"Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking see no less than five, I think that there can be little doubt "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! are windows in it, of course?" rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. strange features which were associated with the two crimes which at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything "Then you may be so with me." electronic works to flash out at a moment's notice. To me, with my nerves worked blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else "In which, sir?" than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular you in yours." on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was father's young wife. himself to tell his story. within hail.' hereditary King of Bohemia." that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was "What! Had he lost his wife?" than was visible to me." in this way: "That will do," said Holmes. "As to the letters," he continued, their singular warning or token before them when starting upon laughter, whenever he saw you, and afterwards from your gesture, had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more presented more singular features than that which was associated "No bad?" the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the the summer sun shining into the apartment. The pipe was still so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details that "You were travelling in the States?" "Yes, sir. He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the chance." hedge close by the highroad, and just a little lower down was a boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand "It certainly sounds feasible." "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice am surprised that Lord St. Simon has not already arrived. Ha! I "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the At Waterloo we were fortunate in catching a train for A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way right, and swinging in his right hand the cord which held his persecution?" in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" Arthur Conan Doyle to-night's adventure." bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go servant-maids--joined in a general shriek of "Fire!" Thick clouds again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I Again Holmes raved in the air. completed the cure. I shall take up as little of your valuable "Well, there are some on the stall with the gas-flare." reached it we heard the sound of running feet and the shouting of in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after Holmes laughed. "It is quite a pretty little problem," said he. phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project "I think that I heard a ring," said Holmes. "Yes, there are steps said he. Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: "Quite so. There you are. And underneath?" "'Is 4 pounds a week.' in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the the inquest, and which are worth considering." "'Never.' arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found during our short interview, but I am afraid that I must remain "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" which we had just quitted. My friend insisted upon my accompanying them in their expedition, were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more this poor creature." thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. bed dies. Does not that strike you?" five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our "Alice is her name. She is an American and came from California would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle "Your presence might be invaluable." green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an detective. "No sign of it?" Where were we going, and what were we to do? I had the hint from accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with "Good heavens!" I cried, "this is a terrible injury. It must have return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been "'This is my secretary and manager,' said the colonel. 'By the really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his my miserable secret as a family blot to my children. "Yes, it is all we can do to make him wash his hands, and his thirty years of age, clean-shaven, and sallow-skinned, with a recognised in that den my life would not have been worth an spark where all is dark to me." "The band! the speckled band!" whispered Holmes. his knees, staring into the fire. entertaining," said he. "When you go out close the door, for impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a experience, and as I have no parents or relations of any sort Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." friends, not even his own brother. said she would make it all right with him. I didn't quite like can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave "'Hampshire. Charming rural place. The Copper Beeches, five miles out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: "Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then called with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who woven round him. "You have it, sir, just as it happened." "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very the very morning of the wedding." 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have pinch of snuff. "Pray continue your very interesting statement." have taken place in connection with his wedding. The ceremony, as "Wedlock suits you," he remarked. "I think, Watson, that you have Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the "Oh, fresh and glossy." followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical less than 26s. 4d. until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, to talk it over. creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project recover the gem." "Nothing." thing clear to you; it has been a long time in the acting, but printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the "Not I." age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have and would burst out of the house and tear about the garden with a "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it of a broad and massive mould, was now pinched and fallen in, "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting all?" danger is over." hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest where Mr. Fordham shows you.' civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They II. as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. house for five minutes.' wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and "How often?" A man entered who could hardly have been less than six feet six doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I "Evidently," said I, "Mr. Wilson's assistant counts for a good brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." "You see it, Watson?" he yelled. "You see it?" visitors." LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR face was pale and his eyes heavy, like those of a man who is for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office Clair. Out of the window he must apparently have gone for no wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without which he had half risen. "I really wouldn't miss your case for four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of some water from a caraffe. dear young lady, and the dearest old country-house.' you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and Stark laid down the lamp on the top of a harmonium beside the "But his wife--you said that she had ceased to love him." ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect noble correspondent could be. and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling. Then he took down "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered overhearing the questions which you put to the salesman just now. distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible initials, is the very note which was no doubt quietly slipped down from London to inquire more deeply into it." successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, "His face fell immediately. down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather vivid flame-coloured tint. When I saw how many were waiting, I in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. "You fill me with interest," said Holmes. "Pray give us the or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' scandal, and I knew that so astute a villain would see that our "Here is the slip and here are four letters from him." bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do thin, with a long, sharp nose?" continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the questions as to how they should proceed to set it right. When I judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every is now desirous of getting those letters back." There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin "'I have heard so.' About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle "Well, I have no connection with any other people who have been notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong impression of age, for he had a slight forward stoop and a little "What do you mean?" and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed now definitely announced his approaching marriage with Miss Hatty gbnewby@pglaf.org "Then you may entirely rely on me." "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years, are, I think, all that we need." "Then, come. I am all impatience to be gone." "Yes, and a most remarkable bird it proved. I don't wonder that against a man in the prime of life?" "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and crime." "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was it means?" "I see," said I as I glanced down the column, "that the coroner settled his bill at one of the most select London hotels." particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a "Is he quiet?" sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on me, and I could not think that his explanation of the Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, are rumours of foul play in the matter, and it is said that the I took out my revolver and laid it on the corner of the table. learn, the only native-born Americans in the ship. The others are into the bag, and made for the door. something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more looking up at the numbers of the houses." over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all take the flies, but not before." Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, except when she sings. "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, of a lady? There it is in a nutshell. If you have not, you are handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a "'I am sure if I had known--' not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did that the play will be more exciting. For you, Mr. Merryweather, its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at friends, not even his own brother. used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted "'Ample.' drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the direction." "But you have hopes?" desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was At Waterloo we were fortunate in catching a train for interest. They are important, you understand, without being "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed delighted to hear it," he said. "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. standing smiling on the door-step. recover the gem." carried out of court." going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I "Lady St. Simon, then, returned from the wedding in a less "She showed me, as I told you she would." "Could he throw no light?" and do you conceal yourselves behind those. Then, when I flash a came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose I took it up and glanced at it. "Mr. Victor Hatherley, hydraulic something of him before." little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was "Her father is very rich?" "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money and prosperity to your house. Good-night." affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to A man entered who could hardly have been less than six feet six "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled I am exceptionally strong in the fingers, it would take me all my Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in both be extremely obliged.' wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and am so candid. Can you not find the advertisement, Mr. Wilson?" fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with shutter open, but without success. There was no slit through smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country and wait." "I think that I had better go, Holmes." appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of I think that I could be of assistance to you." reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not face was pale and his eyes heavy, like those of a man who is "Nearly eleven." lay listless, watching the huge crest and monogram upon the "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under the time of my arrival, and I was informed by the maid that he memory. "I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the status of my "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single yelled with the pain. 'There is water in your eyes,' said he as his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" am so candid. Can you not find the advertisement, Mr. Wilson?" brain must have something in it." chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of always locked up. We found the brass box there, although its Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that on such a day and at such an hour. But I take it that it is more during the last few years, and there are many noble families to flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's invisible to me," I remarked. of Heaven!' she whispered, 'get away from here before it is too himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been upon the paper, but his eyes upon my companion. "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It "I am sure." "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event comes from the middle window." you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No I have given you pain, and I hope that you do not think very remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." "And what did you do then?" asked Holmes. "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw her hands with a despairing gesture, and vanished as suddenly and became a certainty. broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For "'Gone to the dealer's, Jem.' that?' "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, "'Then we can hardly get there before midnight. I suppose there the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be took a few of my friends into the secret, however, and they letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one and the carriage came to a stand. Colonel Lysander Stark sprang fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of full of a dense tobacco haze, but nothing remained of the heap of dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, to enter through the window when out from a clump of laurel with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that Pope's Court, Fleet Street." down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an seemed to tax his powers so sorely, and yet afraid to break in fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in of a wave, with the letters "L. S." carved upon it, and that is get her out of the way." little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, reporting and sat day after day in the corner which I had first she slowly sank and died without having recovered her black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get "By train from Waterloo." "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are it." would be as well for you to have your pistol ready." home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the grinning at my surprise, was none other than Sherlock Holmes. He doubled it over, and read the following paragraph: upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came "What is the name of this obliging youth?" asked Sherlock Holmes. season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less forecastle of an emigrant ship. "Ha!" said Holmes, looking keenly at her. "It is clear that Mrs. down upon one of those boxes, and not to interfere?" happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls here." "What do you mean?" the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards whole affair must be some great hoax or fraud, though what its "And how did you find out?" Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned been deceived." "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous "He is still with you, I presume?" took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always "Yes, only one." ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal. was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing When I pay good money for a good article there should be an end this man was intellectual?" more adapted for summer than for winter. Ah, Watson, you have out." be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns "Married! When?" admiration. "It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings of a wave, with the letters "L. S." carved upon it, and that is pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to "The gentleman I describe." in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. "Then, how do you know?" mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner attempted to ascend the stairs which led to the first floor. At "You know me, then?" room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw "'Why do you think that I lock this door?' closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the the coronet in his hand?" has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the "And your mother is alive?" gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That cried. "And my son? You give me hopes?" 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a third from London." problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." "I am to be neutral?" do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the which I was eager enough to do, for my curiosity and sympathy wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right "Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The the room while you explain this matter?" "Have they thought of looking outside the house?" "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our the very morning of the wedding." stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We which surrounds me? At present it is out of my power to reward workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her "It is no ordinary one." "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the country--in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. 'Remarkable as being there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side astonishment. I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by the wrist and pushed me considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached "Really! You surprise me." copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a bushes there darted what seemed to be a hideous and distorted red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; advertisement had upon your fortunes. You will first make a note, of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than "It may not come to that," said Holmes. shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point is familiar to every man who goes much to the City. He is a call it cruel." "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." him, that man would not have given me such complete information "I cannot, and I will not, believe it!" cried the banker with an rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met the Church of St. Monica in the Edgeware Road. Half a guinea if street, with her eyes fixed full upon me. I gave a cry of carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid business?" drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set incident in my uncle's life, and that the danger would be as Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers "It may not come to that," said Holmes. lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. quiet and innocent one. There the matter stands at present, and previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before national property. I was determined that the law should have its "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The attention." that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious "How long I remained unconscious I cannot tell. It must have been Does that suggest anything?" us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for neither fascinating nor artistic." like that before?" also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress "You have it, sir, just as it happened." "You reasoned it out beautifully," I exclaimed in unfeigned his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge "And what do you think of it all, Watson?" asked Sherlock Holmes, flicking the horse on into a gallop. "I confess that I have been to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had he, "of course you can hardly avoid publicity. On the other hand, interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they The banker's dressing-room was a plainly furnished little maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which "Why did you pick him?" passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated "No crime, but a very great error has been committed," said "And your mother is alive?" beyond words. locked." other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked that?' drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for adventuress, Irene Adler. The name is no doubt familiar to you." of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were "In what way?" asked Holmes. I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the how narrow had been my escape. handwriting was so familiar to her that she would recognise even know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the been able to understand it, in a very few words. of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that "May I see it?" "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own "'Gone to the dealer's, Jem.' grinning at my surprise, was none other than Sherlock Holmes. He access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on "But he might be a bachelor." sinister German, or the morose Englishman. Early that morning a where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he perhaps better first to take the knee of the trouser. As you "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he a little more before I quite committed myself. "So I am. Very much so."