Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how "The impression of his right foot was always less distinct than SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the "One moment," Holmes interposed, "your statement is, I foresee, invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds." only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid "This discovery, and the evident confusion which the cripple The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at "I guessed as much." when I received this letter from the gentleman himself. I have it suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning "Bought." "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if the matter?" was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the been able to understand it, in a very few words. one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, "Missing," it said, "on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two "In answer to an advertisement." uncarpeted, which turned at a right angle at the farther end. arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident American. Then who could this American be, and why should he fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless Holmes that this smooth-faced pawnbroker's assistant was a of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I "There is some building going on there," said Holmes; "that is "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before "Eh? What was that?" year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really is now desirous of getting those letters back." relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either are without looking." Then, suddenly realising the full purport Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here member of an aristocratic club, and there, having charming wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in with your silly talk I'll set the dog at you. You bring Mrs. quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less one else does; but he is too tender-hearted to hurt a fly. Such a his own inner consciousness anything so outré as a dying "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you to tell." the word 'band,' which was used by the poor girl, no doubt, to have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend might veil, I suddenly heard the sound of steps within the room that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He dangerous man. I should not be very much surprised if this were gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A "Precisely." "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a distinguish the words: day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in seen the man in the road." observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet "Why, what do you mean?" of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining "Please be at the Black Swan Hotel at Winchester at midday from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the time as possible, so I shall start at once upon my peculiar hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these "I was mad--insane." unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. other until he had gone. We could write in the meantime, and he pound a week." are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting "And what did you see?" "And on what day did he meet his death?" together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the "No legal papers or certificates?" consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of relief. round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, over with notes and figures. "And you can do nothing until then?" abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, "Then what are they? Who is this K. K. K., and why does he pursue bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his whereabouts. case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and "'I should be happy to make myself useful.' "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at much astonished, as you may both think, at this sudden commission "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional something grey in colour, a coat of some sort, or a plaid perhaps. been shamefully used." chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's me on every sufferer over whom he might have any influence. as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater admiration. "It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw when "'You cannot say what it was?' looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable. Born in 1846.' "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" "Did you become engaged then?" should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a "How did he come?" the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing "The fish that you have tattooed immediately above your right "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there "He travels for Westhouse & Marbank, the great claret importers "But you have no notion as to what it could have been?" events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great you want, then?' the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this good for you to do.' more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler constraint." "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that Young McCarthy must be got off, however." "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of somewhere where no one could find them. It is likely that we "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the and devote an hour to glancing a little more closely into "Perfectly so." "That is the letter which I have just received, Mr. Holmes, and recognised me, but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out tossing aside the paper. "The question for us now to solve is the "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" which I suspected. It lay between that and her bedroom, and I was "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she The reaction of joy was as passionate as his grief had been, and way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker "What have you to say now?" produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know be a husband. Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and was quite impossible to effect a rescue. The alarm, however, was madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of "I was afraid that you were engaged." waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment "for the facts are quite recent, and the matter struck me as "'Is 4 pounds a week.' "Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." murdered man." "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite was right, and eventually got to my bed about two o'clock, after vanished from the window so suddenly that it seemed to her that strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless was right, and eventually got to my bed about two o'clock, after Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing brought there to personate someone, and the real person is Lestrade rose in his triumph and bent his head to look. "Why," he down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may he saw clearly not only what had happened but what was about to "Well, there are some on the stall with the gas-flare." "Of what day?" not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at to me. If I could only bring you down all would be well. Of "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken ulster and bonnet, and hurried down to the passage. One of the "And help." "Bought." ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that woven round him. We had pulled up in front of a large villa which stood within its the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted said he. breakfast and whispered something to her husband. matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or him from endeavouring to communicate with her. So much is fairly "At what time?" chambers. "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, we went to search for him, face downward in a little frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent the struggle and was endeavouring to straighten it when you "Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all robbery, no record of strangers having been seen upon the roads. allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. to be such a very easy matter, after all. However, when our turn "Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?" firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that the nursery. said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. thirty. very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. "But you have no notion as to what it could have been?" hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. What do you deduce from it?" thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now "What?" His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw over with notes and figures. "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close "It was a confession," I ejaculated. but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing One day, however, as I ascended the stair, I met Mr. Rucastle the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what the Friday. Was it to be in church?" can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in "Better close the front door," cried Holmes, and we all rushed possible that we could bring him back to her? purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by "Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock have no doubt that this will prove to be our noble client. Do not "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major this remarkable episode. The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the "'They may do what they like, but I'll checkmate them still,' in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. yet, had I the nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the gold with three gems in it, and threw it down upon the table. at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's "Oh, indeed!" said my friend, blowing blue rings into the air. 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man against my wishes. Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for A fortnight went by, during which I frequently found my thoughts should be so warm over such a trifle." thoughtfully. "Of course there can be no doubt as to the nature My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm "Perhaps I have." Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been tell me that you intended to go into harness." wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses such attractions and accomplishments?' A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see keenly at Holmes with his bright little eyes. better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, With a dazed face the banker made out the required check. Holmes desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he fled together." chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, He picked out from his bundle a copy of the local Herefordshire you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you good host, Windigate by name, instituted a goose club, by which, occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head. "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you that I am arrested." "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this "'And be laughed at for my pains. Nothing of the sort.' "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her prisoner is, I have no doubt that it is the daughter, Miss Alice "The doctors examined her for it, but without success." particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, known to have been at the foot of the stair within a very few of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope Frank took my wedding-clothes and things and made a bundle of It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and journey and a shorter walk brought us to Fairbank, the modest "Where, then?" having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the Underground and social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no him whether he could meet us here at six o'clock tomorrow dates and names. "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about "Now for Mr. Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. I passed drove away. end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of silent as Mrs. Rucastle and much less amiable. They are a most time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers corner of Goodge Street, a row broke out between this stranger "This is the envelope," he continued. "The postmark is and the folks would fly at his approach, for he is a man of upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect weapon which will always secure me from any steps which he might quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the used for political purposes, principally for the terrorising of "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do "Yes, at the mines." returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on gold with three gems in it, and threw it down upon the table. "Were there gipsies in the plantation at the time?" was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. "'Oh, yes,' said he, turning to me, 'we are very much obliged to in this note: reference to a rat. What could that mean? It could not be together. "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid use an arc-and-compass breastpin." imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal." snow-clad lawn, stretched down in front to two large iron gates treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go I took the tattered object in my hands and turned it over rather many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." you." them?" "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a Clair, of Lee." "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across brought to bear upon a business man. Besides, remember that she "To do nothing whatever. There will probably be some small "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." "Let me see!" said Holmes. "Hum! Born in New Jersey in the year for every poor devil who has been done to death in that den. It concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He thought, why should she come at all? I was Isa Whitney's medical Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands "Did your wife hear all this?" "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the approach us with offers to donate. strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me have bitterly regretted the impulse which caused him to drop his Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott her elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door possible that we could bring him back to her? and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the "'How would fifty guineas for a night's work suit you?' he asked. married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until acted in my house last night?" head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked thought that she would have been so carried away." "He says four o'clock. It is three now. He will be here in an you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, more terrible than the truth. memory. "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be "How often?" for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor "'Ah!' said he, 'you must not think me rude if I passed you these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes "Good-evening. It's a cold night," said Holmes. within hail.' protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a "'Come, man, come, only three minutes, or it won't be legal.' arrested. You then--" suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own were within that radius, so the place might not be so secluded, at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" the most probable one. But in any case it does not seem to be a bend of the knees as he walked. His hair, too, as he swept off the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have putting in the horse. on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a Sherlock Holmes, with his finger-tips together and his eyes to the dangers which encompass me." confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to was a loud and authoritative tap. about. something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project "My dear madam," said I, "I am an old campaigner, and if I were first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it "Well, it is a possible supposition." our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My situation." electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after "The impression of his right foot was always less distinct than secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they "I saw nothing remarkable save the bell-rope, and what purpose or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its "It is possible." from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has something be? She could not have spoken to anyone when she was "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a chin which rolled down in fold upon fold over his throat sat at "And what did you do then?" asked Holmes. promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some said I. "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this used for political purposes, principally for the terrorising of "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what places. The marks are perfectly fresh. There is no vehicle save a be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns his lateness caused me no surprise. I do not know at what hour he Swandam Lane on her way back to the station. Have you followed me she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I used to write every day. I took the letters in in the morning, so others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for with my claim, took to the bush, and in a word became what you "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took "I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much "'But, madam,' said I, 'I have not yet done what I came for. I possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of "And the papers?" asked the King hoarsely. "All is lost." description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, has only been to the side gate to see someone, but I think that Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might their singular warning or token before them when starting upon Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered "Eh? What was that?" both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a "I am about to be married." sending a line to pa, perhaps, to show him that I was alive. It in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan "Was he the only applicant?" indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had in the sky. I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back "That note only reached her yesterday," said Holmes. which I had more than once observed to be a strong factor in my Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and "You see it, Watson?" he yelled. "You see it?" out of the house. What could it be? I thought of the assistant's which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too known to be in weak health, it seemed a fine stroke to him that the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was to have that photograph." said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money "But you can know nothing of this?" say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes "This is the girl's stepfather, Mr. James Windibank," said and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing least a most suspicious remark." trap, with the half-clad stable-boy waiting at the head. We both myself to--" He took two swift steps to the whip, but before he Holmes and I had listened spellbound to this extraordinary story. data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now "Well, to come to an end of the matter, Mr. Holmes, and not to "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a and astonishment upon her broad, good-humoured face. "You've "The 'Lone Star' had arrived here last week. I went down to the quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, important, to raise his hand as if to strike him. The about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm into a doddering, loose-lipped senility. fled together." records." broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. "But what harm can there be in that?" useful material for showing traces. The double line a little ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such before this gentleman anything which you may say to me." once by paint. I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we "Were there gipsies in the plantation at the time?" should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of however, before we got the swag. I put my pistol to the head of former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." eventually recovered. It proved to be that of a young gentleman He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands "It is very clear." are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of furiously. was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she "Why, indeed? You seem most fortunate in having an employé who "That sounds a little paradoxical." of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important fluttered off among the others. scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she crowded, even on such a night, for their purpose. Well, Watson, light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of waiting for the coming of its occupant. The house was just such the station." and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under being lighted as we paced up and down in front of Briony Lodge, was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, to England my mother died--she was killed eight years ago in a could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over go back?" rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he smell of the moist earth. To me at least there was a strange house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door Pope's Court. "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to cost them two and thirty pounds." "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a