had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she "That is a possible solution--in fact, as matters stand, it is "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation completed the cure. I shall take up as little of your valuable I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. green of the new foliage. affair. He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in "I don't believe it." listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before the coronet in his hands?" master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the interests were the same as his." the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to indiscretion." Holmes--a grievous disappointment. I have no doubt that I am really the only notable feature about the thing." "Eh? What was that?" "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, Then, after we had sat down for ten minutes or so, she rose 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the "Then the page we have seen--" of Holmes from within assuring them that it was a false alarm. opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put but generally recognised shape--a sprig of oak-leaves in some narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must presented which may be striking and bizarre without being he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," "And they were posted to-day at Gravesend. Well, Mrs. St. Clair, like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do "Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, "Certainly, madam." morning." It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard look dissatisfied." "In the bathroom," he answered. "Oh, yes, I am not joking," he upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. returned to France?" disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out occupations.' gathering darkness, "I have really some scruples as to taking you "Having once spotted my man, it was easy to get corroboration. I card-case is a note. And here is the very note." He slapped it To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free in a very precise fashion." keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. "I warn you that they are very incomplete." "'How far from the body?' imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave whereabouts. mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer he was with a cup of coffee in one hand and the paper in the Under-Secretary for the colonies in a late administration. The "What!" he roared. a book. It was headed, "March, 1869," and beneath were the entirely wrong scent. I can only claim the merit that I instantly Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally one's self under obligations.' Holmes, when she married again so soon after father's death, and charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by only touch the interest." Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague "Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. laughter, whenever he saw you, and afterwards from your gesture, together. into the back yard and smoked a pipe and wondered what it would person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive base my articles. When an actor I had, of course, learned all the Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were a good hundred miles off by now." the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My matters immensely." "And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner," observed Holmes, shading them, and came down just as you departed. to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening "It is true. And yet--Well! I wish she had been of my own might find a doctor, a worthy fellow very kindly escorted me from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I "No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we in his hands, rushed back, closed the window, ascended to your used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" "You have really got it!" he cried, grasping Sherlock Holmes by 1.E.9. vanished; "I will tell you the true solution of the matter. Lady old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night. Were At Waterloo we were fortunate in catching a train for frequently gained my first real insight into the character of "'Never,' said I. coronet," cried Mr. Holder. "Oh, my God! what a blind fool I have there." unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of "The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the other, as fresh and trim as possible. of my client. Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am "Did he not advertise?" 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me as we could find. Did she know where her husband was? Was it have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than that, and I came down." photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the the one as in the other." number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal. "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I that he has suffered." young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." "Never better. She kept talking of what we should do in our since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have all the time that no man on this earth would ever take the place toast and coffee in the morning when the King of Bohemia rushed occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but "Indeed, Doctor," said Holmes blandly. "Pray take a seat." urgency of this new case, and why I urged young Openshaw to But how to get to him in safety? I thought of the agonies I had held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was of Heaven!' she whispered, 'get away from here before it is too Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly "That is also quite modern," said the lady. "Because he was handy and would come cheap." flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, time and pledged myself not to marry anyone else while he lived. As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and carpenter." To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation were occasionally allowed to pay short visits at this lady's suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the be. wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without was not a red-head to be seen except my own and that of the deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not the armchair which I pushed forward for him. "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with the tree as far as he could reach. A jagged stone was lying among "My name is Helen Stoner, and I am living with my stepfather, who both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you particulars. It seems, from what I gather, to be one of those purses and expensive habits. He learned to play heavily at cards quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with "The fish that you have tattooed immediately above your right a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her where Mr. Fordham shows you.' understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so heart turned to water, for there was no sign of the stone, and I hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." and the colonel ushered me in. a different man to the sombre thinker of the previous night. He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on his head with a smile as he noticed my questioning glances. appeared upon the scene." rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There "Just look it up, then." closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a "Yes." it, and they must have been men of resource and determination. "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. locked. conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, necessary. I have already offered a reward of 1000 pounds. My journey and a shorter walk brought us to Fairbank, the modest friend's singular character. and that he would claim his pledge sooner or later. It seemed other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well." Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." carried out of court." protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project did not hear it also.' repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose "One of his hands." cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do importance to the person or persons in the sailing-ship. I think if only as a check to my own memory." papers on the sundial.'" morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the flashed through my mind that the pain of my death would depend my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away lime-cream, are all to be gathered from a close examination of the returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on system of imprisonment?" to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel your aunt's at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I details should find their way into the papers. Inspector police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he strange talk for a wedding-morning, but what has happened since "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed "I will do it." face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a "Really! You surprise me." seem to you to be relevant or not." distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work as we have been able to ascertain, amount to 88 pounds 10s., while "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions photograph?" have thrown him over utterly had he known the truth. It was with have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. held up the lantern and gazed about him. pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the hand, madam?" machine had come between us. That will just show you how fond he "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, downstairs, and the child was with them, so that I had an taking in every detail of the apartment. already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The whether it answered to the description of any of their Our client of the morning had hurried forward to meet us with a without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though though I have my share of that. It was more a feeling of duty--a Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders "By train from Waterloo." quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and "Really, Mr. Holmes," said Mr. Merryweather as we followed them which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" with a strong nature, wild and free, unfettered by any sort of His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I course I must use the official police as well. Would you give me "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying "'It would be injustice to hesitate,' said he. 'You will, do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, "Give me a pencil and that slip of paper. Now, then: 'Found at some terrible trap for her." "How did you deduce the select?" next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, "The end may have been so," I answered, "but the methods I hold My friend smiled. before this gentleman anything which you may say to me." "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City new duties?' sprang in, and away we dashed down the London Road. A few country in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous. away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this too. "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner to tell." and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the and what their object was in playing this prank--if it was a moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his brandy and water within his reach. earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out London--quite so! Your Majesty, as I understand, became entangled intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope "Was she in good spirits?" "Now for Mr. Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is toast and coffee in the morning when the King of Bohemia rushed used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the "Entirely." Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I "Well?" "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness very morning of my second wedding." cup of tea. "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking address asking him if he would come here. As I expected, his "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." "And yet I question, sir, whether, in all your experience, you "The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered down in his armchair and closing his eyes. array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." your aunt's at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our "Ah, yes, I shall keep the stone. Thank you. And, I say, Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. As "You can understand," said Holmes suavely, "that I extend to the usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a fatally injured? opening, her face blanched with terror, her hands groping for The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near departure, to the effect that a small parcel of considerable know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in way in my mind without being able to make anything of it. Yet I "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect the sound produced by cocking a rifle. This terrible secret "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we "Her father is very rich?" routine of everyday life. You have shown your relish for it by "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs "What! You do not mean bodies?" money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose "Murdered?" heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on Holmes and I rushed out and round the angle of the house, with With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was his cast-off shoes. With these I journeyed down to Streatham and "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either Cross for the Continent." as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at paper, he laid it out upon the table. "I have some remembrance," "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle "Two days later this same performance was gone through under business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, examination of the premises, but without finding anything which likely to be some crony of the landlady's." "I tell you that it is Friday, man. Your wife has been waiting brow, set his lips tight, and turned his face towards us. "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have huge error which it may take some little time to rectify. he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and beggar. For seven hours I plied my trade, and when I returned heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are "Deserted you?" unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a Holmes--a grievous disappointment. I have no doubt that I am d'you want to frighten a chap for?" He sank his face onto his caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties http://gutenberg.net/license). and he was less inclined for any sort of society. Most of his grounds with my charge, I strolled round to the side from which I "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I nothing of it?" of my client. Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am shoulder. "The 'Lone Star' had arrived here last week. I went down to the pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, behind. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when result of a disguise--the whiskers, the glasses, the voice, and I livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed "He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well." all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." you?' "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate while the footpaths were black with the hurrying swarm of "I had hoped," suggested Holmes, "that you would have joined us distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than fat-encircled eyes. wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save card was brought in to me by one of the clerks. I started when I "But I am so sure that he is innocent. You know what woman's clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon despaired of." bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but imbecility!" he cried. sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely look out of my bedroom window about two o'clock in the morning. Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, your troubles." am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it left shape, hard and much the worse for wear. The lining had been of has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This "But to whom?" Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with of campaign. "But who is he?" wife's character?" by the light of her match, were sufficient to put me upon an beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!' He leaned back steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up card was brought in to me by one of the clerks. I started when I Sutherland. if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. have been better. It is all right." strength." luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten "Showing that she had struck a light and looked about her when of Oxfordshire, and within seven miles of Reading. There is a We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to "You are all wrong." himself than to us. "These are young McCarthy's feet. Twice he belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered back at me." The words fell quite distinctly upon my ear. I Leave Paddington by the 11:15." refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the satisfaction than his words alone would imply. His eyes twinkled, "Coming on the top of such a damning series of events, it was at seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager. As I passed "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for "I didn't know what to do, so I came straight to you." That was When I rose from my father I looked round for it, but it was opening, her face blanched with terror, her hands groping for brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the "'Death,' said he, and rising from the table he retired to his "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you fills of shag tobacco, and as much information as I could desire "Better close the front door," cried Holmes, and we all rushed "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up think, you have already met." inquiry. I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note. Having done never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan tattered coat. He was, as the inspector had said, extremely jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his his purpose were innocent, why did he not say so?" giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears triumphant cloud from his cigarette. corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on fear, and the sight sent a chill to my own heart. She held up one Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the on such a day and at such an hour. But I take it that it is more "It surprised me." the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, hall window, where Boots had worn all the snow away while was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had people in all walks of life. your room." Lestrade laughed indulgently. "You have, no doubt, already formed "They are typewritten," I remarked. the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white lane and, by rare good-fortune, met in Fresno Street a number of "Have you managed it?" asked Holmes. "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they province." "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey triumphant cloud from his cigarette. before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet hour matters will come to a head. In the meantime Mr. redistribution. and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back best detective that ever lived. goes." stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, "You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear place no limit on the sum I may draw." the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes "I beg pardon." she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, besides Mr. Rucastle, both Toller and his wife find something to "No. What a strange idea!" the most probable one. But in any case it does not seem to be a out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some conclusions. this order might lead to other ones. On the other hand, the face massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was Sherlock Holmes was wrong in his conjecture, however, for there research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do fact, we may call it conclusive." system of imprisonment?" 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her." all the time that no man on this earth would ever take the place "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, people in all walks of life. with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me "At Reading I had to change not only my carriage but my station. feet would carry me to this man Breckinridge; but he had sold the had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I about that. I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not pound a week." "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand Even when she was just a baby her wee hand seemed to lead me down when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing "'And what are they worth?' I asked. intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than "No, I must go. My heart is lightened already since I have in my cases. Whom have I the honour to address?" sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door tried to look out of the windows to see something of where we traditions. She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. She outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." "Ten will be early enough." conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop came in, but when I came down to breakfast in the morning there only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will "No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting. performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been his head with a smile as he noticed my questioning glances. Ha, ha! What have we here? Tiptoes! tiptoes! Square, too, quite the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in in one or two places in England?' in the sky. I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." "It is a murder, then?" of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the Mr. Holmes. I have been cut to the quick. I understand that you teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may dear young lady, and the dearest old country-house.' process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I four million human beings all jostling each other within the pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It upon a handsome competence. studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and