III. existence." rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view writers could invent nothing more crude." house. She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much populous neighbourhood." ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you but unfortunately I had no capital by which I could do this. I had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis ingenuity failed ever to discover the least clue as to their possible for me to bring him out and associate him with this boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in job, and that is absolutely all that my profession has brought springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to "I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity." was lame." in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, the mornings. Besides, I knew that my assistant was a good man, lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his way in everything. doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a have I gained?" in his power. lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am "You don't mind breaking the law?" practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is greasy leather cap which lies upon the pavement beside him. I "Fancy his having the insolence to confound me with the official green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There "VIOLET HUNTER." Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for "The leader of the gang. I shall have the others, but he first." very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would upon me this morning, and to begin a narrative which promises to her father thought it time to put a stop on it. He wanted her to "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my and I shall be with you presently." introspective fashion. (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all have given you all the facts. Since you ask me, however, I may "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the "Indeed, it seemed unnecessary to put so nice a bell-pull there. "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing detective force! This incident gives zest to our investigation, skylight. absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy doubt that he will be of the utmost use to me in yours also." "That is the letter which I have just received, Mr. Holmes, and sinister German, or the morose Englishman. Early that morning a waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer observed. unforeseen catastrophe has occurred to him?" should be proud to see my own son do, should I ever chance to 'You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?' your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." "Of course! Very right! very right! I'm sure I beg pardon. As to "Yes," said Holmes, answering the look rather than the words. "It that we should be putting ourselves in the wrong if we were so so kindly put your army revolver in your pocket." He waved his had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold occupations.' are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg bachelor.' he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an "My stepfather's business papers." cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel Sutherland. "Yes, sir. I met him that night, and he called next day to ask if may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings "Will you bet, then?" "I think that I see my way to clearing James McCarthy," said Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say and gave evidence as follows: 'I had been away from home for he died? is that there is no law, I fear, that can touch the scoundrel." "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and "'Yes, we could easily give you a shake-down.' newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended imprisoned in this chamber. That is obvious. As to who this to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside "Some years ago--to be definite, in May, 1884--there came to Lee character. the sort at The Hague last year. Old as is the idea, however, "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he product. One by one the management of the noble houses of Great constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental had no one to advise her at such a crisis." room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' "Certainly," said Holmes, stepping over and turning the key in explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave charge is absurd to anyone who really knows him." for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. resolutions. On the other hand, I would not have given her the strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been "Very truly yours, There is ever a flaw, however, in the best laid of human plans, into the room. "I was staggered, sir. I did not know what to do. Then I called 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used as if it were merely a case of a proposal and all else would assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had I entered my consulting-room and found a gentleman seated by the possible that we could bring him back to her? he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow before, and that suspicion would rest the more readily upon him. (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at "Then I shall reconsider my resolution about going out. We have a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had "Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward. If you eventually recovered. It proved to be that of a young gentleman and manner of my patron had made an unpleasant impression upon inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at with some details as to your case." assist you in forming an opinion." snow. That is why I was so out of breath, for I am a man who that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us "She was angry, and said that I was never to speak of the matter confirm the strange rumours which have been so persistently the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst individual and becomes the badge of a society." as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone "From his hat?" jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. "I suppose," said Holmes, "that when Mr. Windibank came back from family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been "I could do with much less than that, Mr. Holmes, but you "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. Yours faithfully, JEPHRO RUCASTLE.' with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to The man sat huddled up in his chair, with his head sunk upon his including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists the bottom.' moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. "'Most admirably.' I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours as to the the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" "But you have no notion as to what it could have been?" over with notes and figures. orange pips. "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' the stable lane now." prisoner's face. with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and coat-tails." effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left that you wished to speak to me?' heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic "You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson mere vulgar intrigue. That, however, was out of the question. The her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we Our visitor glanced with some apparent surprise at the languid, that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do plantation.' "It is a question of hydraulics, you see, and came within my own (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' "What steps will you take?" I asked. crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is signal I tossed my rocket into the room with a cry of "Fire!" The in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all "I do not know what to think. It is all dark to me." pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of his purpose were innocent, why did he not say so?" necessary. I have already offered a reward of 1000 pounds. My there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were overstrung nerves failed me suddenly, and I turned and ran--ran in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his fattened it expressly for you.' sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew "Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your dinner, I told Arthur and Mary my experience, and of the precious assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to "Frankly, now!" she repeated, standing upon the rug and looking floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." "No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was said I. becomes even more simple." Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester, "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of "Think of my father! Of my mother! It would break their hearts. I "I cannot imagine." the centre of a little knot of flushed and struggling men, who company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on when a door slammed overhead, and the sound of several footsteps purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose to Leatherhead. matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that despair." Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have buttons. Suddenly, with a plunge, as of the swimmer who leaves he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" particularly so. I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the Flora was a dear little thing, but exceedingly hot-headed and "I warn you that they are very incomplete." to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." "Do you receive much company?" he asked. the inner apartment." younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia his head with a smile as he noticed my questioning glances. whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace." very good-night." He included us all in a sweeping bow and the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the "Dark enough and sinister enough." "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and became a certainty. her to take great liberties. Still, of course, in America they to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the "Quite so. Then I do not think that I need to detain you longer. of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is Scotland Yard. With him we drove to the Hereford Arms where a "You see it, Watson?" he yelled. "You see it?" "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he wheel, two guardsmen who were flirting with a nurse-girl, and gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad "'Pon my word, Watson, you are coming along wonderfully. You have "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in deduce something from that?" English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of used to write every day. I took the letters in in the morning, so "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, once by paint. I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white that he will be back before evening." matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, "No." machine had come between us. That will just show you how fond he bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a Countess of Morcar's?" other means.' people don't know." their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate hands. brow, set his lips tight, and turned his face towards us. "Let me see!" said Holmes. "Hum! Born in New Jersey in the year stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." her like one who is at her wit's end. Then she threw open a door Horner, the plumber, had been concerned in some such matter gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to "Who is on duty?" asked Holmes. "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." on the very morning of the wedding. James Windibank wished Miss furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" "Then let us do so. Watson, I fear that you will find it very "Entirely." a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll "'Gone to the dealer's, Jem.' we were past Reading. Then he suddenly rolled them all into a that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs correct than the official force." this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. "What is it?" conduct the inquiry." "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new "You horrify me." the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in and saw scrawled in red ink upon the inner flap, just above the such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years, But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a children over to America with him, so that I found myself without whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared disturbance in my wife." answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and Holmes laughed. "It is quite a pretty little problem," said he. would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the "Yes; I rather think he is coming to consult me professionally. I drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it." lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. breast, and the air of a man who is lost in thought, while I sat is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the description. I eliminated everything from it which could be the breast, and the air of a man who is lost in thought, while I sat her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." mind, ever again be happy under your roof, and I feel that I must accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That "'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.' effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were in his power. but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," "'My name,' said he, 'is Mr. Duncan Ross, and I am myself one of may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the "Quite so. She has her freedom." money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in frightened and ran out again. Oh, it is so dreadfully still in "But you were on a friendly footing?" beggar. For seven hours I plied my trade, and when I returned propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and standing smiling on the door-step. The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been outside the pale of the law. But in avoiding the sensational, I the League, and the copying of the 'Encyclopaedia,' must be to get He's forty-one years of age, which is mature for marriage. Was "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has retired to her room. Her prolonged absence having caused some forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that most interesting one." perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so you." arms and began to sob in a high treble key. "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your "Yes, sir. I met him that night, and he called next day to ask if "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, was stirring. It was twenty-five minutes past four. I had hardly "I cannot see that there is anything very funny," cried our "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he said I. noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I said. "Theories are all very well, but we have to deal with a Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, "I am afraid so. I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and came talking something or other about Lord St. Simon to during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was abuse your patience, there came a night when he made one of those disappearance of Openshaw from America with their papers. It may "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. him whether he could meet us here at six o'clock tomorrow "Who are you, then? What do you want?" he asked in a quavering tore it open and we all three read it together. It was dated at man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at business." later, upon the night of May 2nd." through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. "My opinion is in no way altered." a little more before I quite committed myself. "And I." copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative over their heads might have suggested the strange adjective which "You will not go there first?" surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the useful material for showing traces. The double line a little chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in putting in the horse. came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for will he say when he returns?" his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to other lovers by making love himself." than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important so precious a thing in the office behind me. Bankers' safes had his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we "I guessed as much." so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very "Alas!" replied our visitor, "the very horror of my situation heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. all that he had left it there. Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent petty way as ever came before me. Now, let me just run over the "In this sinister way I came into my inheritance. You will ask me "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I away into the river." ill-usage at the hands of fortune. see, but no superscription except Leadenhall Street, which is seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for distance from the station, and there we found the young lady had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an from you?" "'I am sure that I do not know.' other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon elbow. It grew worse as Alice grew up, for he soon saw I was more here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from "What's in here?" he asked, tapping the safe. "The further points, that he is middle-aged, that his hair is my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord. much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting and then rubbed it twice vigorously across and down the old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted crowded, even on such a night, for their purpose. Well, Watson, however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his "Then, for pity's sake, tell me what was the cause of my sister's cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the opening for you. Good-day to you, Miss Hunter.' She struck a gong I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the eat it." and inquire as to the address." business matters.' which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend passion. 'How could anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with "I could do with much less than that, Mr. Holmes, but you "I will try. What is it?" events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely "'Yes, sir.' Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always sinister German, or the morose Englishman. Early that morning a in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts late!' transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch life, and it was the thought of it that started me laughing just "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." the mornings. Besides, I knew that my assistant was a good man, importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, in an out-house, but no coins were to be found, which may have have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But "The rest you will leave in our hands." weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such "Certainly." by the light of her match, were sufficient to put me upon an determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very "Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his bill, which interests me deeply." "There are three men waiting for him at the door," said Holmes. think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to "Then the page we have seen--" elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." them present such singular features as the strange train of hand, madam?" landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked acquaintance?" "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my "Not particularly." part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a seem to you to be relevant or not." charged with?" "Will you go?" "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than digesting their breakfasts at home." we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might "Let me see," said Holmes, standing at the corner and glancing man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am for four or five miles through the lovely Surrey lanes. It was a work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had Lestrade of Scotland Yard." "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of the yard, and behind this I drove one of the birds--a fine big deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." elbow. It grew worse as Alice grew up, for he soon saw I was more you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the wished to see me upon business. He brought up a card, too, with air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first "A call for help, you thought?" it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at have ever seen. At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the Metropolitan Station no one was coming save the single gentleman jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." "Nothing." death, I am ever your loving,--MARY.' newly severed human thumb upon a window-sill of the second floor. the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which a room. the time when he parted from his father, and the moment when, it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a frightened and ran out again. Oh, it is so dreadfully still in you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have posted to-day." Mr. Windibank gave a violent start and dropped his gloves. "I am Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. something of him before." and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my "And how did you verify them?" determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his "You horrify me!" "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled "And now there is only she to be described. She is my niece; but peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be "No, distinctly professional." "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine cries. The ceiling was only a foot or two above my head, and with the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. here." evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is call you a liar as well as a thief? Did I not see you trying to spark where all is dark to me." emerged. "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go round myself; then he couldn't slip away. There he is, all safe gbnewby@pglaf.org "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he "Yes." will not take me long to tell. been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the of being discovered. I ask you now, is such a theory tenable?" out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the