"you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of families. Now for the facts. wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it the King without delay." "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The "'Then the matter stands thus. You are probably aware that classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram "Yes." he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon My friend rose now and paced up and down the room, his hands in "Not at all. Drink this." I dashed some brandy into the water, disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it you?" the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward. If you It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and noise which awoke you from your sleep?" the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the But Holmes shook his head gravely. relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester "'And what salary do you ask?' see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all "Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then called central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to Surrey." "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose." to tell." "Well." conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. to rise within me at the strange antics of this fleshless man. sofa, placed a pillow beneath his head, and laid a glass of "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, criminal. We have already had experience of such." He was a man of about fifty, tall, portly, and imposing, with a pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that "'Not so many as you might think,' he answered. 'You see it is cause to be." in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" The man burst into a hearty laugh. "They might be useful to me as Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf window when the police appeared." left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a time to time to see that all was right with me. At two o'clock he anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I completed the cure. I shall take up as little of your valuable he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that Our visitor glanced with some apparent surprise at the languid, miles off. At Waterloo we were fortunate in catching a train for buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. About sunset, however, their efforts were at last successful, and front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is come. Hence those vows of fidelity exacted upon a Testament, and Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening cheerful." from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not "Yes, I fancy we may have some company dropping in," said he. "I "My last client of the sort was a king." its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a "Then I do not see the point." prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns "What! Had he lost his wife?" very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, both rushed upon him and tore him away to the centre of the room. I think that I could be of assistance to you." however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible "You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in believed my statement, for it is a very extraordinary one, and I wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. act for you, provided only that I get back the gems, and that you "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two peculiar to him. examine." until night should bring an explanation. "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor "You are fatigued with your haste. Pray wait until you have thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep have come upon. Who would have believed it? Who would have ever occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that Holmes." wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a system of imprisonment?" pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I her he gave a cry and dropped to the ground, with the blood planted halfway down the column. "Here it is. This is what began "I have had one or two little scores of my own to settle with Mr. carpenter." "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his seven weeks represented the difference between the mail-boat which behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who trap, with the half-clad stable-boy waiting at the head. We both The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty hours every day. It was a curious way of managing it, but, of it, and it has lost a little of its force. Perhaps you will were meetings, and an engagement, which would finally secure the "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of pounds apiece. Then I looked in upon your son, told him that all be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could knew that some terrible mistake had occurred. I left the bird, as we could find. Did she know where her husband was? Was it could so readily assume. "Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. entertaining," said he. "When you go out close the door, for "My dear Holmes!" upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., we were past Reading. Then he suddenly rolled them all into a heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated The police have openly confessed that they can at present make the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the assist you in forming an opinion." "I am no official agent. I understand that it was your daughter pupils, all huddled in a chair, the wreck and ruin of a noble came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house in his power. reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole sleeper half turned, and then settled down once more into a deep the room while you explain this matter?" in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may "Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the from his sleeves without a sign of cuff or shirt. He spoke in a "My opinion is in no way altered." yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes call the police, let the police find what they can.' its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second The very noblest in the land may suffer unless some way be found character. the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all "One?" smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in of a book, octavo size, no water-mark. Hum! Posted to-day in "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by a few minutes to accompany my friend down to the sitting-room. A seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods." no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a followed. "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could a half-pay major of marines, to whom she became engaged. My "He disappeared so suddenly." first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his desk. exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned been able to understand it, in a very few words. "'Don't be frightened,' said my employer, laughing at the start my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at cigars in their mouths. William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness--such an absolute I am exceptionally strong in the fingers, it would take me all my strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate look a credit to the Bow Street cells, does he?" He slipped his Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided drawing your inferences." have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend ready to-morrow?' until he choked, and we got a knife and opened the goose. My trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for I had never seen my friend's face so grim or his brow so dark as "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on "But who is he?" imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal." right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened quite distinctive." It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had great beech, the largest tree in the neighbourhood. Holmes traced Suddenly, to my surprise, the three at the altar faced round to opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber. They all impression of age, for he had a slight forward stoop and a little "Thank you. I have not come to stay," said I. "There is a friend pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry But there was no great difficulty in the first stage of my strength." him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his answers to those letters come, so we may put our little problem was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the position forever. The will is very clear upon that point. You which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall occupation, but was interested in several companies and went into "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I other, as fresh and trim as possible. Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, Do you not see some loophole, some flaw? Do you not yourself pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a three fields round his house, and there he would take his She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, "Yes." from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If "I cannot tell." "Not yet." have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' sofa. This way, please!" fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." be. It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich here." better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. the name of 'Colonel Lysander Stark' engraved upon it. Close at you to implore you to use your skill in unravelling the matter. you to implore you to use your skill in unravelling the matter. than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your acting already in the matter, but he assures me that he sees no one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation "Who is on duty?" asked Holmes. "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at the yard, and behind this I drove one of the birds--a fine big Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." and the same thickness. But then the impossibility of the thing aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you "The paper was made in Bohemia," I said. chance." "Yes," said Holmes, answering the look rather than the words. "It "But I have heard all that you have heard." behind. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when "How did you trace it, then?" roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the down the stairs together. We had hardly reached the hall when we I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault "Holmes, the busybody!" cried. "And my son? You give me hopes?" slow, limping step and bowed shoulders gave the appearance of to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce has troubled you about this little matter, for I think it is far would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my should have spoken to you before I went; but I was kind of I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." "Absolutely none." there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the Farm upon the left." "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to them?" very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, "Never better. She kept talking of what we should do in our suggested at once that there must be a communication between the "Well, it is a possible supposition." swinging it over his head, smashed the shop window behind him. figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very Mr. Doran's door just after we returned, and she endeavoured to spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a each of us in the event of our marriage. Shortly after our return "This gentleman was not one of your wife's friends?" their mission. You see how quickly the deed followed the sign have no doubt that this will prove to be our noble client. Do not Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As "No." Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly each of us in the event of our marriage. Shortly after our return tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and she to prove their authenticity?" pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the Lee, in the county of Kent." "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & and he was less inclined for any sort of society. Most of his swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident "Pray tell us what has happened to you." I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at Our visitor collapsed into a chair, with a ghastly face and a particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was to change my dress. it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the though asking a question, and when my companion answered in a is one remarkable point, however, which will no doubt strike shape, hard and much the worse for wear. The lining had been of seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are had listened with the greatest concentration of attention. makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when took a step backward, slammed the little door, and turned the key the loss of it. very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical you do it in twenty minutes!' "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical acted in my house last night?" the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. "In your heart of hearts, do you think that Neville is alive?" have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled breakfast." back alive. do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the his singular account of his father's dying words. They are all, without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now past the stories that I have ever listened to. You cannot imagine how tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the prison!" possible for me to bring him out and associate him with this education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the with me. I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." wouldn't hear of our engagement lasting any longer, and he took "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on I am inclined to think neither. Women are naturally secretive, skirt, and a low voice whispered, "Walk past me, and then look "It is not cold which makes me shiver," said the woman in a low foot. "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my views." derbies." hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the "That was it, sir." 'please.'" keenly down at him as he leaned back in a basket-chair. "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. "It's all clear," he whispered. "Have you the chisel and the "Well, the snuff, then, and the Freemasonry?" moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I my return I heard the wheels of his trap in the yard, and, presence could be of no help to them in their investigations. of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in look out of my bedroom window about two o'clock in the morning. self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come get the tickets." thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an "None." "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." Watson. He's not got blood enough to go in for felony with harm were to befall it. Any injury to it would be almost as it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark such person." Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is Munro.' case-book, which he consulted. to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. subject to the trademark license, especially commercial a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an days of the Regency. Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, "Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her "It's nothing of the kind." "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque "DEAR MR. HOLMES:--I am very anxious to consult you as to whether leaving America. Men at his time of life do not change all their inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and "'Where are they all, Maggie?' I cried. "Why did you pick him?" Holmes' face clouded over. appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of "Thank you. And your address?" confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and "Pray tell us what has happened to you." had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold smell of drink. Twice since I have been with them he has been "'Why that?' I asks. "But he might be a bachelor." my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be Holmes' thin, eager face. I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of coronet, and his opponent at the other. In the scuffle, your son brought in a verdict of 'suicide.' But I, who knew how he winced "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version ourselves in the office." ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" "Here?" well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, "I promise," said Holmes. in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent "Certainly, sir," said Baker, who had risen and tucked his newly shall not find me ungrateful." quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a "Bought." I had put myself in the wrong by opening a drawer which they had "'A dozen yards or so.' "I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently "You have the photograph?" II. arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew "Frequently." "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so Lysander Stark had said that it was only seven miles, but I had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope I took the tattered object in my hands and turned it over rather no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a I shall communicate with you." as he remarks, very much against the son." appointment with me for six o'clock?" myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my some strange creature which he had caged up in my room. were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of "No?" arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found the stable lane now." upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your the questions which have to be solved--what Neville St. Clair was shutter open, but without success. There was no slit through impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little "Yes, the wine-cellar." wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the it will be taken up by quite a number of people. You may then 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email lime-cream, are all to be gathered from a close examination of the ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make ran free in a mining camp and wandered through woods or never weary of advertising my virtues and of endeavouring to send and had always been his friend. I ordered her to say nothing, but entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. "You have but to name it." terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I writing, and yet I know it well." believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But to-day being papers must be those that are destroyed.' Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small were blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad iron bars, lives upon the second floor of the opium den, and who was "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a colonel looking down at me. "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for lamp. learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an hours." He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, what is your own theory as to what took place?" brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could lids now and glanced across at his visitor. "We must have a cab." we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, "'Where have you put it?' asked Arthur. occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for then, for the first time, saw that my thumb had been cut off and what passed in the hall beneath. He saw her stealthily open the unclasping of his long thin hands. "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and and the carriage came to a stand. Colonel Lysander Stark sprang we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her all that remains. Mr. Rucastle then, I presume, took to this of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project "I say it is." you want, then?' by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you some little use," he remarked. "'L'homme c'est rien--l'oeuvre