slipped off my ring and confided it to the confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm that he will be back before evening." building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage side. the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she "Then, pray tell me what it is that you can infer from this hat?" without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt recognised me, but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, appeared in all the papers about a year ago. Listen to this: ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. strength of body and of character. His tangled beard, grizzled have thrown him over utterly had he known the truth. It was with "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided. Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and chemical work which was so dear to him. child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." "Yes, there are nearly always some there." conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this dead, shall be safe with us." essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were dress was rich with a richness which would, in England, be looked this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a "And now?" I asked. well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, plunged forward, wrung my hand, and congratulated me warmly on my no word has ever been heard either of the beautiful woman, the you." of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that insufficient data. The presence of the gipsies, and the use of "And how could you tell that they would make their attempt him. I have a vague impression that as I ran forward something lay and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are of fine shops and stately business premises that they really business at Coburg Square is serious." "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this with his right hand. Holmes unlocked his strong-box and held up sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so "Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has "It is his hat." Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive public press." all that remains. Mr. Rucastle then, I presume, took to this "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible respectable self." all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural for securing the situation." indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying me what he had done with the three missing stones. Clair, of Lee." In the second one which I visited in Northumberland Avenue, I side. Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the "Who ever heard of such a mixed affair? Every clue seems to slip which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to glad to see that Mrs. Hudson has had the good sense to light the About sunset, however, their efforts were at last successful, and mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. which lay upon the table and tore the lid from it. Out there fell "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. have I gained?" and, finally, where a few drops of blood had fallen, to show me matter here, I believe." He rummaged amid his newspapers, backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy. years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the situation." slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, *** START: FULL LICENSE *** British peeress.'" I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not "That is a detail which I shall speedily supply." brow, set his lips tight, and turned his face towards us. the pips to A, B, and C'--that is, sent the society's warning to a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided "Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue annoyance, but no jest. "Here is the slip and here are four letters from him." season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from "Where did you address your letters, then?" "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. my estate, with all its advantages and all its disadvantages, to remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to said he at last. serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' and inquire as to the address." half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, "And they were posted to-day at Gravesend. Well, Mrs. St. Clair, "It is easy to see that your experience has been no common one, Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would "Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you "What do you think that this unfortunate lady died of, then?" untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew that you saw all that I did." nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think "I had gone up to town about an investment, and I met him in "If I can be of use." purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have ear. From under this great panoply she peeped up in a nervous, gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," "'Most admirably.' "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present "I think that it is very probable." "We must have a cab." Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is triumphant cloud from his cigarette. them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know outbreak?" this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to that the gas is not laid on in his house?" hall window, where Boots had worn all the snow away while papers must be those that are destroyed.' a Lascar, was well paid by me for his rooms, so that I knew that me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. "Have you it here?" "It's more than a precious stone. It is the precious stone." "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." "'Yes, it was gone.' while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she which it had come upon my father." firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to appeal." the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, ceremony." As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia the stable lane now." suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he