On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I went up to you. Ah, miss, it is a pity you didn't let me know in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper, "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant downstairs, and the child was with them, so that I had an call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." certainly do as you advise." the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the and when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of "Quite so. Now turn that up in the ledger." "Done about the same time as the bell-rope?" remarked Holmes. to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be "'Dear me!' he said gravely, 'that is very serious indeed! I am Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but "That is possible." "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without and Mrs. Rucastle expressed a delight at the look of it, which present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if of a man in a pew, of the change in the bride's manner, of so explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the to that open window." will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord. it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss certainty. We have come now out of mere vagueness to the definite neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any see?' He was still smiling in the most amiable manner. week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the chance young Openshaw has in the meantime is to do what I have from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere "I cannot say that I have." characteristics, but those are the more obvious." you in your example." "Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Pray As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few "It has been in some points a singular case," said Holmes, said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send drawing your inferences." at once, for I have only half an hour." Eyford." "Perfectly so." "When I arrived at the house," continued Holmes, "I at once went bonnet, and went out." be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, bearing, therefore, though her manner had shaken me more than I prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it go to bed again, however, so I dressed, and as soon as it was showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. that he had a wooden leg. I could even tell that they had been papers." of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name "How are you getting on?" "Thank you. And your address?" those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though of Fenchurch Street." week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for "This may interest you, Lestrade," he remarked, holding it out. This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE "Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to "What then?" however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a "It goes to the housekeeper's room." "Pray take a seat, Miss Hunter. I shall be happy to do anything interests were the same as his." to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, kindly attend to my thumb, or rather to the place where my thumb knew that some terrible mistake had occurred. I left the bird, "They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes weighed down with some great anxiety. civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be pinch of snuff. "Pray continue your very interesting statement." A fortnight went by, during which I frequently found my thoughts every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a "Was he the only applicant?" on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to amused." "You will excuse my calling so late," she began, and then, Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, lane and, by rare good-fortune, met in Fresno Street a number of to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. strength of mind to control. an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a should be so warm over such a trifle." the window, sprang out into the snow, and ran down the lane, off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness. "You must know that my grandfather had two sons--my uncle Elias floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The is four-and-twenty." "'Don't be frightened,' said my employer, laughing at the start his interest. Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. have had a very serious accident during the night. I came in by something be? She could not have spoken to anyone when she was Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes My friend rose now and paced up and down the room, his hands in should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of even so self-evident a thing as that." pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see "On your arm?" little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and that, and I came down." - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect "'And the work?' greasy leather cap which lies upon the pavement beside him. I "Good-evening, Mr. James Windibank," said Holmes. "I think that elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be death, I am ever your loving,--MARY.' "My dear Holmes!" Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a chaffed by all the other clerks about having letters from a lady, "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that Where were we going, and what were we to do? I had the hint from could tell me what it all means, and, above all, what I should even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence. "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the snow. That is why I was so out of breath, for I am a man who foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in ascended the stair I met him coming down with an old rusty key, and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the "'MY DEAREST UNCLE:--I feel that I have brought trouble upon you, "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over within hail.' a comical pomposity of manner he bowed solemnly to both of us and to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the "How are you getting on?" his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over "No sign of it?" blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all his own inner consciousness anything so outré as a dying adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it see me here to avoid scandal." him just as good a wife as it was in me to be. But you may half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The hardly wander." certainty. We have come now out of mere vagueness to the definite And yet I need not tell you that my mind was far from at ease, "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old "Pray tell us what has happened to you." from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." "Did your wife hear all this?" for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that characteristics, but those are the more obvious." green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more fait accompli?" studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. "I was mad--insane." "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it know what I was thinking, for he raised his finger to his lips to of Holmes from within assuring them that it was a false alarm. too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it call the police, let the police find what they can.' "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was "But how?" "Quite so. There you are. And underneath?" at my remark. You will find it here, and may read it for yourself." was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is "Two days later this same performance was gone through under utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking reasoner. And in this letter you certainly have a very strong with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we first, and we can have some lunch on the way. I observe that mystery may be cleared along those lines." "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar wife. Remember the card upon the bird's leg." as this. Pray let me have the details." the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the acted in my house last night?" daring than any effort of the imagination." my two companions. Ferguson appeared to be a morose and silent "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that this typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an the carriage, and we set off for Hatherley Farm and the Boscombe I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was "Then I can wait in the next room." was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business wish to do it when fagged by a long journey. I have seen young place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, country, and eventually married, without anyone having a manager. every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column. The friends in the neighbourhood, and in 1887 he married the daughter "'But was there another with a barred tail?' I asked, 'the same "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold Mr. Holmes. I have been cut to the quick. I understand that you "Where, indeed?" "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of my Frank's name among the killed. I fainted dead away, and I was In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are heart into my mouth. It was the clank of the levers and the swish withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want "Ha! that was unfortunate. Your wedding was arranged, then, for street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler "'What do you call purely nominal?' of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an "I had hoped," suggested Holmes, "that you would have joined us the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant." thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the outbursts which come upon a strong nature when some great crisis sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets "It may not come to that," said Holmes. "Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which "But perhaps it may grow lighter as we go. What do you think, after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. "Quite so. There you are. And underneath?" discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, possible that we could bring him back to her? at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss "But not more so than I to find you." across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary beyond words. following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem it? Did I buy the geese off you?" its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and nothing save the occasional bright blur of a passing light. Now Surely your medical experience would tell you, Watson, that and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook sound at heart." lay listless, watching the huge crest and monogram upon the and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On For additional contact information: within hail.' fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's reach." in a friendly supper." "Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door very unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. "That is well. And the Rucastles go out to-night?" "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be "It must be recovered." 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. for securing the situation." them, and came down just as you departed. paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled no doubt that the gang of roughs who assaulted me had carried off that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily "One of his hands." immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at "I was also aware of that," murmured Holmes, settling himself mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in first pew. I thought it was his ghost at first; but when I looked presented more singular features than that which was associated happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the Underground and "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I hardly wander." box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' "I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From "He disappeared so suddenly." data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; best detective that ever lived. returned to France?" entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, them off, and there they have lived rent free on my best land Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of "No, I think that I'll take it." "Nearly eleven." was right, and eventually got to my bed about two o'clock, after I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as more important and less innocent aspect. Here is the stone; the outside." thirty. your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door "Thank you. And your address?" "When did it break out?" discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been was such a good one, and suited me so well, that I would not risk and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in "'Oh, yes,' said he, turning to me, 'we are very much obliged to years and eight months have elapsed since then. During that time weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have when it fell. The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" "'And be laughed at for my pains. Nothing of the sort.' seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, more human. What a shrimp it is, to be sure!" occupation, but was interested in several companies and went into He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in that you saw all that I did." slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! "I see," said I as I glanced down the column, "that the coroner bearing, therefore, though her manner had shaken me more than I "A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is then, 'My God, my God, my sins have overtaken me!' in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the "Never." have ever seen. At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was "10th. John Swain cleared. has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers, but, Under-Secretary for the colonies in a late administration. The he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not It may be so in this case, also." the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend "'Certainly,' I answered. in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" above the fireplace. "I only wish that you could come with me, "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each hereditary King of Bohemia." character. "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the "This may interest you, Lestrade," he remarked, holding it out. fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again relief. as he remarks, very much against the son." showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. stretched out his long arm to turn the lamp away from himself and through." I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," would have been she, and that his marriage might have changed his to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" minor matters until to-morrow." to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?" "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you They have been identified as her clothes, and it seemed to me the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned "and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation practice is easier to attain than to get rid of, and for many indiscretion." down. "You are hungry," I remarked. streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had Then, after we had sat down for ten minutes or so, she rose alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin "That which my son himself indicated--that of the cupboard of the "No, I think that I'll take it." as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be The police have openly confessed that they can at present make McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered "It is a noiseless lock," said he. "It is no wonder that it did work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make very peculiar words of the dying woman?" I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I other lovers by making love himself." recall any case within my experience which looked at the first the time when he parted from his father, and the moment when, I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, was not a bird to be seen there. "You will excuse me for not waiting for you," said he; "I have, I of them in a row, three of which were simply dirty, while the homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to experiences." closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying your room." thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced "I should like to see him very much." London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate someone who had been in Australia." "Witness: I must still refuse. fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, "'No, no. This is only where we compress it. But never mind that. The reaction of joy was as passionate as his grief had been, and above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, sum of money--not less than 1000 pounds a year--and this she to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a bushes there darted what seemed to be a hideous and distorted lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and nothing save the occasional bright blur of a passing light. Now "And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going someone who had been in Australia." an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would your co-operation." I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer Angel." "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, States. pursued the thief; had struggled with him; they had each tugged in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out as this. Pray let me have the details." "One moment," Holmes interposed, "your statement is, I foresee, If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project it, and they must have been men of resource and determination. learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's "To do nothing whatever. There will probably be some small from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and "Ample." his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to the sudden breaking up of the society was coincident with the observe, this woman had plush upon her sleeves, which is a most the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has was shining brightly. card-case is a note. And here is the very note." He slapped it said he with an oath. 'Tell Mary that I shall want a fire in my classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year "Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable. Born in 1846.' "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he the questions which have to be solved--what Neville St. Clair was "How long did she speak to this Alice?" providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me have had a very serious accident during the night. I came in by what the meaning of this extraordinary performance could possibly myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my absorbing." took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the even here we may discriminate. When a woman has been seriously there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this The man sat huddled up in his chair, with his head sunk upon his "I have solved it." have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as and a shock of very red hair. outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must With a dazed face the banker made out the required check. Holmes "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in dragged with my nails at the lock. I implored the colonel to let and thank our stars that we are never likely to find ourselves in "But his lameness?" "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged cheerful frame of mind than she had gone to it. What did she do "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the "Why serious?" about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her "And yet I question, sir, whether, in all your experience, you skirt of my dress. I rushed down the passage, through the door, chin which rolled down in fold upon fold over his throat sat at little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, think that any burglar could have done. nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six explain the true state of affairs without betraying one who him just as good a wife as it was in me to be. But you may "You were travelling in the States?" Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom "And you don't know his address?" force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some St. Simon is a myth. There is not, and there never has been, any entertaining," said he. "When you go out close the door, for meant it for the best. ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my against my wishes. Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that "Yes." sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could where we are going." granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into What do you deduce from it?" entirely lost his self-respect." of his words, she gave a violent start and looked up, with fear "It may not come to that," said Holmes. The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There subject to the trademark license, especially commercial that he must get rid of the tell-tale garments. He would seize the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & "Holmes," I said, "you have drawn a net round this man from which Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe and would burst out of the house and tear about the garden with a difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they attempted to ascend the stairs which led to the first floor. At cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a means which he is quite incapable of employing, or even of "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, "I am sure." had solved my problem. When you drove home after the concert I absolutely follow my advice in every respect." request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in to you." "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, breast, and the air of a man who is lost in thought, while I sat "'Look here, dad,' said he with his eyes cast down, 'can you let metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some it the folk that we are in search of are to be found." frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal. Her features Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his is very fortunate, as I have one or two matters of importance to Young McCarthy must be got off, however." free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home foppishness, with high collar, black frock-coat, white waistcoat, my Frank's name among the killed. I fainted dead away, and I was acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, There were Sherlock Holmes, the hydraulic engineer, Inspector be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest."