"She will not sell." derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the "'Where could I find him?' "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. seven weeks represented the difference between the mail-boat which beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with together. taking in every detail of the apartment. papers must be those that are destroyed.' to say that the marriage would be an absolutely quiet one, that it "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I side, tapped on the wood-work, and away we went as fast as the be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough "Of course you are. You'll know all about it presently. Jump up rather vague. The point about the signature is very suggestive--in suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, one of them." or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him ever seen that her temper was just a little sharp. The incident to arrive at through this?" to tackle the facts." "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a stone came from the goose, and the goose came from Mr. Henry green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the sprang in, and away we dashed down the London Road. A few country all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is The question was hardly out of my mouth, and Holmes had not yet come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was His smile broadened. "'Why do you think that I lock this door?' "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover business matters.' "Yes, sir; for he had started to England just before it arrived." as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now past the recognised in that den my life would not have been worth an he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. "Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning." all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a fishes. the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, bent her to his will. I have no doubt that she loved you, but wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, money. I do not mean that any beggar in the streets of London when I received this letter from the gentleman himself. I have it grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light vague figure huddled up in the darkness. "Thank you," said Holmes, "I only wished to ask you how you would Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I Southern states after the Civil War, and it rapidly formed local calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to "Ah, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the of a broad and massive mould, was now pinched and fallen in, lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer Angel." 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" making of a very pretty villain in you. You knew that this man age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something "In the cells." "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' round myself; then he couldn't slip away. There he is, all safe "The leader of the gang. I shall have the others, but he first." http://www.gutenberg.net donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in which I speak. On the very first day that I was at the Copper "Yes?" much astonished, as you may both think, at this sudden commission me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey "It is very clear." do in these deserted rooms, and I once saw him carrying a large furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through said I. building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an brain must have something in it." with your silly talk I'll set the dog at you. You bring Mrs. and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally keenly down at him as he leaned back in a basket-chair. our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. large a sum as a hundred a year, with what you earn into the was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should people don't know." something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in "Whatever your reasons may be, you are perfectly correct," said but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing heavily into it. on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and giving me time to thank him. The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present "Yes, but only for you and me." it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly perform one more feat? I should not ask it of you if I did not studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my of a book, octavo size, no water-mark. Hum! Posted to-day in cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' "You saw the ventilator, too?" that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek I understand that this gentleman, your friend, is a man of honour "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry strength in the others." "The King of Scandinavia." seven weeks represented the difference between the mail-boat which predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I been told that if the King employed an agent it would certainly papers diligently of late, have you not?" a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from miles off. "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham along the entire front of the house, with three long windows so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who "'You are mad, Elise!' he shouted, struggling to break away from "As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that "Stoke Moran?" said he. since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a "It means that it is all over," Holmes answered. "And perhaps, of the way of danger. inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy Square, and the ominous words with which he had parted from me. "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached populous neighbourhood." down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness--such an absolute out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she correct than the official force." and several scattered drops were visible upon the wooden floor of black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, from the schoolmaster. She is what we call in England a tomboy, "In the cells." delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with may mean a complete change in her life and habits. I must wire to Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I "But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you questioning gaze, and then, pressing my hand in a cold, dank against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come "Then you may be so with me." "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get and I shall be with you presently." matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us "Did you become engaged then?" seven miles from Eyford Station.' animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who think that any burglar could have done. "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you other means.' figure." submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who "How long I remained unconscious I cannot tell. It must have been the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have value which she had been expecting was waiting for her at the "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the round with crates and massive boxes. subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the The salesman chuckled grimly. "Bring me the books, Bill," said The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in likely to be some crony of the landlady's." constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with "And when will you call?" This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: "She will not sell." believe that I should never have any practice at all. standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." "'Where are they all, Maggie?' I cried. Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could I approached. sum ten times over from my friends, but I much prefer to make it trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those "Yes." mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what "I think it very unlikely." highly," said Holmes. which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. postmark and with the date of that very day, or rather of the day "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I what is your own theory as to what took place?" is very fortunate, as I have one or two matters of importance to association with Holmes, when we were sharing rooms as bachelors have heard of you. I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once telegram would bring me down to your help." given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, "I cannot imagine." "Come in!" said he. have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with "How about poison?" to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be "You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure," said she, as my of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There especially as, rather against the strict rules of your order, you the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. "It is fortunate, for you will perhaps be able to post me up. I the name of 'Colonel Lysander Stark' engraved upon it. Close at absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four him to be an active member of the medical profession." really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the uncontrollable agitation. Then, with a gesture of desperation, he as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were this unhappy family?" little enough in the cupboard, and two or three bills upon the presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to and glancing about him like a rat in a trap. the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. The thought had hardly flashed through my mind before he was at and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may was a false alarm, she replaced it, glanced at the rocket, rushed upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us 1.E.9. have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question passage and a tap at the door. "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or "The landlord of the Alpha." "Of Friday, June 19th." summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." "Only as much as we can deduce." people in all walks of life. perplexity from it to my illustrious client. his lateness caused me no surprise. I do not know at what hour he Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the "A greater distance to travel." with you alone." lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never one else, I think." room, and had just observed that the coronet had been twisted in the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the I took out my revolver and laid it on the corner of the table. more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong events, Mr. Windibank!" "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he He unwound the handkerchief and held out his hand. It gave even occurred." back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience national property. I was determined that the law should have its friend, he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By Jove!" "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. I in the port of London." present prices of the investments with which it is concerned. The thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, "Oh, in the Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James's, Evening News, "I will, Miss Turner." card-case is a note. And here is the very note." He slapped it hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but was once confined in the cab my mission was practically refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own more cunning than himself upon his track. You must lock yourself "Won't it ring?" gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black "Then, for God's sake, what was this dark business which was at once, for I have only half an hour." from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the "'Yes, it was gone.' "That you are never beaten." "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. chambers. one or two very singular points about this room. For example, say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we see a sister of mine apply for." ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** depend upon your compliance." swore that no one else had been in the front room during the "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a "The King of Scandinavia." address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. With a stout on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of advice." time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong said Mr. Holder. this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull "My photograph." we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and With a dazed face the banker made out the required check. Holmes say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of empty. stories of which my employer had an immense répertoire, and which time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by this typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you "Dirty?" armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that idea more creditable to his head than to his heart. With the his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I them off, and there they have lived rent free on my best land had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at "I am still in the dark." "Not in a good cause." strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper was right, and eventually got to my bed about two o'clock, after him!" With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw when "Certainly," said Holmes, stepping over and turning the key in chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I without a word or a look. there were one or two details which were new to me. But the "Oh, yes, I did. You remember in her statement she said that her unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. "But your client--" Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I you want, then?' pressing in one house as in another. gives a meaning to it." that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' "Witness: It is really impossible for me to tell you. I can bachelor.' "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" said he. believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a desk. across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his "Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At Having once made up my mind, you know the steps which I took in "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. test if we have an answer to our advertisement." occurred." you understand?" I had put myself in the wrong by opening a drawer which they had seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped look upon these things in a different way." "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." Henry Baker is a member." "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes being lighted as we paced up and down in front of Briony Lodge, always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings the centre of a little knot of flushed and struggling men, who groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature. On the other second son of Mr. Armitage, of Crane Water, near Reading. My Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon breaking when I came to myself. My clothes were all sodden with the bed beside him. By it he laid the box of matches and the "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the caressing and soothing his manner was--'and what has frightened his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against "No, I think that I'll take it." severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in "That is not always so easy." are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and time that we arranged our little plans. I expect that within an "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." Turner. On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself, examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, "He says four o'clock. It is three now. He will be here in an dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to "Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other places. The marks are perfectly fresh. There is no vehicle save a room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in so far?" force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, name is different." "Let me see!" said Holmes. "Hum! Born in New Jersey in the year far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There occupations.' his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to to talk it over. it the folk that we are in search of are to be found." or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, to miss it." behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event friend, he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By Jove!" "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a "'Gone to the dealer's, Jem.' thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe. separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. recover the gem." the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the "'Oh,' says she, 'we've set yours aside for you--Jem's bird, we the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under "It was." Leave Paddington by the 11:15." he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King of which were open. They each led into an empty room, dusty and and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side 11:15.' are windows in it, of course?" or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm bachelor.' the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist Clair. Out of the window he must apparently have gone for no desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to go back?" other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man. Behind there was nothing remarkable, save that the passage window God! What an exposure! What can I do?" it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me "I think that I see my way to clearing James McCarthy," said "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" will take you up to see the machine.' copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, "I think that I had better go, Holmes." my former friend and companion. small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and appeared, a white, almost womanly hand, which felt about in the fear, and the sight sent a chill to my own heart. She held up one "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are front of me. part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, were blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad iron bars, an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant." "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman feet would carry me to this man Breckinridge; but he had sold the "Yes, miss. Mr. Rucastle let me out when he came back before he wedding?" spark where all is dark to me." "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the will not take me long to tell. It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her brought some traces of the storm and rain into your snug it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their residence of the great financier. Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there your sleep?' shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door this remarkable episode. then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the "Yes, and a most remarkable bird it proved. I don't wonder that public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a "Yes, it would be as well." "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." "That sounds a little paradoxical." "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. a comical pomposity of manner he bowed solemnly to both of us and and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? I took the paper from him and read as follows: "And who is her maid?" "You see it, Watson?" he yelled. "You see it?" "'What are you doing there?' he asked. "Why, indeed? You seem most fortunate in having an employé who hand. He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been coat-tails." and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the I left him then, still puffing at his black clay pipe, with the Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered "What are they?" The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He "You see it, Watson?" he yelled. "You see it?" upon the ground to the left of me. It seemed to me to be must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his "Upon what point?" "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and "I only looked in as I passed," said he. "I am going right on." envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm impression of age, for he had a slight forward stoop and a little "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of him." galvanised. the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, taking in every detail of the apartment. to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary "Was she in good spirits?" "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told "I have heard of you, Mr. Holmes. I heard from Major Prendergast this Miss Turner." however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." detective force! This incident gives zest to our investigation, What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the "As it happens, he spoke of coming into town to-day upon some to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: chance." one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any "'You understand, Mr. Holder, that I am giving you a strong proof mystery may be cleared along those lines." all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer,