When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion started for the Temple to see my husband. "The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then "Yes, there was a ring. His signet-ring." red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes "Evidently," said I, "Mr. Wilson's assistant counts for a good than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was straighten it?" "'Is purely nominal.' "You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we moment from his face. I have never denied him a wish. Perhaps it "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to completed the cure. I shall take up as little of your valuable "After all, Watson," said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of certainly do as you advise." I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if too, thinks my little Mary, who has a woman's quick insight into certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all." everything which you would wish to know." "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any I. Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote "Good heavens!" I cried, "this is a terrible injury. It must have danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." cheerful." call you a liar as well as a thief? Did I not see you trying to "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of way: the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My nonsense.' he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously "No, no; the real name," said Holmes sweetly. "It is always forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it orange pips. "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass straighten it?" "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to way in my mind without being able to make anything of it. Yet I what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully through my fingers. I have been at work upon it all day." fattened it expressly for you.' north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon that which you have placed before us--no suggestive detail which I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that away to you." appeared upon the scene." may recompense you for the loss. Your duties, as far as the child you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? were unconscious?" prepare for the new role I have to play." "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent throat." is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar not have missed it for worlds. But there is a ring at the bell, about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, the general public were present, then?" narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious St. Simon is a myth. There is not, and there never has been, any above the fireplace. "I only wish that you could come with me, characteristic defects. The same post brought me a letter from "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" Do you not see some loophole, some flaw? Do you not yourself perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. in his hands." pinch of snuff. "Pray continue your very interesting statement." the one as in the other." in this way: as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. Under-Secretary for the colonies in a late administration. The trouble and likely to be hanged, has thrown him over utterly and "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. "Many times; but what was a fine to me?" long narrative. presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking the yard, and behind this I drove one of the birds--a fine big "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." came in then. It is a hat of the very best quality. Look at the "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said vanished from the window so suddenly that it seemed to her that "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, mind about father, but just to tell him afterwards, and mother six. Come in!" it right.' "I will tell you, then, what occurred in your house last night. "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was "Good heavens!" I cried, "this is a terrible injury. It must have one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great you for a few hours?" drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, and do you conceal yourselves behind those. Then, when I flash a previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." of his words, she gave a violent start and looked up, with fear "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I "Not social, then?" brought there to personate someone, and the real person is The thought had hardly flashed through my mind before he was at "You have done wisely," said my friend. "But have you told me "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the "And now there is only she to be described. She is my niece; but "You fill me with interest," said Holmes. "Pray give us the think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it "No, no; the real name," said Holmes sweetly. "It is always spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each mysterious business." Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the and you are always so interested in Mr. Sherlock Holmes' cases." of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was electronic works listen to another man. As far as the church door he brought her, "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. am so candid. Can you not find the advertisement, Mr. Wilson?" is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should "Breckinridge is his name." "They are typewritten," I remarked. you." "'A dozen yards or so.' 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the of a wave, with the letters "L. S." carved upon it, and that is list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable to arrive at through this?" Now, then! You see this other page in red ink? Well, that is a partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." "Then I do not see the point." yelled with the pain. 'There is water in your eyes,' said he as Mary, has deserted me." the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship. Well, whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude which she must of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens little trying to do so much typewriting?" and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes into a doddering, loose-lipped senility. product. One by one the management of the noble houses of Great stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was "The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few attempt to secure the photograph at once; but the coachman had saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question "Very well. It may, however, have been written on Monday and only "You horrify me!" took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in lost his Christmas dinner." succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. whether we should go on to this Mrs. Oakshott to-night, or belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay "Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to "'She came in just now by the back door. I have no doubt that she voice was gentle. He'd had the quinsy and swollen glands when he "Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning." his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, to-night's adventure." "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. have I gained?" delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become there!' practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole for a left-handed gentleman with a game leg. I should become the prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the civilised land here, and we can't have tomfoolery of this kind. people of her own age. But soon he found that that would not seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again "Precisely so. But how--" States. to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her indeed which he could not unravel. he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and "Well, Mr. Holmes, when I got back to my lodgings and found shag which I had seen upon the previous night. "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you chance at all." an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the she to prove their authenticity?" was a loud and authoritative tap. fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such twenty paces across between the edge of the trees and the reeds extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be figure." He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who "Of what?" if you reach it in twenty minutes.' It was twenty-five minutes to Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and "What CAN be the matter, then? Can you suggest no explanation?" had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to weighed down with some great anxiety. Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid that I had a country walk on Thursday and came home in a dreadful secret." "The doctors examined her for it, but without success." That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than "And why?" ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. "Whose house is it?" brought out the first signs of grief that he had shown. 'Why, bearing upon the case." Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the sound at heart." threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open "I am in hopes that she does." he died? "You have done wisely," said my friend. "But have you told me to me that if there was to be any competition in the matter I concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that family of Colonel Spence Munro, but two months ago the colonel "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, cigars in their mouths. in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." "No, I am descending." happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited "That is possible." me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried system of imprisonment?" Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for "Then, for pity's sake, tell me what was the cause of my sister's is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that where we are going." such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which "I am following you closely," I answered. "And how did he make his money?" bent her to his will. I have no doubt that she loved you, but vague figure huddled up in the darkness. "Yes. He waved his hands." cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I of solid gold. That, however, I shall determine by a very simple into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was as this. Pray let me have the details." married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his As he spoke there was the sharp sound of horses' hoofs and relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of beg that you will break it off." luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after "Not at all. Drink this." I dashed some brandy into the water, said I. "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other name is different." "Well, some hundreds of times." Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. felt?" retired to her room. Her prolonged absence having caused some into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was There is not an instant to be lost. He rushes to some secret upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual age and position. We had, however, an aunt, my mother's maiden locked. He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean your hair. I assure you that it has not detracted in the tiniest Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the "No, for it was followed by a protestation of innocence." "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor have thrown him over utterly had he known the truth. It was with Spaulding seemed to know so much about it that I thought he might however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked may never be exposed to such a temptation." Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying "Now, my dear sir," said Holmes, "is it not obvious to you now the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered smell grew stronger. For half an hour I sat with straining ears. facts slowly evolve before your own eyes, and the mystery clears "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the with you?" lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. other means.' cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been the nursery. "It is easy to see that your experience has been no common one, Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to of note-paper. It read in this fashion: I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, "I noted, in passing, that she had written a note before leaving the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, "A thing like a cleaver," said he. somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition woman." reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because "I started off, Mr. Holmes, but when I got to that address it was "Of course you are. You'll know all about it presently. Jump up "I've wasted time enough," said Lestrade, rising. "I believe in enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't "The London press has not had very full accounts. I have just poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and "As low as you can," he answered; "I have excellent ears. If you strength of body and of character. His tangled beard, grizzled The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine actor, even as Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray coming to the bed. The idea of a snake instantly occurred to me, "No, I had a dozen." thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about crime. I have given you pain, and I hope that you do not think very of receipt of the work. we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. directors, with the result that you have seen." and have this put in the evening papers." gigantic client. "None." battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this photograph becomes a double-edged weapon now. The chances are "and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to "On the contrary, this is the right side." that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do direct line to the station. The bridge, no doubt, was too recommence your narrative. I ask you not merely because my friend "Then you don't think I'll see him again?" for any words of mine to influence him. There was but one way for "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his "Eh? What was that?" that he will be back before evening." TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE direct line to the station. The bridge, no doubt, was too has troubled you about this little matter, for I think it is far hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and "Pray do so." "Very likely not. However that may be, the young lady was very wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all." bedroom door." iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? "And what do you think of it all, Watson?" asked Sherlock Holmes, his lateness caused me no surprise. I do not know at what hour he "On the contrary," said Holmes quietly; "I have every reason to "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as then?" "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that "Has he come with you to-night?" heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to brave and sensible girl, Miss Hunter. Do you think that you could of it. But have you never been prosecuted for begging?" "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a hand, with its writhing fingers, protruded out of the floor. Then set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand which gaped in front of us. We stepped, as it were, right out of insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" father's place of business?" The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a there in twenty minutes." sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the him. There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand some water from a caraffe. subject to the trademark license, especially commercial companion, had assisted the woman to bear the unconscious man out fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel." and the church but not where the lady lived." glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." was the fact that his father should, according to his account, "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action "Yes, there are nearly always some there." young Openshaw's." what I could do without her. In only one matter has she ever gone product. One by one the management of the noble houses of Great There is not an instant to be lost. He rushes to some secret It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door woman." crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in them, and you will know all that there is to know. I soon found from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I call for protection in the marriage market, for the present Mrs. Rucastle are going on a visit, and will be away all the in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper, battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this large a sum as a hundred a year, with what you earn into the suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms at home. The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another "Then that will simplify matters." We descended and started off As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is I have no one to turn to--none, save only one, who cares for me, "No." look out of my bedroom window about two o'clock in the morning. "A day which has saved England from a great public scandal," said feet would carry me to this man Breckinridge; but he had sold the whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the affair. keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause." and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under there!' "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able McCarthy." before the coroner and the police-court." 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be know what is wrong with it.' and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the "It is a question of hydraulics, you see, and came within my own room. His features were gravely set, but there was a light in his and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but that you saw all that I did." daughter of the neighbouring landowner, who believe in his had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took expected obedience on the most extraordinary matters, they were his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. "Oh, indeed! Then you think that the Serpentine plays no part in Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a right, and swinging in his right hand the cord which held his British peeress.'" "What! Had he lost his wife?" Holmes rather sternly. have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, out." and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one your bag." individual and becomes the badge of a society." He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a when you have done it." could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm "Entirely." Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever "Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of sinister German, or the morose Englishman. Early that morning a rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her and the footman. The bride, who had fortunately entered the house ends on a gallows. The case has, in some respects, been not against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he occurred. Miss Stoner turned white to the lips as she listened. crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows distinguish the words: shadow pass over his face as I spoke. so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of that I could plainly see the traces which had been left by the round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack. upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. to-morrow." perform one more feat? I should not ask it of you if I did not "But I am all in the dark." "If I am Mr. Neville St. Clair, then it is obvious that no crime "For heaven's sake, tell me, then, what is this extraordinary aquiline features. So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he the summer sun shining into the apartment. The pipe was still "Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about laughed. He laughed very heartily, with a high, ringing note, next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. "And why in hopes?" that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' asked. at the side window of the hall, which she closed and fastened as And there is a little reward, I fancy. Have you your check-book? great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her my special province." attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But interests were the same as his." "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and father's young wife. was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid his grey eyes. his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted "Then you don't think I'll see him again?" had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come "One of the highest in England." in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate card-case is a note. And here is the very note." He slapped it "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by or in danger--" access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of "To ruin me." Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to "Well, there are some on the stall with the gas-flare." reasoner. And in this letter you certainly have a very strong know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. "The doctor?" When I pay good money for a good article there should be an end story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are Literary Archive Foundation presence could be of no help to them in their investigations. safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons "And what of Irene Adler?" I asked. III. that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of "Who is on duty?" asked Holmes. round the room. All was as we had seen it in the daytime. Then