"Do you receive much company?" he asked. such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and "You did not overhear what they said?" successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of her elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very "You were travelling in the States?" written. carriage. It was a chestnut." disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. arrangements." "What I expected to see." "I say that I have solved it." Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe the King without delay." the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated "My dear Holmes!" Mrs. Rucastle are going on a visit, and will be away all the wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted so.' "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close remarkable. I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was "No." "But his wife--you said that she had ceased to love him." conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project truly as if you had cut the cord which was hanging him. I see the her like one who is at her wit's end. Then she threw open a door her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have "I will do it." at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about what interest could anyone have in bringing me to the doors of "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out "Quite so. Then I do not think that I need to detain you longer. had formerly been in part my own. halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice initials, is the very note which was no doubt quietly slipped inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invariable process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I "None." A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was certainly repay what you advance, with whatever interest you caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and said he, "my real name is James Ryder." from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, horrible worrying sound which it was dreadful to listen to. An "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind gone before you can get him to hospital." "'Dear me!' he said gravely, 'that is very serious indeed! I am happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a "Who by?" whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe. "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with coronet, and his opponent at the other. In the scuffle, your son the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in "Nothing." as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn "And what of Irene Adler?" I asked. push her way in, uttering very abusive expressions towards my the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, "Get out!" said he. erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already some water from a caraffe. really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and casket in which, as it afterwards transpired, the Countess was "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the the sort at The Hague last year. Old as is the idea, however, where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the "It was." their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while to-night?" I asked. chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the matter over." we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped instant. We cannot spare time even to discuss what you have told son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an his face which made him a very different person to the round, Behind there was nothing remarkable, save that the passage window on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a "Thank you. And your address?" Perhaps, Mr. Wilson, you would have the great kindness to was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his the dangers which encompass me." problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon was such a good one, and suited me so well, that I would not risk copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last in his power. "Then I do not see the point." collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just quiet and innocent one. There the matter stands at present, and fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER'S THUMB and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right "But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught "Never better. She kept talking of what we should do in our singular points about the case. What did the police think of the brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a I have given you pain, and I hope that you do not think very is four-and-twenty." "Where, then, is my wife?" among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should certainly the last human being whose eyes rested upon Neville St. him just as good a wife as it was in me to be. But you may deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do planted halfway down the column. "Here it is. This is what began strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to was such a good one, and suited me so well, that I would not risk "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, voice was gentle. He'd had the quinsy and swollen glands when he wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and the night.' say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" what do you think they found in the pockets?" several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of importance to the person or persons in the sailing-ship. I think distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than "Alas!" replied our visitor, "the very horror of my situation voice was gentle. He'd had the quinsy and swollen glands when he husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend "Because he was handy and would come cheap." prove to be little relation between the different incidents of yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this vivid flame-coloured tint. When I saw how many were waiting, I really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless Then they will not lose a minute, for the sooner they do their cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and nonsense.' companion quietly. And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never together, in this way: what the meaning of this extraordinary performance could possibly "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small the yard, and behind this I drove one of the birds--a fine big opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is were new raised from a basin. "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, "'Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the page at http://pglaf.org in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy. and manner of my patron had made an unpleasant impression upon "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." "A confidential servant?" Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to "You have done well indeed!" cried Holmes with enthusiasm. "Now take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the "In the bathroom," he answered. "Oh, yes, I am not joking," he "It goes to the housekeeper's room." main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without grasp, he hurried from the room. "The doctor?" controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I "His name is Vincent Spaulding, and he's not such a youth, shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and people in all walks of life. well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover have one." said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into like gravel from a pit.' merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." and all of them with the keenest interest. memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. "Is he quiet?" brave and sensible girl, Miss Hunter. Do you think that you could him just as good a wife as it was in me to be. But you may "I guessed as much." settled, he will have a regular prison bath; and I think, if you How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong fire. The facts are these: about four o'clock on Christmas never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through value which she had been expecting was waiting for her at the to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of into the back yard and smoked a pipe and wondered what it would drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the "He says four o'clock. It is three now. He will be here in an habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. This is what he says: himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. cause to be." acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, felt the room to be a little close.' silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. told him. There is nothing more to be said or to be done answers to those letters come, so we may put our little problem "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the have some good news for you. And good-night, Watson," he added, "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest I shall continue with my miserable story. was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. Sometimes I think that I am myself. And now--and now I am myself "Your presence might be invaluable." closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle the morning and make my own way in the world.' of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who their singular warning or token before them when starting upon yourselves in at night?" that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, friends in the neighbourhood, and in 1887 he married the daughter stepfather?" so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no at home. mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my "Anyhow, I have grasped one fact which you seem to find it do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly "I know where it is." suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the "Quite so. Then I do not think that I need to detain you longer. rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." "'No, I cannot!' I answered sharply. 'I have been far too "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." I nodded again. "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that astonishment. introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed if she died from some sudden fright." should have spoken to you before I went; but I was kind of Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the "Oh, in the Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James's, Evening News, we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" bled considerably." better. Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. also thoroughly examined, with the same result. The chimney is neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock dramatic, in fact." gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied "They must have done so. I have a confused memory, too, of having the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the you?" than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me have given you all the facts. Since you ask me, however, I may of the subject. That trick of staining the fishes' scales of a do you make of it all?" should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the mind about father, but just to tell him afterwards, and mother the expense of six shillings, made all sure by buying a pair of glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. "The letter arrived on March 10, 1883. His death was seven weeks soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building I have a vague impression that as I ran forward something lay "Dirty?" at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a a comical pomposity of manner he bowed solemnly to both of us and of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp all the time that no man on this earth would ever take the place be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. colonel looking down at me. better. Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I to tackle the facts." spark where all is dark to me." whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?" only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can wanted for ourselves." "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her your equipment. "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," "I will, Miss Turner." without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow question you as to those details which seem to me to be most moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all we have exacted from you should have aroused your curiosity. I town this morning, though he little knew for what purpose." the loss of it. see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all "'Most admirably.' dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached It may be so in this case, also." had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which know what is wrong with it.' memory. points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." "To the Leadenhall Street Post Office, to be left till called "It is solved." was such a good one, and suited me so well, that I would not risk "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' this truth that in these little records of our cases which you I held the little printed slip to the light. ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of "No, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the bearing upon the case." police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be "Ah, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I at once, for I have only half an hour." late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very was keenly on my guard against him. furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. Having once made up my mind, you know the steps which I took in "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, row." and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was little woman to-night when she meets me at the door." "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as could get rid of what they stole. I knew that he would be true to and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the affectionate father, and a man who is popular with all who know pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed "It is easy for me to be so, for every event of that dreadful promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are the most preposterous position in which I ever found myself in my John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over Metropolitan Station no one was coming save the single gentleman "I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to wedding?" had no one to advise her at such a crisis." of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. "I cannot as yet see any connection." why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you large a sum as a hundred a year, with what you earn into the "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. him from endeavouring to communicate with her. So much is fairly reason, so sudden and so terrible is it. Public disgrace I might my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that feature." touched on three English counties in our short drive, starting in heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, head. So long, then!" banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with common thing for him to receive letters, for his bills were all "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is generous with you in money matters.' XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a "Not I." of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important am so candid. Can you not find the advertisement, Mr. Wilson?" interest. They are important, you understand, without being Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. "The further points, that he is middle-aged, that his hair is drawing your inferences." "Sarasate plays at the St. James's Hall this afternoon," he obstinate." the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was "Look there!" said he. were new raised from a basin. You can understand that this register and diary may implicate about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the "You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked "You have a maid who has a sweetheart? I think that you remarked still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I simple cases which are so extremely difficult." mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she License. You must require such a user to return or It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The noble correspondent could be. "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the "'And a very good thing, too!' I cried. nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect murdered man." everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may and the whole place been reduced to such absolute ruin that, save "Quite so. There you are. And underneath?" Lestrade of Scotland Yard." "We'll call a cab and go together. We shall just be in time to the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present "'Pon my word, Watson, you are coming along wonderfully. You have matters immensely." elbow where you rest it upon the desk?" "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. which I had more than once observed to be a strong factor in my will be renamed. father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in "She showed me, as I told you she would." he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the might have a private word with us. explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and "Did you become engaged then?" into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger bloody deed. This stone is not yet twenty years old. It was found I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and problems help me to do so." "I would give my fortune to have them back." walking." "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her Mrs. Toller serenely. play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to "I had gone up to town about an investment, and I met him in "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." to tackle the facts." photograph?" "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a you." "I hardly think that likely. I never saw a more inexorable face hour?' could so readily assume. "Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. Southern states after the Civil War, and it rapidly formed local "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some walking." speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this cent. Two thousand five hundred pounds was the amount, but I can "'Undoubtedly so. But you will find that all I say is really to "The 'Lone Star' had arrived here last week. I went down to the dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single train.' Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a "Not yet." in black frock-coat faced with silk, black waistcoat, gold Albert "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential "You can easily imagine, Mr. Holmes, how curious I became as to "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few "It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in the window, rose as we entered. I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had electronic works on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at one else does; but he is too tender-hearted to hurt a fly. Such a "How long I remained unconscious I cannot tell. It must have been lumber-room." that you wished to speak to me?' liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for for a left-handed gentleman with a game leg. I should become the house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by "Oh, indeed! Then you think that the Serpentine plays no part in Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the was already answered. about that. I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, And there is a little reward, I fancy. Have you your check-book? objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a to England my mother died--she was killed eight years ago in a "Well, it was the beginning of '84 when my father came to live at "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower houses here. It is a hobby of mine to have an exact knowledge of values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late have ever seen. At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, be sorry for having acted so harshly." "But we can't all be." his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a wooden shelf full of books, mostly of a technical character, an and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban We made our way downstairs as quietly as possible, and out into thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended "It's more than a precious stone. It is the precious stone." We heard the door open, a few hurried words, and then quick steps "What steps will you take?" I asked. We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an and the carriage came to a stand. Colonel Lysander Stark sprang compositor by his left thumb, care about the finer shades of we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time help us in this matter." and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower running up to the lodge to say that he had found his father dead With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding disappearance of the bride.'" for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you respectable self." inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and that this man Boone had thrust Neville St. Clair through the bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we to go into your room and bar your shutters?" great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the "To do nothing whatever. There will probably be some small "But what will you do?" fine.' He took a step backward, cocked his head on one side, and Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have to me. I hardened my heart, and took the smoke-rocket from under "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, appeal." interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little villagers almost as much as their master. they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back