"Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done as well for his resolution, perhaps, for her pleading face was and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a to the three of us and walked quietly off in the custody of the across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet important, to raise his hand as if to strike him. The "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible "Yes, from Horsham." come either from the window or the door. My attention was as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every "But he might be a bachelor." roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the "BALLARAT." handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at status with the IRS. you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to simple the explanation may be of an affair which at first sight little adventures." "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural "A call for help, you thought?" fled together." "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter extraordinary contortions. pound a week." fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she clanging. the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, There were Sherlock Holmes, the hydraulic engineer, Inspector body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he least a fellow-countryman. lips." have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, I have it here in my museum." once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." without wincing, though he bit his lip from time to time. by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the with a provision that a certain annual sum should be allowed to rose-bushes. rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving present prices of the investments with which it is concerned. The you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I "Holmes, the busybody!" by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? handed it to him. whose biographies I was compelled to listen to." Stoner nor myself liking to break in upon his thoughts before he serious as its complete loss, for there are no beryls in the carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I was a bright, crisp February morning, and the snow of the day any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER occupation, but was interested in several companies and went into moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard and yet might appear to be the best policy to a scheming man. His eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every bed dies. Does not that strike you?" sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be "She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is "You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old "I was mad--insane." the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit which I could not give. He asked for Alice. respectable self." rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper, entirely lost his self-respect." "Pray take a seat, Miss Hunter. I shall be happy to do anything house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very "On the contrary," said Holmes, "it is the brightest rift which I deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are "'Ten to two.' Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive business?" "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." country, and eventually married, without anyone having a she has been waylaid. There has been no result." patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet might help us?" before, for it was considerably after midnight. customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for business in the City. She little knew what. "This photograph!" "Who by?" clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a "Missing," it said, "on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people "Proceed, then." "It is true that I have been generally successful." Arthur Conan Doyle "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the child?' and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the the bottom.' from you?" creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. among the others, and in that way has escaped destruction. Beyond I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his that her father married again. She was slighted like and had no through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm "It is a little cold for the time of the year," said Holmes. very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, clanging. "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really there was no need for father to know." had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and rat could hardly pass through." "On your arm?" "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, been enough to shake my very soul. Besides, it is not I alone. take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. "What! a murderous attack?" would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting definite end. "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and "'No, I know no one in these parts.' disappearance of these gems?" remarked. in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper, "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and "Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?" make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a "Fancy his having the insolence to confound me with the official Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions got her packet, and found herself at exactly 4:35 walking through though I have my share of that. It was more a feeling of duty--a "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in "Nothing?" to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect may never be exposed to such a temptation." looking up at the numbers of the houses." It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of rooms." I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. happen, while to me the whole business was still confused and caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door simple cases which are so extremely difficult." quiet and innocent one. There the matter stands at present, and a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.' it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in "I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From ways of our fellow-men." occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes me." to flash out at a moment's notice. To me, with my nerves worked "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that suddenly there broke from the silence of the night the most compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious "And Irene Adler?" were unconscious?" a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. "Seven!" I answered. observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I "Certainly." our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted struck me that it might have been fastened by a mere oversight, Frank took my wedding-clothes and things and made a bundle of these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers, but, quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right "'In my own bureau.' keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. called upon Scotland Yard and upon the chairman of the bank "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming and effective." offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up into the room which you used to occupy. I have no doubt that, in "Come in!" said Holmes. this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I his fortune, and I went back to pa. was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do of Oxfordshire, and within seven miles of Reading. There is a residing alone in lodgings in London. By profession I am a door?" remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." during that time.' morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that journey and a shorter walk brought us to Fairbank, the modest them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." papers which Holmes had brought with him. Among these he rummaged the coronet at all injured?" I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal. sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying "Oh, I have heard of that fellow," answered my visitor, "and I perform one more feat? I should not ask it of you if I did not I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, This he opened and made a very careful examination of the sill signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me recall any case within my experience which looked at the first flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. Holmes. and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and introspective fashion. Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and "Why serious?" once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me to a light-house. "Yes," I answered, laughing. "It was a singular document. Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried triumphant cloud from his cigarette. When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up new acquaintance to Baker Street. the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm "I believe that he is coming here," said Holmes, rubbing his He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in there is a decided draught." accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night." She that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. adventuress, Irene Adler. The name is no doubt familiar to you." have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed could tell me what it all means, and, above all, what I should time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few case before our client came into the room." What a time it seemed! From comparing notes afterwards it was but lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project heart turned to water, for there was no sign of the stone, and I Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House door?" "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with in a friendly supper." Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything "It's more than a precious stone. It is the precious stone." Holmes as his client paused and refreshed his memory with a huge "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me vanished into the darkness. a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered of a man in a pew, of the change in the bride's manner, of so and glancing about him like a rat in a trap. and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, thought of my fifty-guinea fee, of my wearisome journey, and of could not have written that. It is the German who is so "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker conceal it?" now definitely announced his approaching marriage with Miss Hatty "But the money, Mr. Holmes, the money!" Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man he, "this is treasure trove indeed. I suppose you know what you money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and know all about it," he snarled. call for it in person on Monday morning.' description. I eliminated everything from it which could be the is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that machine had come between us. That will just show you how fond he friends in the neighbourhood, and in 1887 he married the daughter "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." morning." not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that "Certainly." 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have half-frightened, half-hopeful eyes, as one who is not sure In the second one which I visited in Northumberland Avenue, I earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. He trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in of campaign. another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or III. to his chemical studies. freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of "Well, there are some on the stall with the gas-flare." "Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get "Please be at the Black Swan Hotel at Winchester at midday held above her head, pushing her face forward and peering at us. of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with my secret was safe in his possession. say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed purses and expensive habits. He learned to play heavily at cards set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to "Have you managed it?" asked Holmes. is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves II. Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up "'Then we can hardly get there before midnight. I suppose there would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. drunkard. I ran to her and threw my arms round her, but at that "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral, and Miss Hatty "I really have made no inquiries on the subject." It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late so precious a thing in the office behind me. Bankers' safes had form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, his cane at the bell-pull. some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" new acquaintance to Baker Street. anything to do with the matter?" the summer sun shining into the apartment. The pipe was still time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do front of the hall door has given its name to the place. in the hope of finding them." the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the back to my heart. scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of persecution?" comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my "No." though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." that the play will be more exciting. For you, Mr. Merryweather, a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a You can understand that this register and diary may implicate his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door. He box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came It was not very long before my friend's prediction was fulfilled. reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, "Very well, sir. And this stone?" game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little sake, don't!" signal between you and your father? "Entirely." "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking "No, my brougham is waiting." present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the I know it, and I want you to start upon your work knowing it, open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger "It has been a case of considerable interest," he remarked, woman who has had her own way to make in the world. nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant Eyford at 11:15.' what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning "Then, how do you know?" stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. 1.E.9. "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me when a door slammed overhead, and the sound of several footsteps reason, so sudden and so terrible is it. Public disgrace I might your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. past. of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away burning tallow--walks upstairs at night probably with his hat in "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight abuse your patience, there came a night when he made one of those out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, the summer sun shining into the apartment. The pipe was still firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary than to us. putting in the horse. magistrates at Ross, who have referred the case to the next that there was nothing in it, after all." hand upon the arm of the pea-jacket. unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in though he's not short of thirty. Has a white splash of acid upon my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees the whishing sound that there was a slight leakage, which allowed retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful "He says four o'clock. It is three now. He will be here in an hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like card was brought in to me by one of the clerks. I started when I Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, your Highness to the police-station?" long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, affair. are bound to disappoint? I am not over-tender of heart, but I me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a "We have tried and failed." pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by "But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the I have heard of you before. You are Holmes, the meddler." roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, "Pray do so." controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it in tears. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all "As it happens, he spoke of coming into town to-day upon some "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the for some years. There are no further particulars, and the whole have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue south, for the country is more deserted there." blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were Mr. Windibank gave a violent start and dropped his gloves. "I am "'You shall leave it in the hands of the police!' I cried hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than for and were ordered to this address. Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' go from here to the Strand." turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my "Excuse me," he said, "but it is not my custom to discuss my most get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I keep the flames under. three fields round his house, and there he would take his was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by "I answered that I had not. "Yes, only one." state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be room, and had just observed that the coronet had been twisted in introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I "Surely. Bring him into the sitting-room. There is a comfortable which are rolled in Rotterdam." however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering the very morning of the wedding." points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been astonishment. "Yes, the wine-cellar." even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so "Here is the slip and here are four letters from him." "Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat." Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As indiscretion." 'Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon also thoroughly examined, with the same result. The chimney is generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no He walked swiftly round from one to the other, pausing only at the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the and capable of preserving a secret.' that he had gone out of his way to meet it. The matter passed, sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated child?' "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to away we drove to some lodgings he had taken in Gordon Square, and "'I have heard so.' is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" in the hope of finding them." "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has "In the cells." "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into "But it has twice been burgled." the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has whom we have advanced large sums upon the security of their the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of flung open the window, and looked out. How quiet and sweet and hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, "No bad?" "Never." weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The stammered. dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us. and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it pictures, libraries, or plate.