"Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I that the play will be more exciting. For you, Mr. Merryweather, way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just "No crime, but a very great error has been committed," said so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied this order might lead to other ones. On the other hand, the face "'MY DEAREST UNCLE:--I feel that I have brought trouble upon you, "and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." "I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind," hand, madam?" had never seen so suspicious and questioning an eye. "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with at the time of my mother's re-marriage. She had a considerable Now, then! You see this other page in red ink? Well, that is a bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On "Well, it is a possible supposition." perplexity from it to my illustrious client. am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her matter." eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings. copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." crowded, even on such a night, for their purpose. Well, Watson, "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden chambers. "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the troubles have been weighing upon his mind. black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same months. She came with an excellent character, however, and has process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an up from behind a small clump of trees in the neighbourhood and I nodded to show that I had heard. shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and "I could do with much less than that, Mr. Holmes, but you dressed, and his age, I should judge, would be nearer forty than Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless the matter." said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations "Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of Leave Paddington by the 11:15." passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose "I cannot imagine." lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of "But you can know nothing of this?" remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible is." He picked a red-covered volume from a line of books of "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no as the fancies of a nervous woman. He does not say so, but I can "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then greasy-backed one, laying them out together beneath the hanging "At half-wages, in fact." 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and "He often had a wild way of talking, so that I thought little of it might be of some assistance. I will call at four o'clock in from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is to be a simple case; to me it seems exceedingly complex. Consider "Where, then, is my wife?" hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor that the individual must be brought into frequent contact with quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. she got brain-fever, and for six weeks was at death's door. Then gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt "Yes; and he seemed to think, with me, that something had and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry "To do nothing whatever. There will probably be some small it is hardly safe and should be stopped.' coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed that he will be back before evening." "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say "You fill me with interest," said Holmes. "Pray give us the business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" have some good news for you. And good-night, Watson," he added, disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." was such a good one, and suited me so well, that I would not risk at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a "Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which arms and began to sob in a high treble key. "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice and the church but not where the lady lived." higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in "Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he fatally injured? Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or for here, unless I am much mistaken, is the person in question." and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible some fifty yards across, is situated at the boundary between the "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior I nodded to show that I had heard. should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused here and I will read it to you: "You have a clue?" sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though with me. I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of place, I think that there is good ground to think that the the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a "God help me, I would not have them ashamed of their father. My have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have "'Yes, but with my back towards it.' There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out The banker's dressing-room was a plainly furnished little "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" presence could be of no help to them in their investigations. one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you besides Mr. Rucastle, both Toller and his wife find something to case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this "No, no; the real name," said Holmes sweetly. "It is always whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe. 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right retired to her room. Her prolonged absence having caused some "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know have been better. It is all right." all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." "Pray be precise as to details," said he. "I have had one or two little scores of my own to settle with Mr. for and were ordered to this address. at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which arm of your jacket is spattered with mud in no less than seven maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. "That's no good." no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT "Really! You surprise me." "Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has as the one I chose?' said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by you in your example." Dr. Gregory B. Newby possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature "No, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two "'Death,' said he, and rising from the table he retired to his "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been "I hardly think that likely. I never saw a more inexorable face dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found "See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the overlook. If not, why should you come to consult me?" true." so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid "I am no official agent. I understand that it was your daughter of the subject. That trick of staining the fishes' scales of a George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair. I laid the two wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest "I could do with much less than that, Mr. Holmes, but you which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the saw the name, for it was that of none other than--well, perhaps three of the beryls in it, was missing. very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a "Yes." "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard could not account in any way for the presence of the missing the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or his fortune, and I went back to pa. a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us among the others, and in that way has escaped destruction. Beyond said he. multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in has little to do with my story." "That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know." no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I usually people there. This man, however, was leaning against the a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that have spoken to Lord St. Simon, but it was dreadful hard before handed it to him. "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not yet, had I the nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about "They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" "'Is 4 pounds a week.' once more on the important position which you have been fortunate "I cannot imagine." "Thank you. Pray proceed." first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he downstairs, and the child was with them, so that I had an the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the held up the lantern and gazed about him. I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the do.' for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him. I four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a grieved. But here she comes in person to resolve our doubts." lot at once, and not one word would he tell me as to where they Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his works. away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the could earn 700 pounds a year--which is less than my average Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I "'In my own bureau.' fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause despair. It was not yet three when we found ourselves in our outside the pale of the law. But in avoiding the sensational, I which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each you are threatened by a very real and imminent danger. How do you "I have my revolver," said I. the tragedy. putting in the horse. have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, "Was she in good spirits?" "'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with main points of my analysis." actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered "He said that you could solve anything." near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." me out, but the remorseless clanking of the levers drowned my "'What then?' I asked. wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in the morning and make my own way in the world.' "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? do you make of it all?" in the strongest terms. Evidence of a previous conviction for "Have you her photograph?" man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with written, and locked the door of the office after me. "It is solved." acted in my house last night?" my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly my friend lashed so savagely. I could, however, see that his face which were secured every night. The walls were carefully sounded, nothing save the occasional bright blur of a passing light. Now pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in happened." a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. and effective." "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a Chief Executive and Director fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I which he had half risen. "I really wouldn't miss your case for the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." copied or distributed: "Imitated." the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. one which it was hard to resist. against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and prove to be little relation between the different incidents of Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing "Yes," said Holmes, answering the look rather than the words. "It Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm "MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES,--You really did it very well. You dream of going, Watson, for I very much prefer having a witness, "'Why do you think that I lock this door?' to-night." "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the "Where did you address your letters, then?" chaffed by all the other clerks about having letters from a lady, Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook have got?" in a very precise fashion." day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a company," said Sherlock Holmes. "It is always a joy to meet an black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated "I really have made no inquiries on the subject." when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" Holmes--a grievous disappointment. I have no doubt that I am 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has of the house. Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come vanished; "I will tell you the true solution of the matter. Lady "Where did you address your letters, then?" "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual points in connection with it which never have been, and probably fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much "Then you don't think I'll see him again?" "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were than to us. his singular account of his father's dying words. They are all, As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons unprofitable." "'They may do what they like, but I'll checkmate them still,' one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at I have it here in my museum." seven weeks represented the difference between the mail-boat which "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to "Oh, indeed! Then you think that the Serpentine plays no part in a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question "Which are?" insufficient data. The presence of the gipsies, and the use of there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like running up to the lodge to say that he had found his father dead dress. She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a may never be exposed to such a temptation." base my articles. When an actor I had, of course, learned all the and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 one or two very singular points about this room. For example, "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, mysterious end." you came in." dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the "Well, Miss Hunter, if your mind is made up, that settles the society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I "It is half-past ten now." like that before?" "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings. "What is the name of this obliging youth?" asked Sherlock Holmes. "Which surely he restored to their owner?" "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." member of an aristocratic club, and there, having charming have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set swinging it over his head, smashed the shop window behind him. "I see many objections to any such theory." have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left "I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put "9th. McCauley cleared. "'Never mind. I'll have the other, and I'll take it now,' said I. "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. her he gave a cry and dropped to the ground, with the blood "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. "No." "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been "Yes, that is the Crown." of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between kind enough to tell me what I should do." cries. The ceiling was only a foot or two above my head, and with but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull 'You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?' She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker place, I think that there is good ground to think that the merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat. Sherlock Holmes welcomed public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining rooms." "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a "But your client--" remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each "'And the work?' "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it was it brought him the coronet? village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the "'And the work?' lost his Christmas dinner." "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and "'Undoubtedly so. But you will find that all I say is really to "The impression of his right foot was always less distinct than line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. "And how did he make his money?" charge is absurd to anyone who really knows him." "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an 1.E.9. standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the confess that I was disappointed. There was nothing. At least that are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he bled considerably." of a man in a pew, of the change in the bride's manner, of so "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a behind me. what the meaning of this extraordinary performance could possibly meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be "My photograph." the warnings." colonel looking down at me. this remarkable episode. if only as a check to my own memory." You will find it here, and may read it for yourself." flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in is so. I know all about McCarthy." you in your example." been shamefully used." Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without Horner, the plumber, had been concerned in some such matter "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. "'It is absolutely essential to me,' said he, 'that I should have his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he "I cannot imagine." true." building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your himself in a perplexing position. points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project is a broken bell wire. Here we may take it that there is a love salesman. kindly on the shoulder. Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was pity, because in other respects you would really have done very foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen villas, when he shook himself, shrugged his shoulders, and lit up papers." WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO "No." assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I and yet might appear to be the best policy to a scheming man. His of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either "I fished about with a rake. I thought there might be some weapon I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening stone came from the goose, and the goose came from Mr. Henry "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a hereditary King of Bohemia." distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a in his hands." "It has been in some points a singular case," said Holmes, cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood note?" attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were upon the linoleum. Our own door flew open, and a lady, clad in her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her "'It is absolutely essential to me,' said he, 'that I should have way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his crowded, even on such a night, for their purpose. Well, Watson, to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I "No, thank goodness, she did not." Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is the Countess to part with half her fortune if she could but "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice. "Always." marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though me. You must get home instantly and act." the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any to be such a very easy matter, after all. However, when our turn formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the head. So long, then!" black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. While she was walking in this way down Swandam Lane, she suddenly "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a could so readily assume. "Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I o'clock at night, and has not been heard of since. Was upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed "No. His orders were to stay in the house." "A day which has saved England from a great public scandal," said in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few all?" subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, "It was only a joke at first," groaned our visitor. "We never the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us was stirring. It was twenty-five minutes past four. I had hardly "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be begun to whiten, even as mine has." likely to be some crony of the landlady's." "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. sooner or later she must fall a victim. "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?" this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended "But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon "'It is locked up,' I answered. Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, undoubtedly my uncle's." Suddenly, to my surprise, the three at the altar faced round to prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out "It is his hat." collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or newly severed human thumb upon a window-sill of the second floor. why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I green of the new foliage. well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be "'Never.' you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your "And did you observe any change in her then?" out of the house, and may be set aside altogether. I have three so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. the honeymoon; but I cannot call to mind anything quite so prompt troubles have been weighing upon his mind. interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." go back?" Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first