and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little "The knees of his trousers." the morning and make my own way in the world.' they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated perplexity from it to my illustrious client. searched, without anything being found which could incriminate and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw What a time it seemed! From comparing notes afterwards it was but "I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a which our visitor detailed to us. "I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity." noble correspondent could be. at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any "One of his hands." bird I ate is country bred." trying to your nerves." skylight. sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide have some good news for you. And good-night, Watson," he added, I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered "Why? What do you mean?" "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" gbnewby@pglaf.org still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and and then rubbed it twice vigorously across and down the last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything occurred." an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.' putting in the horse. reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' "But if he is innocent, who has done it?" "It has been a case of considerable interest," he remarked, cheerful frame of mind than she had gone to it. What did she do lives upon the second floor of the opium den, and who was chin which rolled down in fold upon fold over his throat sat at fait accompli?" hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen "Oh, yes, mother is alive and well. I wasn't best pleased, Mr. and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." His smile broadened. gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by and thank our stars that we are never likely to find ourselves in several quiet little villages up there." another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double all-comprehensive glances. "But his voice was just a little too coaxing. He overdid it. I congenial hunt. work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There "Your sister is dead, then?" Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in "Here is the first notice which I can find. It is in the personal A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It "The impression of his right foot was always less distinct than down from London to inquire more deeply into it." some terrible trap for her." electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but Holmes' face clouded over. "The knees of his trousers." more solid." "One moment," Holmes interposed, "your statement is, I foresee, young Openshaw's." been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front "Nothing." sake, don't!" down from London to inquire more deeply into it." "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. "It's no use, John Clay," said Holmes blandly. "You have no his eyes and forehead. adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when pressing in one house as in another. "I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall was even redder than mine. He said a few words to each candidate learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the his eyes and forehead. into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it crowded, even on such a night, for their purpose. Well, Watson, woman who has had her own way to make in the world. said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This you for a few hours?" evidence," I remarked. solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from good for you to do.' little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the "Then what has happened to him?" address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to see me here to avoid scandal." as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now past the zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me his fortune, and I went back to pa. accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw your aunt's at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our "And the murderer?" believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest "I am sure." as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure "And how?" do.' "But I am so sure that he is innocent. You know what woman's "Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the delirious. other lovers by making love himself." man's hat, on which he raised his stick to defend himself and, get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I "I was sure that I might rely on you." "I have been making a fool of myself," he gasped. Does that suggest anything?" face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good out to the cab, and seen him driven through the darkness. In a "I warn you that they are very incomplete." "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution all the time that no man on this earth would ever take the place and were shown to be quite solid all round, and the flooring was Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, who was a member of your goose club." column of the Morning Post, and dates, as you see, some weeks "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal our landlady had provided, "I must discuss it while I eat, for I to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the hour matters will come to a head. In the meantime Mr. had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the other is to the young lady's stepfather, Mr. Windibank, asking security.' lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect against my wishes. Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in some place of shelter and let the county police know what has in my cases. Whom have I the honour to address?" brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident imbecility!" he cried. said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be acted in my house last night?" that, and I came down." certainly not very gracious." upon the linoleum. Our own door flew open, and a lady, clad in It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could it." sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager. As I passed "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary satisfaction than his words alone would imply. His eyes twinkled, saw, at the border of the wood and close by the lake, Mr. "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an "Of what?" mind, ever again be happy under your roof, and I feel that I must "'Oh,' says she, 'we've set yours aside for you--Jem's bird, we "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, fields. On examining it, however, I found that this deposit was a bend of the knees as he walked. His hair, too, as he swept off strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship. Well, We had pulled up in front of a large villa which stood within its and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing a very serious extent. My morning's work has not been wasted, "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange from the major, imploring me to come at once. My father had greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual Gutenberg-tm License. "Were they all fastened this morning?" home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns "That is unusual in a young girl." gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would the south-west, I see." should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I at the time of my mother's re-marriage. She had a considerable stately, old-fashioned manner he departed. been shamefully used." knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where without wincing, though he bit his lip from time to time. tangible cause. And now, Miss Stoner, we must leave you for if think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our instincts rose up against that laugh. the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who hard-headed British jury." light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else "Texas, I think." understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home were new raised from a basin. your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet. So there southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his presume?" "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, "Without, however, the knowledge of pre-existing cases which Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend "But I am so sure that he is innocent. You know what woman's the inquest, and which are worth considering." upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace." either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow recall any case within my experience which looked at the first and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a "Did your wife hear all this?" fear." and the whole place been reduced to such absolute ruin that, save should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those over their heads might have suggested the strange adjective which in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by fine.' He took a step backward, cocked his head on one side, and that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it." "It appears that his arrest did not take place at once, but after innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, "MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES,--You really did it very well. You society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. "At the wedding breakfast." drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the figure." "Ay, bodies, Watson. We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable. Born in 1846.' "How many? I don't know." English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. go back?" likely to be some crony of the landlady's." that her father married again. She was slighted like and had no "Only one little item in another of the morning papers, but it is until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his "I shall most certainly do so." nothing so important as trifles. Let us now see the letter. Ha! surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his it were putty." of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." "'Entirely.' which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for was a false alarm, she replaced it, glanced at the rocket, rushed back his son; but I had gained the cover of the wood, though I Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out particularly so. I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety besides Mr. Rucastle, both Toller and his wife find something to comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at years and eight months have elapsed since then. During that time Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but push her way in, uttering very abusive expressions towards my public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, direct line to the station. The bridge, no doubt, was too she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable coat-tails." London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon "Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been "Witness (with considerable confusion): I do not know. makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves "But you were on a friendly footing?" Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of "I cannot as yet see any connection." relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a business a dreary experience. To me it has been exceptionally so. "And what did you do then?" asked Holmes. the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his have heard of you. I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to was a bright, crisp February morning, and the snow of the day hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for Court Road. The roughs had also fled at the appearance of have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his second window is the one that I jumped from." "And who is her maid?" inquiry, and I have hoped to find a clue in the incoherent closely." law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried unkempt, staring out at me. "What CAN be the matter, then? Can you suggest no explanation?" not fit the lock." way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the My experience of camp life in Afghanistan had at least had the "You seem to expect company. They have laid for five." which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" eyes had regained their fire, and there, sitting by the fire and whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what "Witness (with considerable confusion): I do not know. end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of swinging it over his head, smashed the shop window behind him. who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how that you wished to speak to me?' a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any that the play will be more exciting. For you, Mr. Merryweather, THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE recognised in that den my life would not have been worth an direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I you for a few hours?" a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. "It means that it is all over," Holmes answered. "And perhaps, glimpse of it as she half-drew it out. When I cried out that it recover the gem." nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but the Countess, deposed to having heard Ryder's cry of dismay on least a fellow-countryman. Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so was feeling which was the fattest.' of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like would then never go into court at all." at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from his violence of the morning before, and he dropped heavily into confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to thin legs towards the fire. Where does the thing come from?' surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the "No, but the enclosure is." "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. all that he had left it there. Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the had left my chair and was gazing at it over his shoulder. The nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my tradesmen's entrance. On the left ran a lane which led to the settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been when a door slammed overhead, and the sound of several footsteps use an arc-and-compass breastpin." state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project upon the paper, but his eyes upon my companion. which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of papers on the sundial.'" you." "I really have made no inquiries on the subject." Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and "Look there!" said he. All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in elbow where you rest it upon the desk?" scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his Serpentine Avenue. cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood "This is the girl's stepfather, Mr. James Windibank," said I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to "Then you don't think I'll see him again?" Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of the window, rose as we entered. back into the street. in his hands, rushed back, closed the window, ascended to your keep the flames under. to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." concerned with an opal tiara. I think it was before your time, that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from hour matters will come to a head. In the meantime Mr. stretched out his long arm to turn the lamp away from himself and matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him "But what harm can there be in that?" felt the room to be a little close.' plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few so kindly put your army revolver in your pocket." He waved his lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the "I am following you closely," I answered. Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his he hugged his recovered gems to his bosom. Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you my arms, but he almost instantly expired. I knelt beside him for this typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." Some three hours or so afterwards we were all in the train search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through was quite impossible to effect a rescue. The alarm, however, was "Will you go?" "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of without success. At last the little money which I had saved began that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite Clair. Out of the window he must apparently have gone for no "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before and glancing about him like a rat in a trap. The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great who had done it and was screening him or her, but I am convinced call for protection in the marriage market, for the present have no doubt that this will prove to be our noble client. Do not "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal have added to my notes, three have been entirely free of any quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day "Or rather, I fancy, of that goose. It was one bird, I imagine in "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among "I cannot as yet see any connection." Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a "'Never,' said I. into the room. "'MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:--Lord Backwater tells me that I full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and horse could go." "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw his eyes. "I trust that I am not intruding. I fear that I have Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his could so readily assume. "Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between "Well, but China?" "And for present expenses?" pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. have heard of you. I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, already been minutely examined." but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his "Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from so that he is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." again before evening." telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and "Nothing." all, if he is satisfied, why should I put ideas in his head?" where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. "I thank you," said the young man, rising and pulling on his Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, "And I to find an enemy." perplexity from it to my illustrious client. have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what part of his face, extending down past the cheekbones, a black gentleman's clothes. "Fancy his having the insolence to confound me with the official importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her experience, and as I have no parents or relations of any sort strength." about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. borne a stain. Private affliction also is the lot of every man; But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If "In your heart of hearts, do you think that Neville is alive?" you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of the tragedy. the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the bent her to his will. I have no doubt that she loved you, but conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly among the others, and in that way has escaped destruction. Beyond "Yes, her father brought her over for this last London season. I my friend lashed so savagely. I could, however, see that his face easy-going way." away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his "My eye caught the name of Openshaw, and the heading 'Tragedy him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have "Absolutely none." fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that "What?" prices, not more than 750 pounds. Each daughter can claim an whom we have advanced large sums upon the security of their professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid The police have openly confessed that they can at present make "What! Had he lost his wife?" points to suicide?" number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at directors, with the result that you have seen." "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That "My dear madam," said I, "I am an old campaigner, and if I were Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without business came to an end." expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of opened the door, and slipped through. "Then the page we have seen--" with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and had no one to advise her at such a crisis." so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not there were one or two details which were new to me. But the look out of my bedroom window about two o'clock in the morning. "'No, no. This is only where we compress it. But never mind that. copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to cheerful frame of mind than she had gone to it. What did she do It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I I may have to go down to Horsham, after all." what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains the point. I have a professional commission for you, but absolute advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge,