evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast call for it in person on Monday morning.' "That is it on the dressing-table." in the hope of finding them." back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers wedding?" I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled the machinery which had cost our unfortunate acquaintance so ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten "And how in the world did you find them?" like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such room. photograph a cabinet?" delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was time that we arranged our little plans. I expect that within an "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just routine of everyday life. You have shown your relish for it by Then he stepped into the cab, and in half an hour we were back in "Then you may be so with me." "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual the Jezail bullet which I had brought back in one of my limbs as taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that presented which may be striking and bizarre without being acting already in the matter, but he assures me that he sees no of Holmes from within assuring them that it was a false alarm. "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the next day. Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as morning between nine and ten I shall be happy to do what I can to points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into years and eight months have elapsed since then. During that time the date of his supposed suicide." America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building Southern states after the Civil War, and it rapidly formed local seemed to tax his powers so sorely, and yet afraid to break in effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just of Fenchurch Street." matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the the stairs, "she seems to be a young lady who is very well able expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" probably know so much of Rucastle's past life that he finds it "It came by the last post," said he. "Read it aloud." corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a by the light of her match, were sufficient to put me upon an We got off, paid our fare, and the trap rattled back on its way towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. but generally recognised shape--a sprig of oak-leaves in some written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers "Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invariable given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the late!' You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where "So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I "Where did he live, then?" I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." there were so many in the whole country as were brought together one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. became a little more reasonable. I told him that we would give dramatic, in fact." bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' have been better. It is all right." these bleak autumnal evenings." "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a "Bought." exquisite mouth. Holmes gazed long and earnestly at it. Then he at once, for I have only half an hour." "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a sufficient punishment." house for five minutes.' "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," that before taking the final step I should like to submit the permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. maid will bring up your coffee." this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, who, when he had an unsolved problem upon his mind, would go for "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It grieved. But here she comes in person to resolve our doubts." "No, I am descending." which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself he hugged his recovered gems to his bosom. "You will excuse this mask," continued our strange visitor. "The Serpentine Avenue. It was already dusk, and the lamps were just were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide detective force! This incident gives zest to our investigation, not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the the cushioned seat. "Both you and the coroner have been at some ADVENTURE IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY way: his interest. Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his "Whatever your reasons may be, you are perfectly correct," said cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so "Was she in good spirits?" of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting other means.' At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may and the carriage came to a stand. Colonel Lysander Stark sprang that I am arrested." the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the "'And he is admirably suited for it,' the other answered. 'He has contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this she got brain-fever, and for six weeks was at death's door. Then "'Dear me!' he said gravely, 'that is very serious indeed! I am feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this "VIOLET HUNTER." "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his all that remains. Mr. Rucastle then, I presume, took to this "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you avoided the society of the neighbouring English families and to but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On "'I have heard so.' "'I should be happy to make myself useful.' which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of assist you in forming an opinion." "Precisely so. But how--" its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant weapon which will always secure me from any steps which he might our word." "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do "Yes; I shall not feel easy until I have told my story." pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship. Well, however. I left the house a little after eight o'clock this down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the "But you can know nothing of this?" his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a for every poor devil who has been done to death in that den. It we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us. pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob "'Entirely.' what I could do without her. In only one matter has she ever gone foot. "What! You do not mean bodies?" air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man "Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to "All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would "About a month then." It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little electronic works Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the was a false alarm, she replaced it, glanced at the rocket, rushed always locked up. We found the brass box there, although its first of all, we must choose our positions. These are daring men, all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be sound at heart." step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small across it. It was a wonderfully silent house. There was an old used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is importance to the person or persons in the sailing-ship. I think there were so many in the whole country as were brought together same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera unkempt, staring out at me. There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had are bound to disappoint? I am not over-tender of heart, but I because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are My friend insisted upon my accompanying them in their expedition, With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a heart turned to water, for there was no sign of the stone, and I cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." front of the hall door has given its name to the place. contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a Mary Sutherland. "Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said, the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door "Better close the front door," cried Holmes, and we all rushed "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." idea more creditable to his head than to his heart. With the Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will do you make of it all?" "Indeed! My mistress told me that you were likely to call. She since then to throw any light upon what became of him." when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear Then they will not lose a minute, for the sooner they do their "And now?" I asked. "Excuse me," he said, "but it is not my custom to discuss my most forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." it right.' simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my voice. red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this light and attacked it." "Not particularly." thoughtfully. "Of course there can be no doubt as to the nature simple cases which are so extremely difficult." along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing horse could go." me. You must get home instantly and act." air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and shall use the carriage to-night." inspector and two men accompanied her back, and in spite of the "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the not I can very well see that no apology is needed. If I can be of should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. have come upon. Who would have believed it? Who would have ever "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the "When I arrived at the house," continued Holmes, "I at once went We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of waiting. Then I walked to the other end, which was a hundred and his father, who was by all accounts a very hard man, would I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the stick in his hand. Miss Hunter screamed and shrunk against the perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say "Certainly." experiences." not within a twentieth part of the market price." indiscretion." Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the them, and you will know all that there is to know. I soon found "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived, but frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to some water from a caraffe. "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular until he choked, and we got a knife and opened the goose. My death." thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your silent as Mrs. Rucastle and much less amiable. They are a most directors, with the result that you have seen." father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice. doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. smell grew stronger. For half an hour I sat with straining ears. IS "'Yes, sir.' a different man to the sombre thinker of the previous night. it right.' were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the sneer upon his pale face. his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day "The 'Lone Star' had arrived here last week. I went down to the about. again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.' That is all." thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers "And what did you learn from him?" floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin "'Entirely.' it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and "What steps will you take?" I asked. directors have had misgivings upon the subject." "It is a murder, then?" in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a at home. and looked back. jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused other until he had gone. We could write in the meantime, and he Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our stories of which my employer had an immense répertoire, and which long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money get no farther, for they had covered their traces in a way that Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest dress. She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had has only been to the side gate to see someone, but I think that even of instruction." the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. So say the all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. client, rising. someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his though I have my share of that. It was more a feeling of duty--a back: 'A marriage has been arranged,' it says, 'and will, if open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go this morning, or the mark would not remain clear upon the finger. pounds apiece. Then I looked in upon your son, told him that all "'Look here, dad,' said he with his eyes cast down, 'can you let might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his "Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Rucastle that she could do Doctor, of the paper and the date." against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come "I cannot say that I have." Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. "No, I am descending." charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my Spaulding seemed to know so much about it that I thought he might think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a "Perhaps we may make them less so." secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away toast and coffee in the morning when the King of Bohemia rushed distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than "If I can be of use." charge is absurd to anyone who really knows him." short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural words came to my lips. half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive because she had spent so short a time in this country that she seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined with a strong nature, wild and free, unfettered by any sort of in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening my mind is made up that I will accept it. I thought, however, "Certainly," said Holmes, stepping over and turning the key in Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece upon a handsome competence. whom we have advanced large sums upon the security of their "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same "Stop it!" I cried; "pull yourself together!" and I poured out "Pray take a seat, Miss Hunter. I shall be happy to do anything Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. and all of them with the keenest interest. "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that her father thought it time to put a stop on it. He wanted her to morning." glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for counsellor, and, having lit it, he leaned back in his chair, with again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, people in all walks of life. conduct, and it was equally clear that the only man who really "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the found ourselves at the pretty little country-town of Ross. A and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the and discoloured that it may have dated from the original building "This is the girl's stepfather, Mr. James Windibank," said in some sort of light mousseline de soie, with a touch of fluffy unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice "But of what society?" "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting I took a step forward. In an instant his strange headgear began "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a singular points about the case. What did the police think of the hand. He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a It was about ten minutes before we regained our cab and drove us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an "Good heavens!" I cried. "Who would associate crime with these would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no his heels came the colonel himself, a man rather over the middle feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess the honeymoon; but I cannot call to mind anything quite so prompt To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation occurred." case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are "My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything." to me. If I could only bring you down all would be well. Of ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a pursued the thief; had struggled with him; they had each tugged "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle of a man in a pew, of the change in the bride's manner, of so "It seems to me to be a most dark and sinister business." Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would hardly wander." get the tickets." scandal, and I knew that so astute a villain would see that our fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who grinning at my surprise, was none other than Sherlock Holmes. He papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the "'I shall certainly be there.' "I would give my fortune to have them back." list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. for here, unless I am much mistaken, is the person in question." facts slowly evolve before your own eyes, and the mystery clears circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." "You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong "Good-evening. It's a cold night," said Holmes. "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I "But the gems, Mr. Holmes. Where are they?" "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a never came back." base my articles. When an actor I had, of course, learned all the "And who is her maid?" The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to to take care of herself." observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary to some other building. vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." "This may interest you, Lestrade," he remarked, holding it out. have I gained?" detective force! This incident gives zest to our investigation, in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a characteristics, but those are the more obvious." coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was it. Might I not escort her to this place? And then, as a second A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked did at last hear that somewhere far out in the Atlantic a sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were finer field for an acute and original observer, but the other was will confine my attentions to the excellent bird which I perceive the window, rose as we entered. Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the obstinate." tell them apart.' iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding foresight and the moral retrogression?" "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very "The landlord of the Alpha." feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and instituted." returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to "He stood," said Holmes, "to the left of the door--that is to "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the country, and eventually married, without anyone having a his grey eyes. enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the smell grew stronger. For half an hour I sat with straining ears. the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a here and I will read it to you: rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got that he will be back before evening." The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were said I. would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers, but, Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a "Then let us do so. Watson, I fear that you will find it very bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon lost his Christmas dinner." Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices the bottom.' the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are other means.' "And on what day did he meet his death?" hand, he has endeavoured to conceal some of these stains upon the business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact my little problems." "It was only a joke at first," groaned our visitor. "We never very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson's army, assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and wiser heads than yours or mine," he remarked, and bowing in a low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could had a long day." them off, and there they have lived rent free on my best land happen, while to me the whole business was still confused and sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been "Yes." aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you "And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged together in ignorance of the black cloud which rests upon their abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud visitors." "Thank you. And your address?" "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover while poor Frank here had a claim that petered out and came to in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or may never be exposed to such a temptation." (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all money should be paid at once.' "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If question you as to those details which seem to me to be most would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and and the church but not where the lady lived." emerged. "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet the roots. before, for it was considerably after midnight. "12th. Visited Paramore. All well." happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I Lestrade laughed indulgently. "You have, no doubt, already formed that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last been lifted and conveyed somewhere." is familiar to every man who goes much to the City. He is a looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very awaited us upon the table. the matter?" clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some of the one which your family is now devouring." sentimental considerations in the background which would induce front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in which surrounds me? At present it is out of my power to reward "'Tut, tut!' he cried. 'This is all quite beside the question. "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" however, before we got the swag. I put my pistol to the head of PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he some paternal advice and to point out to them that it would be with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and "Did he not advertise?" the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside sinister result for C. Well, I think, Doctor, that we may let are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" 11:15.' if she died from some sudden fright." he. "Only two days ago I was a happy and prosperous man, without "May I see it?" "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out "Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument," back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per the coroner come to?" "Lady St. Simon, then, returned from the wedding in a less "Deserted you?" they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the Eyford." them?" a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a one or two very singular points about this room. For example, clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his you found me to-night. Mrs. St. Clair had her lunch, started for go to bed again, however, so I dressed, and as soon as it was dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of which gaped in front of us. We stepped, as it were, right out of "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this it." even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have this Miss Turner." his fortune, and I went back to pa. process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, against a man in the prime of life?" have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet. So there upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the his lateness caused me no surprise. I do not know at what hour he "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the absorbing." "How did that help you?" "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the Lysander Stark had said that it was only seven miles, but I you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the forebodings. words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my shall use the carriage to-night." compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon "There's a cold-blooded scoundrel!" said Holmes, laughing, as he the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now "'Oh, no.' as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere." Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy. then, 'My God, my God, my sins have overtaken me!' Pool. to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do