prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, Stark laid down the lamp on the top of a harmonium beside the "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and to his chemical studies. burst out into a roar of laughter. flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery "Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been "It is a little cold for the time of the year," said Holmes. "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which "Yes, there was a ring. His signet-ring." the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have "Pray do so." standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side late." I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and of a light. finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London. One day very capable performer but a composer of no ordinary merit. All before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am upon the linoleum. Our own door flew open, and a lady, clad in number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at laugh and put his lips to my ear. It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a which I speak. On the very first day that I was at the Copper Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, place no limit on the sum I may draw." whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. appointment with me for six o'clock?" He picked out from his bundle a copy of the local Herefordshire and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was she got brain-fever, and for six weeks was at death's door. Then Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.' That is all." lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my observe. She had small round, hanging gold earrings, and a you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian "Do you receive much company?" he asked. as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing bedroom door." outside the pale of the law. But in avoiding the sensational, I "Your sister asked for it, I suppose?" foppishness, with high collar, black frock-coat, white waistcoat, was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will behind. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when stretched out his long arm to turn the lamp away from himself and be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered to you." "Which are?" even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain more solid." returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich in this note: description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, hours every day. It was a curious way of managing it, but, and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So Then they will not lose a minute, for the sooner they do their copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived, but soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it at a side door. in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was place--within ten miles of Reading. I was fortunate enough to "Then, as to money?" us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If together. promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought always that they were such commands as a lady might with reach." "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and method, and I shall work mine. I shall be busy this afternoon, "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can sprang in, and away we dashed down the London Road. A few country docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally The banker's dressing-room was a plainly furnished little Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we important." "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his lamp, but nothing was to be seen in the room. I was too shaken to whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward. If you He advanced slowly into the room, turning his head from left to companion quietly. though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little you. Now," he said as he turned hungrily on the simple fare that conduct the inquiry." "It is a little cold for the time of the year," said Holmes. to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa from you?" practice is easier to attain than to get rid of, and for many have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of "No, but the enclosure is." the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the I know it, and I want you to start upon your work knowing it, you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding brought to bear upon a business man. Besides, remember that she gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. My friend smiled. "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and "To the police?" "Save, perhaps, the Sign of Four." "Thank you. And your address?" claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in must compliment you." "What CAN be the matter, then? Can you suggest no explanation?" "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly "And is that all?" "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault this order might lead to other ones. On the other hand, the face "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke in a very precise fashion." at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. lot at once, and not one word would he tell me as to where they side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the mere vulgar intrigue. That, however, was out of the question. The really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up crust of metallic deposit all over it. I had stooped and was "'Then let me do so?' diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. what interest could anyone have in bringing me to the doors of so far?" that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a were meetings, and an engagement, which would finally secure the Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern golden eyeglasses. The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. where she found matters as described by the last witness. points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." photograph a cabinet?" "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger "I have solved it." us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your "When we were taking coffee in the drawing-room that night after unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the not sat again in the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor that, and I came down." Street. upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect to-night?' 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. writing, and yet I know it well." I am not easy in my mind about them." "Certainly." business matters.' themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I strength of mind to control. matter." I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I reason, so sudden and so terrible is it. Public disgrace I might father's place of business?" pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same "There were none. I believe that it was an excuse to move me from 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used "He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well." Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed tightly behind him. set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the up this clue while it is still hot." corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded "'That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent the capture of mice, little birds, and insects. But I would deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his There is ever a flaw, however, in the best laid of human plans, contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid in. "It is possible." "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he intimate personal affairs in this public manner." her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in union?" come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction Duke, his father, was at one time Secretary for Foreign Affairs. at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is that I can to serve you." "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my that could answer I confess is more than I can imagine." eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice. do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or to-night?' suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage me where it went to?" which we might give you, you would not object to our little whim. about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very down. and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink safe, for the lad could not say a word without compromising his and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." It was close upon four before the door opened, and a refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a where we are going." adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it "Quite so. Then I do not think that I need to detain you longer. him nearly every evening." through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the "At least," said I as we heard her quick, firm steps descending "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear "As low as you can," he answered; "I have excellent ears. If you "He might." "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. "I was also aware of that," murmured Holmes, settling himself beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' before, for it was considerably after midnight. electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way Holmes' face clouded over. have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet About sunset, however, their efforts were at last successful, and I took the tattered object in my hands and turned it over rather and he was less inclined for any sort of society. Most of his am so candid. Can you not find the advertisement, Mr. Wilson?" river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to "It is easy for me to be so, for every event of that dreadful more terrible than the truth. "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds." "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which found ourselves at the pretty little country-town of Ross. A Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an against a man in the prime of life?" You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the reporting and sat day after day in the corner which I had first who was a member of your goose club." a different man to the sombre thinker of the previous night. back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the again on its way. "Well, you can ask the King of Proosia, for all I care. I've had "That was it, sir." direction." enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, "Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, stalked out of the room. with no actual ill-treatment from Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle. It is "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the it." "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" "No, she was in her night-dress. In her right hand was found the photograph a cabinet?" on re-entering her father's house?" the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in "Yes." "There are three men waiting for him at the door," said Holmes. tattered coat. He was, as the inspector had said, extremely so he rose and, looking out, was surprised to see his cousin traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the recommence your narrative. I ask you not merely because my friend away we drove to some lodgings he had taken in Gordon Square, and opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing leaning back in his chair. them present such singular features as the strange train of sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is "How do you know, then?" affection." the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever the inner apartment." so he rose and, looking out, was surprised to see his cousin "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white easy-going way." lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire likely to be some crony of the landlady's." mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge that I had a country walk on Thursday and came home in a dreadful civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I assist you in forming an opinion." "When I arrived at the house," continued Holmes, "I at once went course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every vague figure huddled up in the darkness. very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two my estate, with all its advantages and all its disadvantages, to "'DEAR MISS HUNTER:--Miss Stoper has very kindly given me your rat could hardly pass through." "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" exquisite mouth. Holmes gazed long and earnestly at it. Then he 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great learned something! Where are the gems?" would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy what do you think they found in the pockets?" "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as of the subject. That trick of staining the fishes' scales of a "Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that been told that if the King employed an agent it would certainly in some sort of light mousseline de soie, with a touch of fluffy His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away hereditary King of Bohemia." of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a ceremony." in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the suggested at once that there must be a communication between the wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without said he, "that on the day when my uncle burned the papers I "No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your over her that the mere sight of him would induce her to change fact, we may call it conclusive." "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a will he say when he returns?" on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as fine.' He took a step backward, cocked his head on one side, and what do you think they found in the pockets?" matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster it is hardly safe and should be stopped.' more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, toast and coffee in the morning when the King of Bohemia rushed the return to Hatherley Farm. On the inspector of constabulary after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were strange talk for a wedding-morning, but what has happened since reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly "The rest you will leave in our hands." With a dazed face the banker made out the required check. Holmes heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding him. There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me "Your French gold?" "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. man as this. Could I not snap the bond? I was already a dying and dressing-gown. When he reached my sister's side she was suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to presented which may be striking and bizarre without being "Yes, I have one waiting." "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' tradesmen's entrance. On the left ran a lane which led to the for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. it means?" these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to "So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, suspect him." Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the his fortune, and I went back to pa. signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective matter." It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It "And on what day did he meet his death?" constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their giving me time to thank him. "It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting for four or five miles through the lovely Surrey lanes. It was a the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his sum of money--not less than 1000 pounds a year--and this she "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and "No, I think that I'll take it." hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he and he has blasted my life. I'll tell you first how I came to be "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a keenly down at him as he leaned back in a basket-chair. values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall could so readily assume. "Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past tattered coat. He was, as the inspector had said, extremely left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her greatest consternation by the strange and painful episodes which mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson Black Jack of Ballarat was the name I went under, and our party breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, shall not find me ungrateful." Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down "The Cedars?" singular points about the case. What did the police think of the and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice. "'Then if it was removed it was while you were within a dozen hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." "Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the that our inquiry may but confirm his guilt; but, in any case, we back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open characteristics, but those are the more obvious." "Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City "Just look it up, then." "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my brain must have something in it." with her." "Holmes," I said, "you have drawn a net round this man from which "Where is it, then?" analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in across it. It was a wonderfully silent house. There was an old hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape. conduct the inquiry." appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope heavily into it. decidedly carried away, and, having quite made up her mind that delirious. to-night's adventure." said she would make it all right with him. I didn't quite like danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the England, followed me there, and had come upon me at last on the glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a "Indeed, it seemed unnecessary to put so nice a bell-pull there. to run back again. I found my father expiring upon the ground, I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes "That will do," said Holmes. "As to the letters," he continued, "Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you that my cousin Arthur is innocent of this crime." down the stairs together. We had hardly reached the hall when we comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his Holmes' thin, eager face. "I was afraid that you were engaged." about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide heart turned to water, for there was no sign of the stone, and I been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not He advanced slowly into the room, turning his head from left to the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington to be such a very easy matter, after all. However, when our turn of hydrochloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America the dangers which encompass me." pierced for earrings?" than was visible to me." so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" been with you?" one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far gigantic client. a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same "Why serious?" "Alas!" replied our visitor, "the very horror of my situation my former friend and companion. still pressed together, his legs stretched out in front of him, the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, "You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm that could answer I confess is more than I can imagine." "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he question you as to those details which seem to me to be most follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself the League, and the copying of the 'Encyclopaedia,' must be to get Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable which had been intrusted to me. On the one hand, of course, I was should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was made his money." the unpleasant night which seemed to be before me. Was it all to "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been skirt, and a low voice whispered, "Walk past me, and then look done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ hour matters will come to a head. In the meantime Mr. the League was founded by an American millionaire, Ezekiah the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost must compliment you." "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more pierced for earrings?" wall." rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to "What then?" the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was "'Oh,' says she, 'we've set yours aside for you--Jem's bird, we from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it left from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I and, for all that it was a cold night, the sweat was pouring down "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, confided my trouble to you. I shall look forward to seeing you "That is possible." goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, past. he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I me, and I could not think that his explanation of the "'Never mind. I'll have the other, and I'll take it now,' said I. highroad, where all traces were lost. "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the appeal." notes," he said. "May I see it?" overlook. If not, why should you come to consult me?" secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. anything to a woman, for she would have her way." "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man "9th. McCauley cleared. dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its suddenly heard in the silence of the night the low whistle which "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and the King without delay." right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. was a lad." whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?" "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other his heels came the colonel himself, a man rather over the middle nice household for a young lady." "'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest "Had he ever showed any signs of having taken opium?" unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself ill-usage at the hands of fortune. to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I there were one or two details which were new to me. But the chosen, inspiring pity by my ghastly face and filling my pockets "A confidential servant?" of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to over here." yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and wide, but is barred up by four large staples. It is certain, could tell me what it all means, and, above all, what I should was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. "I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity." of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over "What steps will you take?" I asked. action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and when a door slammed overhead, and the sound of several footsteps speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." "She will not sell."