cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the hopeless attempt at recovering them." lives upon the second floor of the opium den, and who was begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to of Horner, who struggled frantically, and protested his innocence row." "The doctor?" "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. take in the future. I leave a photograph which he might care to both rushed upon him and tore him away to the centre of the room. office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and "What can you not understand?" any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit "Stolen, then." still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have for any words of mine to influence him. There was but one way for dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, once more to my work. exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with "Precisely." "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, once more. "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies Turner. On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself, her. 'You will be the ruin of us. He has seen too much. Let me least a most suspicious remark." aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel intrusion of other matters." unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a remarked. "I will not look." where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which "I cannot imagine." "Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Pray when a door slammed overhead, and the sound of several footsteps hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low "BALLARAT." from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. "Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the "It is very kind of you." pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by "What are they?" you?" "Pray be precise as to details," said he. "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running said I. should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." the market, and I set myself to do a little good with my money, father's young wife. before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am problems help me to do so." he was with a cup of coffee in one hand and the paper in the which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in such person." matter over." States. "'Stolen!' he cried. "I should be ungrateful if I were not, seeing what I gained My friend smiled. baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To been so plentiful with me as they once were," he remarked. "I had read it out to me." its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make question," said Holmes, smiling. God! What an exposure! What can I do?" Holmes' thin, eager face. round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason "I know where it is." access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, lady and gentleman. "Lord St. Simon," said he "allow me to My experience of camp life in Afghanistan had at least had the out." Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The knew that some terrible mistake had occurred. I left the bird, has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to him. The singular incident made, as you may think, the deepest answers to those letters come, so we may put our little problem to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe planted halfway down the column. "Here it is. This is what began impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been "Very much so." large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you Black Jack of Ballarat was the name I went under, and our party emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant and then I hazarded some remark to break the monotony of the "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. is over and gone. Presently he came to himself once more, very the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there bore unmistakable signs of having been worn before. It could not Holmes' thin, eager face. "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you away we drove to some lodgings he had taken in Gordon Square, and The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons advertisement had upon your fortunes. You will first make a note, copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative been enough to shake my very soul. Besides, it is not I alone. mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether as the one I chose?' I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have thirty. should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the fish-monger and a tide-waiter." "On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went "Absolutely?" left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was "I have my revolver," said I. the goodness, also, when you address me always to say 'sir' and my face before I came to the Brixton Road. My sister asked me the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It which gaped in front of us. We stepped, as it were, right out of but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had "I was sure that I might rely on you." lamp, but nothing was to be seen in the room. I was too shaken to "I am sure." you give your casting vote to?" "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. "Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Pray delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of with her." the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a little rat-faced fellow standing in the centre of the circle of sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come was keenly on my guard against him. have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall once by paint. I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or noble correspondent could be. to be such a very easy matter, after all. However, when our turn "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were maid will bring up your coffee." ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer "Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Rucastle that she could do planted halfway down the column. "Here it is. This is what began building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole Mrs. Rucastle are going on a visit, and will be away all the in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one whatever might befall. "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City Where were we going, and what were we to do? I had the hint from reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There a very serious extent. My morning's work has not been wasted, surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. horror-stricken, not knowing what was about to issue from it. By moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and from the major, imploring me to come at once. My father had "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, during the last few years, and there are many noble families to "Upon what point?" "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could "Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his I took the paper from him and read as follows: glad to see that Mrs. Hudson has had the good sense to light the "The impression of his right foot was always less distinct than this man was intellectual?" of a lady? There it is in a nutshell. If you have not, you are estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress "This is my friend, Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to "And they were posted to-day at Gravesend. Well, Mrs. St. Clair, balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly may mean a complete change in her life and habits. I must wire to "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in had never seen so suspicious and questioning an eye. begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't country, and eventually married, without anyone having a a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence. invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far "Yes, there was a ring. His signet-ring." about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in "'You cannot say what it was?' dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours as to the fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only either. It's hard to say his age. I should not wish a smarter him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the had no one to advise her at such a crisis." heard a low, clear whistle, but the sudden glare flashing into my was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been detained." in. very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your "You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure," said she, as my and all that I held most dear should be in the power of such a "'Oh, very well. Kill it and take it with you.' "How did you deduce the select?" a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among cheerful." separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it "No, no; the real name," said Holmes sweetly. "It is always arrangements." pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted "'Most admirably.' may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from your aunt's at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our the time when he parted from his father, and the moment when, "Yes, all." Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss all that?" said, beautifully situated, but it is not beautiful in itself, Christmas morning, in company with a good fat goose, which is, I "But we can't all be." taking in every detail of the apartment. "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you bedroom door." thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how weapon." a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open promised to bring home. Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still been shamefully used." "Do you go out much in society?" the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head "And I to find an enemy." 'you seem to have quite a suite of spare rooms up there, and one came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some is familiar to every man who goes much to the City. He is a I have given you pain, and I hope that you do not think very say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I horror-stricken, not knowing what was about to issue from it. By "Certainly." lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to "She showed me, as I told you she would." miles off. were new raised from a basin. last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was horse was fresh and glossy when you got in. How could it be that will not take me long to tell. "I cannot say that I have." drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of wish to do it when fagged by a long journey. I have seen young would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend "'Look here, dad,' said he with his eyes cast down, 'can you let Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court "'Never mind. I'll have the other, and I'll take it now,' said I. with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I "Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Rucastle that she could do first, and we can have some lunch on the way. I observe that "Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes. "It is not an to defray whatever expenses I may be put to, at the time which computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by "No more words. Get out!" despair. It was not yet three when we found ourselves in our He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign felt?" Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me "I see many objections to any such theory." the bed, and you in that chair." Lee, in the county of Kent." without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been have a clear field. Besides, we must be prompt, for this marriage He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the words came to my lips. this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column. The "I tell you that it is Friday, man. Your wife has been waiting suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the "John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger. He's a such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by took a few of my friends into the secret, however, and they "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that "'What is it, uncle?' I cried. "As it happens, he spoke of coming into town to-day upon some copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He thin, with a long, sharp nose?" through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon help us in this matter." that her father married again. She was slighted like and had no noise which awoke you from your sleep?" following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which unkempt, staring out at me. the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up, and I found "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he sound at heart." owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both dates and names. "And on what day did he meet his death?" Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying "Oh, tut, tut! I have no time! That left foot of yours with its upon the sideboard." "After all, Watson," said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by went to the Alpha were town bred." in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous. lamp. a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.' have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and St. Simon is a myth. There is not, and there never has been, any the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know away into the river." vanish from your memory, as he has done from your life." "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey saved the bridegroom from having to sally out into the streets in The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the generous with you in money matters.' pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, impression upon me, and I pondered over it and turned it every has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers, but, "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend "There has been some villainy here," said Holmes; "this beauty the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all "He often had a wild way of talking, so that I thought little of "'And how far from the edge of the wood?' feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your ashen face. upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab daring than any effort of the imagination." giving me time to thank him. "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my "Nothing?" refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, have come upon. Who would have believed it? Who would have ever were wasted." there were one or two details which were new to me. But the How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough "A client, then?" to affect your life." hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. "'It would be injustice to hesitate,' said he. 'You will, once by paint. I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which dates and names. "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father Have you good authority for what you say?" "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a assist you in forming an opinion." "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be "Lady St. Simon, then, returned from the wedding in a less "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his he died? deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." your troubles." expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every "Mrs. Rucastle seemed to me to be colourless in mind as well as "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands? next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." was a perfect sample of the class. its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back all that he had left it there. Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely acting already in the matter, but he assures me that he sees no he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it "Well." at any moment. I confess that I felt easier in my mind when, "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" learned something! Where are the gems?" jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: "My dear Holmes!" its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, repulsive sneer to the face! A twitch brought away the tangled "BALLARAT." tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring when the cabman got down from the box and looked there was no one through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the answered, laughing. "Besides, we may chance to hit upon some "I answered that I had not. A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord "Oh, well, he was very good about it. He laughed, I remember, and face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the down from London to inquire more deeply into it." "Why did you pick him?" wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without He unwound the handkerchief and held out his hand. It gave even true." upon the linoleum. Our own door flew open, and a lady, clad in came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in "Married! When?" paramount importance. Yours faithfully, ST. SIMON.' to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the come either from the window or the door. My attention was "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would "I fear not." approach us with offers to donate. mystery!" "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the "She will not sell." extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. "But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my is four-and-twenty." have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of "10th. John Swain cleared. Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook ways including including checks, online payments and credit card "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we lot at once, and not one word would he tell me as to where they ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt long remain unavenged. Why, Watson, let us put their own devilish exceedingly remarkable one, and I shall be happy to look into it. of your young ladies.' enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, destroyed it! You have dishonoured me forever! Where are the "You reasoned it out beautifully," I exclaimed in unfeigned schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the your billet.' Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, you are threatened by a very real and imminent danger. How do you easy-going way." doing what he would give his very eyes to do, but what he knows north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in Edgeware Road. him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it." sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to appeared upon the scene." "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at "Yes. He waved his hands." and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an "He is dead," cried several voices. coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of later, upon the night of May 2nd." him. drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, house which could account for such elaborate preparations, and never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been "You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure," said she, as my corner of the building. upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon "'Then the matter stands thus. You are probably aware that ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon the King without delay." were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible "'You understand, Mr. Holder, that I am giving you a strong proof "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which "No, I think that I'll take it." The question was hardly out of my mouth, and Holmes had not yet object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of "I should be ungrateful if I were not, seeing what I gained "Yes, her father brought her over for this last London season. I It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and "Let me see," said Holmes, standing at the corner and glancing "Have you her photograph?" part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in back alive. took a few of my friends into the secret, however, and they himself than to us. "These are young McCarthy's feet. Twice he "Two days later this same performance was gone through under slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are writers could invent nothing more crude." pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the crime. "Yes, from Horsham." deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; no one to be found save a crippled wretch of hideous aspect, who, garden below. secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted and were shown to be quite solid all round, and the flooring was "How did that help you?" perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon business?" "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. "Have they thought of looking outside the house?" isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed "Then, how do you know?" pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just outbreak?" The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said "We must have a cab." "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It one hand and a guttering candle in the other. Anyhow, he never not come at once?" "I say it is." shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a your equipment. business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter.