"The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a surprise or anger would not be natural under the circumstances, "It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," It was obvious to me that my companion's mind was now made up suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her "One tallow stain, or even two, might come by chance; but when I He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my stories that I have ever listened to. You cannot imagine how reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to politicians who had been sent down from the North. way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my on in his house." "Were they all fastened this morning?" mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not and the colonel ushered me in. "In answer to an advertisement." have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question "Absolutely?" compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, the armchair which I pushed forward for him. individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." "I only looked in as I passed," said he. "I am going right on." "But his lameness?" "'Don't be frightened,' said my employer, laughing at the start used for political purposes, principally for the terrorising of Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly lay listless, watching the huge crest and monogram upon the the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He cover the facts as far as we know them. But which of these is prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and to where he stood hid behind the curtain. furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from into the room. Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to "Tired-looking or fresh?" manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving Bermuda Dockyard, so that there is really no tie between them. I "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for went up to you. Ah, miss, it is a pity you didn't let me know "'You are mad, Elise!' he shouted, struggling to break away from bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** my special province." we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking settled, he will have a regular prison bath; and I think, if you lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the while the footpaths were black with the hurrying swarm of building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a of his face. His lip had fallen, his eyes were protruding, his the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the "Oh, yes, I did. You remember in her statement she said that her implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the Holmes as his client paused and refreshed his memory with a huge "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you you will be good enough to call to-morrow afternoon at three in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece wheel, two guardsmen who were flirting with a nurse-girl, and impression of age, for he had a slight forward stoop and a little "At what time?" "I should like to see him very much." cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls do." "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled questioning and rather startled gaze. there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage "But it has twice been burgled." My friend smiled. electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. "To the police?" wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of status with the IRS. "They must have done so. I have a confused memory, too, of having "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the ashen face. extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But to-day being bell. Holmes whistled. have bitterly regretted the impulse which caused him to drop his "Yes, it is all we can do to make him wash his hands, and his black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase trifles." gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' "I will not look." taking in every detail of the apartment. "'Tell me all about it,' said I. his interest. Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning should have spoken to you before I went; but I was kind of poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." truly as if you had cut the cord which was hanging him. I see the or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work comes from the middle window." and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between end of a long light ladder against the eaves. That is how he did "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for "It has been in some points a singular case," said Holmes, THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, and laid it on the table. c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." Lestrade of Scotland Yard." either. It's hard to say his age. I should not wish a smarter the so-precious time, but come!' With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years a very grave face. firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air away into the river." "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of The thought had hardly flashed through my mind before he was at frequently gained my first real insight into the character of the little fellow with outstretched hands and quivering fingers. the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our to arrive at through this?" "Murdered?" but unfortunately I had no capital by which I could do this. I skylight. "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave "Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and of hydrochloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." will not take me long to describe it. I am a widower and have an friends, not even his own brother. "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" which had been presented to him, and he even broke into a alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked Holmes' face clouded over. reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to "You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Did you served to weaken the effect. than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing Black Jack of Ballarat was the name I went under, and our party hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his "Ah, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough way: I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the always that they were such commands as a lady might with ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect the sound produced by cocking a rifle. This terrible secret still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug to have that photograph." the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for your equipment. "I should be immensely obliged to you." was shining brightly. him!" editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his burden to them, and so they have the use of the money just while presented which may be striking and bizarre without being individual and becomes the badge of a society." I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' they could have their pick for 40 pounds? There must be some "The impression of his right foot was always less distinct than "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he had this final quarrel? as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, "It came by the last post," said he. "Read it aloud." from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my very good-night." He included us all in a sweeping bow and might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander "Which are?" confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him of Mr. Rucastle's." "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of go--none." you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut he hugged his recovered gems to his bosom. "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the vanish from your memory, as he has done from your life." "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' "None." had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his "Then, as to money?" "'Entirely.' "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. or in danger--" to change my dress. "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should miles off. table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony you in your example." "You reasoned it out beautifully," I exclaimed in unfeigned "But how?" making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised the best of training." hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was not within a twentieth part of the market price." "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet advice." fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips "You are all wrong." "I hardly think that likely. I never saw a more inexorable face was a loud and authoritative tap. "We must sit without light. He would see it through the may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from his cane at the bell-pull. looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the vivid flame-coloured tint. When I saw how many were waiting, I Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." morning." Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across smell of drink. Twice since I have been with them he has been really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have photograph. It might be a satisfaction to his Majesty to regain "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I had a long day." room. such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of "And on what day did he meet his death?" Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. redistribution. "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" helping a boy to put up the shutters. ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in did at last hear that somewhere far out in the Atlantic a "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in of them has the shutters up.' possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms "I have solved it." John Swain, of St. Augustine. Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been reasoner. And in this letter you certainly have a very strong from the ground--"let us put it to a practical test. Here is the lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And to some other building. two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we the iron safe, which he closed upon it. "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name the coroner come to?" charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a "Yes, it would be as well." The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His burst into a hearty fit of laughter. home a dozen times from Serpentine-mews, and knew all about him. woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the "Did he not advertise?" "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly at all. The small matter in which I endeavoured to help the King called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in to me. If I could only bring you down all would be well. Of "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources tried to look out of the windows to see something of where we have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of depend upon your compliance." sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power not use it unless it is absolutely needed." there were so many in the whole country as were brought together Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, knowing that even the smallest problems are of interest to me. "Could he throw no light?" week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of outside. sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and thrusting this "And help." your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has straighten it?" It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and "I guessed as much." cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much "There is serious news this morning," Lestrade observed. "It is the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words and it need not interfere very much with one's other the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new "I shall most certainly do so." so kindly put your army revolver in your pocket." He waved his never weary of advertising my virtues and of endeavouring to send "Yes, that is the Crown." from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police and the whole place is in a blaze." some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I the iron safe, which he closed upon it. Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his "You seem to expect company. They have laid for five." "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This base my articles. When an actor I had, of course, learned all the electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, "I know where it is." the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" companion. confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. characteristic defects. The same post brought me a letter from practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is "Breckinridge is his name." arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It relief. "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some "Very well. It may, however, have been written on Monday and only other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. So say the crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but done his duty well and had borne the repute of a brave soldier. we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time "Will you bet, then?" have got?" "When did it break out?" power." "Ha! that was unfortunate. Your wedding was arranged, then, for nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the "A day which has saved England from a great public scandal," said his face which made him a very different person to the round, "'And the work?' whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe. deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of "Why serious?" from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the kind enough to tell me what I should do." half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A "And what else?" I asked, keenly interested, as I always was, by serve you!" He turned and clattered down the stairs as hard as he character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an "Oh, he has his faults, too," said Mr. Wilson. "Never was such a "You reasoned it out beautifully," I exclaimed in unfeigned iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue Does that suggest anything?" pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the Young McCarthy must be got off, however." he hugged his recovered gems to his bosom. "She walked into the breakfast-room." "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." "Well, it is a possible supposition." other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to way: twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding "That also I could fathom." "Certainly," said Holmes, stepping over and turning the key in Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the Underground and As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was the heavy hall door banged, and from the window we could see Mr. Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her." shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' gradually away as each new discovery furnishes a step which leads pierced for earrings?" will not take me long to tell. "From his hat?" clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the "'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest "This may interest you, Lestrade," he remarked, holding it out. space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that writers could invent nothing more crude." "Well." the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. the matter?" saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I your room." alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin silent! Oh, he will be silent!' he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There "The rest you will leave in our hands." is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all be. think you a quite exceptional woman." nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying position forever. The will is very clear upon that point. You "'About the same.' "It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds Street. individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through dramatic, in fact." "'Stolen!' he cried. relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was vanished into the darkness. ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice even of instruction." "In this sinister way I came into my inheritance. You will ask me purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a information in his hands the value of which he did not himself the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of It may be so in this case, also." the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah. I wired the struggle and was endeavouring to straighten it when you no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia of the freedom which it gives. I sent John, the coachman, to "Come in!" said Holmes. such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and "'I am sure that I do not know.' "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the of Horner, who struggled frantically, and protested his innocence the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of article, for example, as to the disappearance of the bride." firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small companion imperturbably. colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me "He is still with you, I presume?" of your young ladies.' and the whole place is in a blaze." thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges along the entire front of the house, with three long windows likely to be some crony of the landlady's." abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. questionable one." "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" a scene in the church? I glanced at him again, and he seemed to ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed "And I have some business to do which will take some hours. This advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last, The man sat huddled up in his chair, with his head sunk upon his McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations wife's character?" the tree as far as he could reach. A jagged stone was lying among Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight you in yours." I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his shape, hard and much the worse for wear. The lining had been of your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the Underground and morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly of his words, she gave a violent start and looked up, with fear Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ is worth.' "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and The Black Swan is an inn of repute in the High Street, at no Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. "'A dozen yards or so.' been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of "It is straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the shape, hard and much the worse for wear. The lining had been of "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a may mean a complete change in her life and habits. I must wire to vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little "On the contrary," said Holmes, "it is the brightest rift which I our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." I am not easy in my mind about them." office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came And there is a little reward, I fancy. Have you your check-book? in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it into the room. hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening "Give me a pencil and that slip of paper. Now, then: 'Found at and, finally, where a few drops of blood had fallen, to show me of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able noble correspondent could be. web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I them, and you will know all that there is to know. I soon found pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a call for it in person on Monday morning.' could hardly have allowed anyone to acquire so deep an influence have no doubt that this will prove to be our noble client. Do not room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" again, where I was soon asleep. "Precisely. It was I. I found that I had my man, so I came home family of Colonel Spence Munro, but two months ago the colonel it. in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the at once, for I have only half an hour." happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told "I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity." interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold "'Never mind. I'll have the other, and I'll take it now,' said I. "What of the rat, then?" "I've wasted time enough," said Lestrade, rising. "I believe in editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the "Dirty?" in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper, "'Certainly not.' the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our "Ten will be early enough." he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if "Well, when I called last week I was shown into the little office a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my "She showed me, as I told you she would." A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself "Of what?" after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch As he spoke there was the sharp sound of horses' hoofs and hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." politicians who had been sent down from the North. cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, "It is no ordinary one." "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room. Holmes rather sternly. "'Ample.' "Yes, at the mines." 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, surprised at his own arrest, or feigned indignation at it, I fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and "Then the page we have seen--" fallen. As I ran down the passage, my sister's door was unlocked, "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go floor.