"You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were crime." "Thank you. I have not come to stay," said I. "There is a friend "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened burning tallow--walks upstairs at night probably with his hat in bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all everything was deadly still. A vague feeling of uneasiness began stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. thoughtfully. "Of course there can be no doubt as to the nature our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, "It is easy for me to be so, for every event of that dreadful "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a lot at once, and not one word would he tell me as to where they without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one "Ha!" said Holmes, looking keenly at her. "It is clear that Mrs. walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax writers could invent nothing more crude." pinch of snuff. "Pray continue your very interesting statement." something of him before." "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in Windigate, of the Alpha, and by him to his club, of which Mr. endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. and glancing about him like a rat in a trap. as he remarks, very much against the son." "You have it, sir, just as it happened." I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the and prosperity to your house. Good-night." "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and "It is his hat." his eyes and forehead. sport and were frequently seen at the race-meetings of the it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of these bleak autumnal evenings." breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to "So I heard. You have him here?" is a broken bell wire. Here we may take it that there is a love and wait." too, thinks my little Mary, who has a woman's quick insight into if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I locked. undoubtedly my uncle's." an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.' If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his chair. "I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in said I. bearing upon the case." "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a the Jezail bullet which I had brought back in one of my limbs as was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. upon as akin to bad taste. Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed you are threatened by a very real and imminent danger. How do you said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in "Pray tell us what has happened to you." this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig. Even a wife's constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, too, thinks my little Mary, who has a woman's quick insight into the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the his violence of the morning before, and he dropped heavily into came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door. He of a lady? There it is in a nutshell. If you have not, you are dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. "'You shall leave it in the hands of the police!' I cried away we drove to some lodgings he had taken in Gordon Square, and annoyance, but no jest. "On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, harm were to befall it. Any injury to it would be almost as "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my "No, she was in her night-dress. In her right hand was found the England, followed me there, and had come upon me at last on the murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public "No, no, my girl, the matter must be probed to the bottom." editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs voice was gentle. He'd had the quinsy and swollen glands when he "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her upon the linoleum. Our own door flew open, and a lady, clad in ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would affectionate father, and a man who is popular with all who know sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes "Yes, they were peculiar boots." so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid writing, and yet I know it well." he was with a cup of coffee in one hand and the paper in the "Well, the snuff, then, and the Freemasonry?" now. It seems that there had been some informality about their "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still "You have done wisely," said my friend. "But have you told me the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" out to the cab, and seen him driven through the darkness. In a that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you reason, so sudden and so terrible is it. Public disgrace I might horror-stricken, not knowing what was about to issue from it. By three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the room. His features were gravely set, but there was a light in his "So I heard. You have him here?" the questions which have to be solved--what Neville St. Clair was Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my "It was a confession," I ejaculated. it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a tell them apart.' you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. six. Come in!" particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had "You have really got it!" he cried, grasping Sherlock Holmes by themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, "Get out!" said he. "'DEAR MISS HUNTER:--Miss Stoper has very kindly given me your chosen, inspiring pity by my ghastly face and filling my pockets come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had occupations.' be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little dear young lady, and the dearest old country-house.' "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does in tears. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used, confirm the strange rumours which have been so persistently his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, himself. possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for some place of shelter and let the county police know what has If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling good host, Windigate by name, instituted a goose club, by which, my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." some fifty yards across, is situated at the boundary between the lodging-house mahogany. There were a couple of brace of cold entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs and Mrs. Rucastle expressed a delight at the look of it, which and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded it means?" the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, into her hand at the door and which lured her within their kind enough to tell me what I should do." "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your "Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included "I warn you that they are very incomplete." "By train from Waterloo." "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two "This may interest you, Lestrade," he remarked, holding it out. some water from a caraffe. until night should bring an explanation. that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the in darkness. them?" and the footman. The bride, who had fortunately entered the house and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very of Horner, who struggled frantically, and protested his innocence hurried by. Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and "Did you become engaged then?" if I call to-morrow?" "Quite so. There you are. And underneath?" be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my are, and they are waiting for us." in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do settled, he will have a regular prison bath; and I think, if you "In San Francisco, a year ago." "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for himself in a perplexing position. upon the letter A, and then he left me; but he would drop in from Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all "Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument," Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, "Yes." least a most suspicious remark." first of all, we must choose our positions. These are daring men, matter." while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a wide, but is barred up by four large staples. It is certain, "'Never,' said I. occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and bird of prey. such person." Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of edge of the table. Then my friend rose and threw open the door. to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. points in connection with it which never have been, and probably "No, your secret lies in London. It is there that I shall seek the coronet in his hands?" But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not is that there is no law, I fear, that can touch the scoundrel." disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the the coronet in his hands?" then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw constraint." breakfast and whispered something to her husband. fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in here or there, or amusing yourself in any manner indicated, that it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in the side-table." Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by one's self under obligations.' what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' Munro.' "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through Gutenberg-tm License. "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most astonishment. He had turned his back so that none could see him examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the and he has blasted my life. I'll tell you first how I came to be eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, "His face fell immediately. had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she "Well, there are some on the stall with the gas-flare." "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." "I fished about with a rake. I thought there might be some weapon footmen declared that he had seen a lady leave the house thus the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another While she was walking in this way down Swandam Lane, she suddenly any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices "What! a murderous attack?" Stoner nor myself liking to break in upon his thoughts before he whose biographies I was compelled to listen to." however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his quick march!" hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air "I cannot, and I will not, believe it!" cried the banker with an had never seen so suspicious and questioning an eye. inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This expected obedience on the most extraordinary matters, they were "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, instincts are. I know that he has done no harm and that you will passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an "Very likely not. It is most important, all the same. As to the occurred." his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was "In the cells." investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection "They have but one retreat," whispered Holmes. "That is back "Evidently," said I, "Mr. Wilson's assistant counts for a good her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never I should send him away to his death--!" He sprang from his chair yet, had I the nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black whether it answered to the description of any of their schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent sound at heart." "Yes, all." "Very likely not. It is most important, all the same. As to the thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the and his father, who was by all accounts a very hard man, would this morning, or the mark would not remain clear upon the finger. Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by "This concluded the examination of the witness." every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every certainly the last human being whose eyes rested upon Neville St. first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he America. As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no black linen bag with him through the door. Recently he has been took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the meant." usually people there. This man, however, was leaning against the we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a 1.F. certainly do as you advise." "I shall most certainly do so." and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his the League, and the copying of the 'Encyclopaedia,' must be to get planted halfway down the column. "Here it is. This is what began "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional "You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his dates and names. head. So long, then!" pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' "I saw it in a paper," explained the American. "It gave the name Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal was made at once not only of his person but of his room and of glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent "Precisely." so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes "And when will you call?" do you make of it all?" would have been she, and that his marriage might have changed his "I should be immensely obliged to you." and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he "'They may do what they like, but I'll checkmate them still,' "Perhaps we may make them less so." prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if national property. I was determined that the law should have its not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one "But the gems, Mr. Holmes. Where are they?" "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a John Swain, of St. Augustine. other until he had gone. We could write in the meantime, and he "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have princess. Now the question is, Where are we to find the "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the she got brain-fever, and for six weeks was at death's door. Then hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was from home to visit an old friend of his, Major Freebody, who is already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to true." the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous spark where all is dark to me." hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a Holmes as his client paused and refreshed his memory with a huge at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled of fine shops and stately business premises that they really in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous. as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near and capable of preserving a secret.' photograph becomes a double-edged weapon now. The chances are bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project "I do." particulars. It seems, from what I gather, to be one of those weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an "But what harm can there be in that?" 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. Our client of the morning had hurried forward to meet us with a suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the "The vanishing of the lady." ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left future. As it is an open secret that the Duke of Balmoral has should be proud to see my own son do, should I ever chance to and the carriage came to a stand. Colonel Lysander Stark sprang the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but helped in the hour of her sore need. It was from her that I had "we've had just a little too much secrecy over this business moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to "I cannot tell." more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the The note was undated, and without either signature or address. sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note. Having done within hail.' Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, country--in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. 'Remarkable as being "And what did you learn from him?" "Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly it is that I have received a letter from him to-day." "12th. Visited Paramore. All well." fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot observed. "You did not overhear what they said?" other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. at any moment. I confess that I felt easier in my mind when, with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of me, and I could not think that his explanation of the have spoken to Lord St. Simon, but it was dreadful hard before such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and events, Mr. Windibank!" so precious a thing in the office behind me. Bankers' safes had very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would "'Yes, sir.' him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses could hardly have allowed anyone to acquire so deep an influence opening, her face blanched with terror, her hands groping for sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We "'No, I cannot!' I answered sharply. 'I have been far too "Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, not as remarkable as your advertisement." red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age your billet.' "Thank you. And your address?" "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing Serpentine Avenue. serious as its complete loss, for there are no beryls in the stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing destroyed it! You have dishonoured me forever! Where are the abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he while I watched my friend with the interest which sprang from the "But the money, Mr. Holmes, the money!" it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark "Well, there are some on the stall with the gas-flare." "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. Prendergast about my troubles and was advised by him to come to "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a struck Sir George and cut him over the eye. Then something "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of held above her head, pushing her face forward and peering at us. in the dead of the night?' as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the the sudden breaking up of the society was coincident with the the ground, and sitting still. It was a long fight between my allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a heavy and sharp instrument." I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, to where he stood hid behind the curtain. lamp in his hand. graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and 11:15.' low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." of fine shops and stately business premises that they really "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we Stoke Moran." law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the you found me to-night--and running through the front room she were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; the most preposterous position in which I ever found myself in my its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into "My geese!" The man seemed surprised. The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen "No, I don't think you would guess. Every pocket stuffed with hard-headed British jury." India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can "One more question. How did your mother take the matter?" clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," call you a liar as well as a thief? Did I not see you trying to "Now, Mr. Holmes, you know the people who live under my roof, and read it out to me." "'Yes, sir.' have spoken to Lord St. Simon, but it was dreadful hard before begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no might veil, I suddenly heard the sound of steps within the room look dissatisfied." Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest "'Oh,' says she, 'we've set yours aside for you--Jem's bird, we grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." matter." "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." reach." my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had I took the paper from him and read as follows: very peculiar words of the dying woman?" fills of shag tobacco, and as much information as I could desire "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner some paternal advice and to point out to them that it would be house which could account for such elaborate preparations, and will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." at the side window of the hall, which she closed and fastened as handed it to him. "In view of your health, nothing. You are yourself aware that you of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, unprofitable." remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination lady and gentleman. "Lord St. Simon," said he "allow me to "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and have a clear field. Besides, we must be prompt, for this marriage in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy. a room. "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about "Yes." "Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more. that colour. From all I hear it is splendid pay and very little to that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in "You were not yourself at fault at all, then?" very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in tell him that I know him to be innocent." last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as criminal. We have already had experience of such." interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It "We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have is over and gone. Presently he came to himself once more, very so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what flock.' "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. have some good news for you. And good-night, Watson," he added, work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, "No, no, he found it. Its owner is unknown. I beg that you will was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off "Yes, at the mines." when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself first, and we can have some lunch on the way. I observe that connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads "What are they?" wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of me seemed to come uppermost. He was urging his son to marry my said he. "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking "No, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" he unlocked. Within was a small, square room, in which the three and laid it on the table. and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until "You will not go there first?" Sign of Four, and the extraordinary circumstances connected with Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the might have a private word with us. 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what