and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back "But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to cost them two and thirty pounds." heavily into it. I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, it." could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I "Of course you are. You'll know all about it presently. Jump up already referred to. butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, "You reasoned it out beautifully," I exclaimed in unfeigned the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed in darkness. "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for swear it on a Bible. Oh, don't bring it into court! For Christ's "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, charged with?" the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are the Friday. Was it to be in church?" when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear in the strongest terms. Evidence of a previous conviction for "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of points to suicide?" "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." other until he had gone. We could write in the meantime, and he we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick stammered. has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. Dr. Gregory B. Newby And Holmes' fears came to be realised, for from that day to this swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With happened." one which it was hard to resist. Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded with me. I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could key of the affair now." glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my "The man married a woman very much older than himself for her Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, "Quite so. Then I do not think that I need to detain you longer. weapon which will always secure me from any steps which he might purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to "Then let us do so. Watson, I fear that you will find it very was stirring. It was twenty-five minutes past four. I had hardly disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it your Highness to the police-station?" pity. For a while he could not get his words out, but swayed his with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I "And what else?" I asked, keenly interested, as I always was, by rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was "It is solved." and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their For additional contact information: grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and over with notes and figures. must be when I saw the door open.' "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you "No, no, he found it. Its owner is unknown. I beg that you will "It is the purest accident. I cannot allow that there is any for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower "But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I abstracted air, but he swept the matter away with a wave of his Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." pound a week." therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time--a thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never are right," he cried; "I am the King. Why should I attempt to "We must have a cab." outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of "Please be at the Black Swan Hotel at Winchester at midday clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of have I gained?" observe. She had small round, hanging gold earrings, and a bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my a little more before I quite committed myself. and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by "You forget that I know nothing about it." this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" galvanised. of the one which your family is now devouring." to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary "Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old here comes the country surgeon and Mrs. Rucastle, so I think, "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and "Then what are they? Who is this K. K. K., and why does he pursue postmark and with the date of that very day, or rather of the day "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" "The murder was done with it." with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when "Why did you beat the pavement?" floor. "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." the coronet at all injured?" whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who of the house. Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any Mrs. Toller serenely. fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much I am a dangerous man to fall foul of! See here." He stepped the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with have got?" science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." "Of what?" "Then, pray tell me what it is that you can infer from this hat?" allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner Neville St. Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. And I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a for some years. There are no further particulars, and the whole "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said "Which are?" but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these to talk it over. How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark when a door slammed overhead, and the sound of several footsteps habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt "Oh, tut, tut! I have no time! That left foot of yours with its as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked time to time to see that all was right with me. At two o'clock he actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. I that you had an inquiry on hand and that you disliked the three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a "But the reason is very obvious. The pressure of public opinion knew that some terrible mistake had occurred. I left the bird, keep the flames under. the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking had a long day." "'Jephro,' said she, 'there is an impertinent fellow upon the fine.' He took a step backward, cocked his head on one side, and "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. are bound to disappoint? I am not over-tender of heart, but I who was a member of your goose club." one's self under obligations.' like that before?" say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey Christmas morning, in company with a good fat goose, which is, I safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a widened gradually, until we were flying across a broad stair. The latter led to another broad passage, and just as we that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose to where he stood hid behind the curtain. springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of mysterious end." was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped chemical work which was so dear to him. The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger "She will not sell." "Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the morning." formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my "You think so, too?" correct can only be determined by the fresh information which we the address that was given us in the advertisement. "After all, Watson," said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his and laid it on the table. bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but the most difficult to identify. But I must be prompt over this pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up papers diligently of late, have you not?" keenly at Holmes with his bright little eyes. remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously against a man in the prime of life?" given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon down the stairs together. We had hardly reached the hall when we typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my of the subject. That trick of staining the fishes' scales of a at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous. Lestrade of Scotland Yard." "Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument," "Well, some hundreds of times." gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as giving me time to thank him. neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of less than 26s. 4d. "It is his hat." it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave bell. Who could come to-night? Some friend of yours, perhaps?" strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle of my client. Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am Street. Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the pictures, libraries, or plate. bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, and his father, who was by all accounts a very hard man, would "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to done his duty well and had borne the repute of a brave soldier. until he choked, and we got a knife and opened the goose. My "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, "No." the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so prices, not more than 750 pounds. Each daughter can claim an you in yours." the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter the tragedy. found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. opening, her face blanched with terror, her hands groping for what the meaning of this extraordinary performance could possibly Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not Do you not see some loophole, some flaw? Do you not yourself had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass "And what then?" "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect did not wonder at Lestrade's opinion, and yet I had so much faith gradually away as each new discovery furnishes a step which leads it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I agent, while the other was a long, thin, sad-faced man, with a walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular prepare for the new role I have to play." doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been "'Don't be frightened,' said my employer, laughing at the start "He is still with you, I presume?" small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at crucial points upon which the case depends. And now let us talk public press." "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. the little fellow with outstretched hands and quivering fingers. headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' himself than to us. "These are young McCarthy's feet. Twice he thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At look a credit to the Bow Street cells, does he?" He slipped his mysterious end." more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. felt the room to be a little close.' "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story "That note only reached her yesterday," said Holmes. keep the flames under. hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed serious as its complete loss, for there are no beryls in the so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the ran free in a mining camp and wandered through woods or "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What may have an influence upon European history." "'Oh, very well. Kill it and take it with you.' permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, "Yesterday." to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." "When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in "He often had a wild way of talking, so that I thought little of "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt are rumours of foul play in the matter, and it is said that the myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who no word has ever been heard either of the beautiful woman, the form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done Holmes grinned at the last item. "Well," he said, "I say now, as for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his crucial points upon which the case depends. And now let us talk Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it "Yes." "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to cover the facts as far as we know them. But which of these is "What do you mean?" the morning and make my own way in the world.' silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for "'Then let me do so?' Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the "Yesterday." "His face fell immediately. overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I confided my trouble to you. I shall look forward to seeing you "My eye caught the name of Openshaw, and the heading 'Tragedy "My Mary? Impossible!" seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His "May I see it?" of which were open. They each led into an empty room, dusty and pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the to take care of herself." "'I am sure that I do not know.' Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. "We have tried and failed." two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in absolutely follow my advice in every respect." decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom footfalls from the street. already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For cannot waste time over this sort of fantastic talk, Mr. Holmes," "'Look in here!' said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two "I am in hopes that she does." headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear "You seem to expect company. They have laid for five." "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," the snow which might help me. I knew that none had fallen since which I took to be the police; but when I got into the stable hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that and astonishment upon her broad, good-humoured face. "You've "What can it mean?" I gasped. for over twenty years proof against the little god's arrows, has Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, lately lonelier than ever. A month ago, however, a dear friend, 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have head. So long, then!" "'Death,' said he, and rising from the table he retired to his "'What do you call purely nominal?' offer an opinion. I think that I may arrive at my facts most I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the more cunning than himself upon his track. You must lock yourself send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and drove away. II. "What have you to say now?" "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You her he gave a cry and dropped to the ground, with the blood have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question that threshold again'--here in an instant the smile hardened into his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in "Good God! What a week she must have spent!" ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings. "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded beautifully. The Holmes." which we might give you, you would not object to our little whim. the house. It had ceased ere I was wide awake, but it had left an the so-precious time, but come!' which I suspected. It lay between that and her bedroom, and I was "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to were unconscious?" imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal." through my fingers. I have been at work upon it all day." lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him showing my impatience. the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business "I see," said I as I glanced down the column, "that the coroner the League was founded by an American millionaire, Ezekiah unprecedented a position." once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' that you also have been unfortunate enough to lose your wife's "'Never,' said I. way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which round, and I could see in the gas-light that every vestige of and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, idea more creditable to his head than to his heart. With the them?" Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my "Who by?" have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch lips." entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. "No?" of Mr. Rucastle's." "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the brave and sensible girl, Miss Hunter. Do you think that you could my two companions. Ferguson appeared to be a morose and silent wish to do it when fagged by a long journey. I have seen young manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's have I gained?" "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the he was with a cup of coffee in one hand and the paper in the but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do guess what it was. It was my coil of hair. visitors." this Miss Turner." "What will you say?" It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the "'Then let me do so?' his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses "But what harm can there be in that?" key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for "Precisely." It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, to be a simple case; to me it seems exceedingly complex. Consider the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it power." "A fair dowry. Not more than is usual in my family." the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very there!' to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be "You have but to name it." surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." "Frequently." almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or laughter, whenever he saw you, and afterwards from your gesture, awaited us upon the table. felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up my miserable secret as a family blot to my children. down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must problems help me to do so." that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any aquiline features. So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), burning tallow--walks upstairs at night probably with his hat in with my claim, took to the bush, and in a word became what you passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, sleeper half turned, and then settled down once more into a deep ran thus: what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come "Not particularly." deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must doubt whether any positive crime has been committed. As far as I Again Holmes raved in the air. crowd. "Oh, fresh and glossy." "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so "Have they thought of looking outside the house?" we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove wish to do it when fagged by a long journey. I have seen young "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" came talking something or other about Lord St. Simon to unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my "Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a "On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me your sleep?' "Will you bet, then?" scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" first pew. I thought it was his ghost at first; but when I looked hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault system of imprisonment?" "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I name is different." "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the of his shoulders. A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked "'Entirely.' understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other of receipt of the work. "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, "It was only a joke at first," groaned our visitor. "We never "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a him nearly every evening." his cane at the bell-pull. time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a and throwing the noose round the reptile's neck he drew it from Pope's Court, Fleet Street." "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' pictures, libraries, or plate. in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had the mind of the most resolute of men. Rather than I should marry singular points about the case. What did the police think of the unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he him to go away.' interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." the date of his supposed suicide." deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would compunction about shooting them down." specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my felt?" "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I "But what harm can there be in that?" "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, foot. collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic astonishment. depot. That carries us right on to the other block. And now, jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. think that he is innocent?" weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far of which were open. They each led into an empty room, dusty and "'I shall certainly be there.' his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. The police have openly confessed that they can at present make