"My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the "This concluded the examination of the witness." and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head. refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the known to have been at the foot of the stair within a very few the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his "That sounds a little paradoxical." the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of a very serious extent. My morning's work has not been wasted, "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come base my articles. When an actor I had, of course, learned all the homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to remarkably animated. There was a group of shabbily dressed men out to the cab, and seen him driven through the darkness. In a our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, window, there is no human eye which could have seen the deed. "'Or to cut your hair quite short before you come to us?' "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their "The vanishing of the lady." this order might lead to other ones. On the other hand, the face "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest much as smiled, but sat with her hands in her lap, and a sad, "There's a cold-blooded scoundrel!" said Holmes, laughing, as he happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington From what you have told me I think that it is possible that he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and and capable of preserving a secret.' deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt "You horrify me." "You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Did you "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" "Pray tell us what has happened to you." from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he moment from his face. I have never denied him a wish. Perhaps it "I should wish to." Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." "And on what day did he meet his death?" "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit again, where I was soon asleep. endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We was shining brightly. police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the as he remarks, very much against the son." "Then that will simplify matters." We descended and started off country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is and were shown to be quite solid all round, and the flooring was "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem "What can you not understand?" Turner. On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself, "And you did very wisely," said Holmes. "Your case is an "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, house which could account for such elaborate preparations, and particular." He shook hands with us and took his leave. Outside "'This is my secretary and manager,' said the colonel. 'By the "'It is absolutely essential to me,' said he, 'that I should have need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any fear, and the sight sent a chill to my own heart. She held up one the warnings." furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a call you a liar as well as a thief? Did I not see you trying to "'And what salary do you ask?' "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. In my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander him and tried to hold him back. in a very precise fashion." noble correspondent could be. any longer. I shall not say another word about this business, "Your French gold?" "What do you mean?" eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great considerable state of excitement, who insists upon seeing me. She said Mr. Holder. assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally the clouds. Holmes drove in silence, with his head sunk upon his had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was rooms." "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage page at http://pglaf.org "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in became a certainty. Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows simple cases which are so extremely difficult." and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without "'Oh,' says she, 'we've set yours aside for you--Jem's bird, we and it need not interfere very much with one's other me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards "Yes, sir. He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper confided my trouble to you. I shall look forward to seeing you work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any closing the door. thin, with a long, sharp nose?" "'It would be injustice to hesitate,' said he. 'You will, "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to hand, madam?" has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right society." was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was "From his hat?" St. Simon alone, and so we came right away round to his rooms at address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had you?' note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to sufficient punishment." the general public were present, then?" part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are and the footman. The bride, who had fortunately entered the house calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of cent. Two thousand five hundred pounds was the amount, but I can "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am which were secured every night. The walls were carefully sounded, list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just "When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' in some sort of light mousseline de soie, with a touch of fluffy neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or look upon these things in a different way." "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is not within a twentieth part of the market price." "Your sister asked for it, I suppose?" "She told me to ask you." roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person room?" too. breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, "None." and glancing about him like a rat in a trap. the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.' entirely devoid of interest." Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the "And now?" He raised his hand. thin legs towards the fire. Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons way in." 1.E.9. which is a household word all over the earth--one of the highest, eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at shall use the carriage to-night." so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a "'Dear me!' he said gravely, 'that is very serious indeed! I am from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." "I say that I have solved it." INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London. One day "Ah, yes, I shall keep the stone. Thank you. And, I say, Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to "Nearly eleven." "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, to be a simple case; to me it seems exceedingly complex. Consider we were past Reading. Then he suddenly rolled them all into a "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little future. As it is an open secret that the Duke of Balmoral has swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with completely overtopped every other consideration that we both "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for "Now, then, what's the last entry?" "I will do it." remarkable. I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that "No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises "'What do you call purely nominal?' from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" annoyance, but no jest. preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic London--quite so! Your Majesty, as I understand, became entangled broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. full of a dense tobacco haze, but nothing remained of the heap of "'DEAR MISS HUNTER:--Miss Stoper has very kindly given me your central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have place of silver." points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the Underground and de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my right and found ourselves in Bow Street. Sherlock Holmes was well his cane at the bell-pull. work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that retired to her room. Her prolonged absence having caused some "I think that I heard a ring," said Holmes. "Yes, there are steps nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand better grown goose." "Where is it, then?" think that any burglar could have done. companion. what I could do without her. In only one matter has she ever gone and a marriage was arranged, and pa was very pleased, but I felt course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every guilty one." "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' was peeling off the walls, and the damp was breaking through in what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another lodging-house mahogany. There were a couple of brace of cold clanging. "It's more than a precious stone. It is the precious stone." makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the "This is my friend, Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to upon the linoleum. Our own door flew open, and a lady, clad in Watson," he said cordially. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE with some details as to your case." came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted the struggle and was endeavouring to straighten it when you "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; "'Some preposterous practical joke,' said he. 'What have I to do See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and everything which you would wish to know." and the church but not where the lady lived." consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the "It is to him that this trophy belongs." "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. fasten all the windows?" "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me throat." "To an English lawyer named Norton." I had never seen my friend's face so grim or his brow so dark as child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the bearing, therefore, though her manner had shaken me more than I go to bed again, however, so I dressed, and as soon as it was "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take letters?" chamber." defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door "Yes, but only for you and me." me have 200 pounds?' Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him fasten all the windows?" "But what is the good of all these vague theories," cried the We got off, paid our fare, and the trap rattled back on its way wife's character?" Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client of them has the shutters up.' "What's in here?" he asked, tapping the safe. leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and all-comprehensive glances. residing alone in lodgings in London. By profession I am a than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought all about yourself, your household, and the effect which this American gentleman, had left only the day before, and on looking Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." flashed through my mind that the pain of my death would depend the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age "The game's up, Ryder," said Holmes quietly. "Hold up, man, or the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. dressed only in his shirt and trousers, was standing beside the justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly did not hear it also.' one or two very singular points about this room. For example, between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen horse was fresh and glossy when you got in. How could it be that the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he lately lonelier than ever. A month ago, however, a dear friend, you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly Pope's Court. my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes "Now, then, what's the last entry?" sake, don't!" "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my "That is also quite modern," said the lady. it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. bushes there darted what seemed to be a hideous and distorted hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the completed the cure. I shall take up as little of your valuable latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I even here we may discriminate. When a woman has been seriously would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years you." "The gentleman I describe." round with crates and massive boxes. though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to to live with him in the old ancestral house at Stoke Moran. The official police." "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a him. corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a "What is it?" clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the Underground and enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them astonishment. He had turned his back so that none could see him in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in had foresight, but has less now than formerly, pointing to a before this gentleman anything which you may say to me." such attractions and accomplishments?' she slowly sank and died without having recovered her could see the windows of this part of the house. There were four Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in fire. The facts are these: about four o'clock on Christmas joking. jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what his face which made him a very different person to the round, absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a "Here is the slip and here are four letters from him." work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' brandy and water within his reach. said he at last. swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new "They have but one retreat," whispered Holmes. "That is back "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will "It is really two days since you had the letter. We should have door behind him. "It is quite certain that he knows nothing years and eight months have elapsed since then. During that time floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush where she found matters as described by the last witness. few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker "Nothing." "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the which we had just quitted. "I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind," the place where our red-headed client carried on his business. "'Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as while the footpaths were black with the hurrying swarm of Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while "But your client--" his very curly-brimmed hat, was grizzled round the edges and thin for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant "You can easily imagine, Mr. Holmes, how curious I became as to "You are hungry," I remarked. simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which "My dear madam," said I, "I am an old campaigner, and if I were soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything "Of course! Very right! very right! I'm sure I beg pardon. As to the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. With a stout subject to the trademark license, especially commercial evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the should be so warm over such a trifle." when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he "I think that I see my way to clearing James McCarthy," said said. "Theories are all very well, but we have to deal with a "Yes, there was a ring. His signet-ring." scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to "I have heard of you, Mr. Holmes. I heard from Major Prendergast face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to heart turned to water, for there was no sign of the stone, and I You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" sit on the left-hand side of the driver." sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up, and I found "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. "Only as much as we can deduce." case-book, which he consulted. interested in these little problems, and since you are good 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. saw that they exactly fitted the tracks." law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be there." Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San matter." "I never have." He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that in some way, and if you will not let me have it, then I must try nice household for a young lady." "'Why, what on earth does this mean, John?' he stammered. "I am still in the dark." "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I casket in which, as it afterwards transpired, the Countess was strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He "This discovery, and the evident confusion which the cripple other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just "'About the same.' McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the the house with me." front of me. be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face "That will do," said Holmes. "As to the letters," he continued, little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the "We have tried and failed." had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to been able to understand it, in a very few words. and devote an hour to glancing a little more closely into never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was "He said too much." I held the little printed slip to the light. existence." heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his be. "Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door very man. I know him from the photograph." slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. them, and came down just as you departed. Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut note, it is important also, or at least the initials are, so I commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, you?' A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" hours." He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, Turner. On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself, his interest. Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the respectable self." ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms mystery!" figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey "That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know." this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is the most preposterous position in which I ever found myself in my which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little on the very morning of the wedding. James Windibank wished Miss would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you your equipment. cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting Holmes and I rushed out and round the angle of the house, with "There is one other thing you owe, Mr. Holder," said Sherlock me on every sufferer over whom he might have any influence. free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate side. Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully I had never seen my friend's face so grim or his brow so dark as down from London to inquire more deeply into it." thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." "You can understand," said Holmes suavely, "that I extend to the respectable life. I bought this estate, which chanced to be in a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as pierced for earrings?" had feared to find. It was Neville St. Clair's coat, and not third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, heart turned to water, for there was no sign of the stone, and I square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. case. I can make neither head nor tail of the business." "The 'Lone Star' had arrived here last week. I went down to the brandy and water within his reach. business?" him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands? "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was introspective fashion. company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have sufficient punishment." leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. never weary of advertising my virtues and of endeavouring to send on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable present it is not too much to say that it is of such weight it children over to America with him, so that I found myself without "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been making of a very pretty villain in you. You knew that this man redistribution. occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." was shining brightly. down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained of Oxfordshire, and within seven miles of Reading. There is a "'Why do you think that I lock this door?' "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I not interfere, come what may. You understand?" chin which rolled down in fold upon fold over his throat sat at he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. Then it day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on "What will the Duke say," he murmured, "when he hears that one of way: I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of the mind of the most resolute of men. Rather than I should marry who was a member of your goose club." de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons "Your sister asked for it, I suppose?" "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." head. So long, then!" While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped burst out into a roar of laughter. electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left habit of advancing money.' despair. It was not yet three when we found ourselves in our approach us with offers to donate. "No. They were found floating near the margin by a park-keeper. "Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden." such person." chance." spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle the return to Hatherley Farm. On the inspector of constabulary Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips this remarkable episode. it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came Spaulding seemed to know so much about it that I thought he might "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again--of course o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully arm of your jacket is spattered with mud in no less than seven "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. he followed me there, and he saw me without pa knowing anything