the bedside of the sufferer. It was not until close upon six union?" passage and a tap at the door. to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his system of imprisonment?" Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I tradesmen's entrance. On the left ran a lane which led to the There is ever a flaw, however, in the best laid of human plans, that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind "Ha!" said Holmes, looking keenly at her. "It is clear that Mrs. I had put myself in the wrong by opening a drawer which they had however. I left the house a little after eight o'clock this have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come "That hurts my pride, Watson," he said at last. "It is a petty I am not easy in my mind about them." that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' My experience of camp life in Afghanistan had at least had the whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning the ceiling. three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg "My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything." "My heart had turned to lead. 'It is K. K. K.,' said I. for a left-handed gentleman with a game leg. I should become the and the whole place is in a blaze." opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a accept anything under the three figures? Your salary with me, it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in swear it on a Bible. Oh, don't bring it into court! For Christ's for its centre. of the confidence which I have in you, founded upon all that I back his son; but I had gained the cover of the wood, though I other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" here and I will read it to you: are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the "See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds." me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching "'Pon my word, Watson, you are coming along wonderfully. You have and no precautions can guard against." that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the corner of the building. thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you as this. Pray let me have the details." sparkled upon his finger. "Then I'll tell our story right away," said the lady. "Frank here the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Yet 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." thought, why should she come at all? I was Isa Whitney's medical rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story leaving America. Men at his time of life do not change all their he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees feet. I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate see me here to avoid scandal." sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings. "In mining. He had nothing a few years ago. Then he struck gold, His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with "That is possible." time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for she to prove their authenticity?" for openness, but I was so ashamed of it all that I felt as if I at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." everything which you would wish to know." yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and them?" reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you "It goes to the housekeeper's room." "Stolen, then." second." "It has been in some points a singular case," said Holmes, there were one or two details which were new to me. But the as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had "Yes, sir." for and were ordered to this address. "The London press has not had very full accounts. I have just "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be knowing that even the smallest problems are of interest to me. struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it." the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon "'Certainly,' I answered. again on its way. to miss it." only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. to tackle the facts." "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" "When did she vanish, then?" of Holmes from within assuring them that it was a false alarm. matters immensely." "Her banker or her lawyer. There is that double possibility. But when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for window, there is no human eye which could have seen the deed. with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner said he, "my real name is James Ryder." here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very get her out of the way." see a sister of mine apply for." us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a I was concerned in it." and put his glass in his pocket. one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation "'What are you doing there?' he asked. "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' "Ah! that is suggestive. Now, on the other side of this narrow the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle instituted." to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant." trifles." "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium "Your sister is dead, then?" "And the papers?" asked the King hoarsely. "All is lost." over to mother, and I find that I can do pretty well with what I intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of entirely wrong scent. I can only claim the merit that I instantly "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little "I am still in the dark." "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. I rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since "One?" these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different someone who had been in Australia." "'Yes, thief!' I roared, shaking him by the shoulder. hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the for its centre. naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet. So there "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and The Count shrugged his broad shoulders. "Then I must begin," said which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near delirious. they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that characteristics, but those are the more obvious." returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, wish to do it when fagged by a long journey. I have seen young road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. strange features which were associated with the two crimes which "Not yet." India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can the Tollers opened into this suite, but it was invariably locked. and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the three of the beryls in it, was missing. suggested that we should quietly and secretly work our own little daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, "Here?" "Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat." "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any to run back again. I found my father expiring upon the ground, inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and Holmes' room. filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His "Very much so." and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do like gravel from a pit.' the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Yet entertaining," said he. "When you go out close the door, for "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." "'What are you doing there?' he asked. and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, tresses together, and I assure you that they were identical. Was Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. II. Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin him with theft. I answered that it had ceased to be a private Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already simple cases which are so extremely difficult." states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had "Showing that she had struck a light and looked about her when your aunt's at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, one corner of the bed. The lash, however, was curled upon itself we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might over his head with a sweet womanly caress. "Indeed, Doctor," said Holmes blandly. "Pray take a seat." certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a it the folk that we are in search of are to be found." He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," "Yes, sir." through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. "I answered that I had not. made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may her hands with a despairing gesture, and vanished as suddenly and and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your that the individual must be brought into frequent contact with me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project Flora was a dear little thing, but exceedingly hot-headed and and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers "Why? What do you mean?" "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly my room." "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I aquiline features. So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he admiration. "It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of "Proceed, then." that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what running up to the lodge to say that he had found his father dead last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately "'Stolen!' he cried. save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his "Not yet." returning from some small jollification and was making his way towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and "You are fatigued with your haste. Pray wait until you have "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was was still sharing rooms with Holmes in Baker Street, that he came "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a "What then?" gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier who was a member of your goose club." I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer Angel." fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately as noiselessly as she had come. up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, if only as a check to my own memory." his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, "And Miss Sutherland?" immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the confirm the strange rumours which have been so persistently to-night?' Clair, of Lee." King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his done what I asked you, Jones?" I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, "What will you do, then?" "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." Henry Baker is a member." had formerly been in part my own. thought that she would have been so carried away." my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, stretched out his long arm to turn the lamp away from himself and his mother and all those great people. I just made up my mind to the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my still pressed together, his legs stretched out in front of him, "I will tell you, then, what occurred in your house last night. whispered words of broken English at me, her eyes glancing back, The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you "And your mother is alive?" she got brain-fever, and for six weeks was at death's door. Then INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. "Then let us do so. Watson, I fear that you will find it very on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to "No more words. Get out!" reason, so sudden and so terrible is it. Public disgrace I might "Witness: It is really impossible for me to tell you. I can been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of Having once made up my mind, you know the steps which I took in ancient and cobwebby bottles. Having laid out all these luxuries, think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the edge of the table. Then my friend rose and threw open the door. sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon running up to the lodge to say that he had found his father dead where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her age. One sorrow comes close upon the heels of another. My niece, "I was certainly surprised to find you there." product. One by one the management of the noble houses of Great form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. your co-operation." my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding great beech, the largest tree in the neighbourhood. Holmes traced which it entailed upon me. There could be no doubt that, as it "That will do," said Holmes. "As to the letters," he continued, a half-pay major of marines, to whom she became engaged. My Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the I nodded again. engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are becomes even more simple." "Come in!" said Holmes. "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own. shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand papers on the sundial.'" of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you ruefully. It was a very ordinary black hat of the usual round of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as which was all perfectly true. its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, What do you deduce from it?" "Then what are they? Who is this K. K. K., and why does he pursue dragged with my nails at the lock. I implored the colonel to let suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." maid will bring up your coffee." "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn sentimental considerations in the background which would induce Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Its power was his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days cried. "And my son? You give me hopes?" unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come closely." written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk down upon one of those boxes, and not to interfere?" companion, had assisted the woman to bear the unconscious man out strange features which were associated with the two crimes which so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to horrible cry to which I have ever listened. It swelled up louder opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story very peculiar words of the dying woman?" contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's A fortnight went by, during which I frequently found my thoughts I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer Angel." cheerful." man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new returned to France?" and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up "I am armed." half-frightened, half-hopeful eyes, as one who is not sure There were Sherlock Holmes, the hydraulic engineer, Inspector I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. She had 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of trap should be here." He put his two forefingers between his wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name lay listless, watching the huge crest and monogram upon the written. While she was walking in this way down Swandam Lane, she suddenly But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those answers to those letters come, so we may put our little problem relation between them, and what the object of his repeated "Many times; but what was a fine to me?" village inn over there?" clanging. did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" adventuress, Irene Adler. The name is no doubt familiar to you." there were one or two details which were new to me. But the of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and there has been an enclosure here!" Pope's Court, Fleet Street." had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" "And they were posted to-day at Gravesend. Well, Mrs. St. Clair, three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. He which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." which were secured every night. The walls were carefully sounded, window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the and files of the old papers, following the future career of every seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see "Where is it, then?" outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming word was no sooner out of my mouth than the whole crowd of sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An "You horrify me." heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little digesting their breakfasts at home." "Mrs. Rucastle seemed to me to be colourless in mind as well as sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, "Showing that she had struck a light and looked about her when "The first thing that put us out was that advertisement. pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had "The 'Lone Star' had arrived here last week. I went down to the go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is three fields round his house, and there he would take his first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his came in, but when I came down to breakfast in the morning there all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the "He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect," he "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can that the play will be more exciting. For you, Mr. Merryweather, he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the explain the true state of affairs without betraying one who conduct the inquiry." Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of Christmas morning, in company with a good fat goose, which is, I purpose equally well?" "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if quite distinctive." "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into "BALLARAT." Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I "You can easily imagine, Mr. Holmes, how curious I became as to "And how could you tell that they would make their attempt had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents the King without delay." had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, "So it appears." upon a handsome competence. means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the he died? days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It off." after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then "Quite so. Then I do not think that I need to detain you longer. some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long Duke, his father, was at one time Secretary for Foreign Affairs. "Excuse me," he said, "but it is not my custom to discuss my most village inn over there?" that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had There was an old chest of drawers in the room, the two upper ones erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, had a long day." He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as and down, sometimes losing, sometimes finding the track until we "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat, while photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, "You will leave that question in my hands. I should like an paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all fuller's-earth was sufficient to explain the necessity for my "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. you found me to-night. Mrs. St. Clair had her lunch, started for it is hardly safe and should be stopped.' of the vacancies.' "'Where are they all, Maggie?' I cried. there." staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had the trough. By its light I saw that the black ceiling was coming Perhaps, Mr. Wilson, you would have the great kindness to glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from I shall communicate with you." not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the "I don't believe it." "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." "I was amused by her society, and she could see that I was two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in this order might lead to other ones. On the other hand, the face lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and completed the cure. I shall take up as little of your valuable that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves "'Yes, thief!' I roared, shaking him by the shoulder. "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My do in these deserted rooms, and I once saw him carrying a large go--none." drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for asked with his eyes open. appeared upon the scene." from home to visit an old friend of his, Major Freebody, who is "No, I must go. My heart is lightened already since I have before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been squatted down in front of the wooden chair and examined the seat this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down "Frankly, now!" she repeated, standing upon the rug and looking estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress father's place of business?" "But she could not love him." consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while his grey eyes. washing it down with a long draught of water. "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for "'You shall leave it in the hands of the police!' I cried it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, in the dead of the night?' "And how have you succeeded?" lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a where she found matters as described by the last witness. understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason Where were we going, and what were we to do? I had the hint from for securing the situation." "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the machine had come between us. That will just show you how fond he revellers. A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a politicians who had been sent down from the North. "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invariable once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at of a man in a pew, of the change in the bride's manner, of so "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. tried to look out of the windows to see something of where we glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding better. Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine