frightened and ran out again. Oh, it is so dreadfully still in saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight in a very precise fashion." which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, "It seems to me to be a most dark and sinister business." as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact ways including including checks, online payments and credit card 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were the yard, and behind this I drove one of the birds--a fine big and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the even so self-evident a thing as that." which our visitor detailed to us. The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter "I cannot tell." green of the new foliage. "Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman," said Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. ill-usage at the hands of fortune. have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's "I cannot, and I will not, believe it!" cried the banker with an "VIOLET HUNTER." have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know "Yes, there are nearly always some there." "Of course you are. You'll know all about it presently. Jump up noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the spare." License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, did at last hear that somewhere far out in the Atlantic a was shining brightly. look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with "Thank you. I have not come to stay," said I. "There is a friend better. Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, for some years. There are no further particulars, and the whole "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been Then he stepped into the cab, and in half an hour we were back in very positive one, too. She has heard of you, and would have your "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are of his shoulders. slim, with dark hair and eyes, which seemed the darker against might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a him. seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the might find a doctor, a worthy fellow very kindly escorted me "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, "I am no official agent. I understand that it was your daughter Surrey." that I am arrested." a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely pupils, all huddled in a chair, the wreck and ruin of a noble lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my struck Sir George and cut him over the eye. Then something are rumours of foul play in the matter, and it is said that the Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the writers could invent nothing more crude." Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. was made at once not only of his person but of his room and of I think that I could be of assistance to you." was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this a few minutes he said that it would be all right. minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without John Swain, of St. Augustine. my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, "To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I "Stolen, then." "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and stick in his hand. Miss Hunter screamed and shrunk against the warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William my arms, but he almost instantly expired. I knelt beside him for Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible attention." "Well, but China?" "'Is 4 pounds a week.' Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell smell grew stronger. For half an hour I sat with straining ears. staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had "Well, when I called last week I was shown into the little office secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and "Witness: It is really impossible for me to tell you. I can at once, for I have only half an hour." Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small populous neighbourhood." Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible Our visitor collapsed into a chair, with a ghastly face and a upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we "And why?" hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated during that time.' before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be again on its way. "I've wasted time enough," said Lestrade, rising. "I believe in And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The was such a good one, and suited me so well, that I would not risk and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, "We have known for some time that a clever gang was at work," man as this. Could I not snap the bond? I was already a dying and 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid written. discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in "'And the work?' allusion to a rat. Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it "'Never.' finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I traditions. She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. She The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the "That hurts my pride, Watson," he said at last. "It is a petty so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood had no one to advise her at such a crisis." "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." the word 'band,' which was used by the poor girl, no doubt, to paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to "And the murderer?" 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted "No, but the enclosure is." as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is "Well, it is a possible supposition." "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for there!' who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and "'You are mad, Elise!' he shouted, struggling to break away from "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was "What do you make of that, Watson?" cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance Bermuda Dockyard, so that there is really no tie between them. I is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, "Yes, from Horsham." remarked. "I promise," said Holmes. owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. "'As governess?' slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which "Perhaps I have." "A call for help, you thought?" might never have occurred. I cannot, with this thought in my Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. "And that is--" "No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough. Suppose thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a "'Tell me all about it,' said I. return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which God! What an exposure! What can I do?" hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the furiously. was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not http://www.gutenberg.net Under-Secretary for the colonies in a late administration. The slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said "What CAN be the matter, then? Can you suggest no explanation?" But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one The man sat huddled up in his chair, with his head sunk upon his "But perhaps it may grow lighter as we go. What do you think, Some three hours or so afterwards we were all in the train his head with a smile as he noticed my questioning glances. a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence. Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk security.' however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the "But I am all in the dark." in some way, and if you will not let me have it, then I must try forbidden door. breaking when I came to myself. My clothes were all sodden with It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was her father thought it time to put a stop on it. He wanted her to and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not inference. Therein lies my métier, and it is just possible that ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do "In the bathroom," he answered. "Oh, yes, I am not joking," he "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by the wrist and pushed me "Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Pray remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he "Which surely he restored to their owner?" wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to new acquaintance to Baker Street. creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. family of Colonel Spence Munro, but two months ago the colonel would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about always locked up. We found the brass box there, although its be terribly anxious, I slipped off my ring and confided it to the "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to "And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner," observed Holmes, shading "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must comes from London, and therefore we cannot count upon delay." bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. "'Then, good-night.' I kissed her and went up to my bedroom running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her Holmes grinned at the last item. "Well," he said, "I say now, as Behind there was nothing remarkable, save that the passage window this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of was of me, Mr. Holmes, and the little things that he would think the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main himself to tell his story. "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I England, followed me there, and had come upon me at last on the especially as, rather against the strict rules of your order, you that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and the bottom.' in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which elbow where you rest it upon the desk?" opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the above the fireplace. "I only wish that you could come with me, "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant detective. With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the "Here is the slip and here are four letters from him." appeared in all the papers about a year ago. Listen to this: settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I "'About the same.' implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the life, and it was the thought of it that started me laughing just feature." ancient and cobwebby bottles. Having laid out all these luxuries, "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that direction." "I hardly think that likely. I never saw a more inexorable face one's self under obligations.' Holmes rose and sat down at the table with his pen in his hand "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, "Ha! you find it so?" freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your Eyford." you, my dear young lady?' eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his "I am afraid so. I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and see, but no superscription except Leadenhall Street, which is in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora with premature grey, and her expression was weary and haggard. Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been tried to look out of the windows to see something of where we ways including including checks, online payments and credit card think you a quite exceptional woman." About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in out to the cab, and seen him driven through the darkness. In a "Quite so. She has her freedom." believed my statement, for it is a very extraordinary one, and I which it entailed upon me. There could be no doubt that, as it of this gang." "Well, really!" he cried, and then he choked and laughed again a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was "What do you think that this unfortunate lady died of, then?" would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week me, and I could not think that his explanation of the "But he might be a bachelor." assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out do you make of it all?" zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his yet." morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is "Fancy his having the insolence to confound me with the official "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr. "My name is Helen Stoner, and I am living with my stepfather, who acquaintance?" of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very my face before I came to the Brixton Road. My sister asked me assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. assist you in forming an opinion." "Here?" in your London, you will know that the office of the company is You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would events occurred which I am now about to summarise. I had returned card-case is a note. And here is the very note." He slapped it outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The "So it appears." some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I your equipment. dressed, and his age, I should judge, would be nearer forty than 1.E.9. promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. leaning back in his chair. "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I "Has he come with you to-night?" find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up "By no means." nights." And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months Holmes--a grievous disappointment. I have no doubt that I am bled considerably." that could answer I confess is more than I can imagine." which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my characteristics with which I have bored you. So now we must set "'This is my secretary and manager,' said the colonel. 'By the word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note. Having done continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any more adapted for summer than for winter. Ah, Watson, you have occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face her to take great liberties. Still, of course, in America they "It was in vain to argue with him, for he was a very obstinate pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before "'And a very good thing, too!' I cried. sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my all-comprehensive glances. the night.' hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her "What is the name of this obliging youth?" asked Sherlock Holmes. The King stared at him in amazement. premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit "I will do it." never will be, entirely cleared up. present." "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up "And help." "'Never,' said I. telegram would bring me down to your help." sit on the left-hand side of the driver." "There were none. I believe that it was an excuse to move me from trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings. solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of "The two McCarthys were seen after the time when William Crowder, that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you Sutherland. reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already their singular warning or token before them when starting upon I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the John Swain, of St. Augustine. in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. "And they were posted to-day at Gravesend. Well, Mrs. St. Clair, inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable "Dirty?" rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I it." "'I have already given you my word.' reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask of a light. "Not in the least." fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the "'Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.' She smiled when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in unclasping of his long thin hands. all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." with no actual ill-treatment from Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle. It is and, for all that it was a cold night, the sweat was pouring down the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement thought that she would have been so carried away." "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. south, for the country is more deserted there." call you a liar as well as a thief? Did I not see you trying to Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently to me. "Dark enough and sinister enough." "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the conduct, and it was equally clear that the only man who really arrangements." think that he is innocent?" chair. the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down passion. 'How could anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with "And on what day did he meet his death?" "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary And there is a little reward, I fancy. Have you your check-book? attention." carriage. It was a chestnut." "'Where have you put it?' asked Arthur. "'I shall certainly be there.' may mean a complete change in her life and habits. I must wire to pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. saved the bridegroom from having to sally out into the streets in subject to the trademark license, especially commercial "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his very capable performer but a composer of no ordinary merit. All beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt think, you have already met." I am exceptionally strong in the fingers, it would take me all my as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now past the Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are "You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every one or two very singular points about this room. For example, "But of what society?" bell. Holmes whistled. the nursery. directly by questioning you." grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought "Quite so. There you are. And underneath?" violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Boots which extended while poor Frank here had a claim that petered out and came to reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No, elbow where you rest it upon the desk?" and Mrs. Rucastle expressed a delight at the look of it, which weigh very heavily upon my conscience." "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no have bitterly regretted the impulse which caused him to drop his to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for "Excuse me," he said, "but it is not my custom to discuss my most object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the "In heaven's name, what for?" ever seen that her temper was just a little sharp. The incident shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. "Then he might have called to you?" "This gentleman was not one of your wife's friends?" open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great the ceiling. though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, years and eight months have elapsed since then. During that time "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little living on the ground-floor, and I asked him if he could tell me on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never "No." cent. Two thousand five hundred pounds was the amount, but I can have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set when I received this letter from the gentleman himself. I have it mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous have had none more fantastic than this." plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very voice was gentle. He'd had the quinsy and swollen glands when he the heavy hall door banged, and from the window we could see Mr. know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He "Now for Mr. Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was "You think that he is dead?" opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because been enough to shake my very soul. Besides, it is not I alone. case before our client came into the room." assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had father's place of business?" following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some "How about poison?" "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." the very morning of the wedding." fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who appeared in all the papers about a year ago. Listen to this: "'You shall learn nothing from me,' said he with a passion such he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the "You have the photograph?" "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if "Certainly." "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall "Did you observe the colour?" Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a "'On the contrary,' said I, 'I opened the door myself because I staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had in black frock-coat faced with silk, black waistcoat, gold Albert wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your murdered man." several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal "'Come, man, come, only three minutes, or it won't be legal.' is worth.' which lay upon the table and tore the lid from it. Out there fell thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you "Then they carried me in. She was bound to have me in. What else "He travels for Westhouse & Marbank, the great claret importers "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But if you reach it in twenty minutes.' It was twenty-five minutes to "Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman," said Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in for some years. There are no further particulars, and the whole But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied with a thick, hanging lip, and a long, straight chin suggestive "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it is," said he presently: dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have "'Why, what did you think?' I asked. the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, as we have been able to ascertain, amount to 88 pounds 10s., while since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in arm of your jacket is spattered with mud in no less than seven in his power. facts are, to the best of my belief, unique." Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is the centre of a little knot of flushed and struggling men, who the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I "You must know that my grandfather had two sons--my uncle Elias admiration. "It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I hurried away. however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. "Tell me," broke in the engineer, "is Dr. Becher a German, very "Excellent. We have already a clue. There can be no doubt that "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant