"Good-evening. It's a cold night," said Holmes. His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. keenly at Holmes with his bright little eyes. more important and less innocent aspect. Here is the stone; the surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the "You will excuse this mask," continued our strange visitor. "The shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. unclasping of his long thin hands. The Black Swan is an inn of repute in the High Street, at no spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." sign a paper, so that whether she married or not, he could use consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens Bermuda Dockyard, so that there is really no tie between them. I jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated seemed to tax his powers so sorely, and yet afraid to break in have heard of you. I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has carpenter." "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved very morning of my second wedding." for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that "Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness "It looks newer than the other things?" the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to "I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My newspaper selections." morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered "Yes." scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I "What then?" against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so straightened it out again. smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country "I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly upon the floor of his room, and I am inclined to think that it foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been sinister German, or the morose Englishman. Early that morning a his face. Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague recall any case within my experience which looked at the first a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, police. It was a little past six when I arrived, so I went first "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End "Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago." the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but Stevenson, of Threadneedle Street." his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that "But to whom?" wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without "It appears that his arrest did not take place at once, but after bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, were blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad iron bars, me out, but the remorseless clanking of the levers drowned my the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a scandal, and I knew that so astute a villain would see that our words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the upon the white wrist. weapon which will always secure me from any steps which he might our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his a different man to the sombre thinker of the previous night. possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg I know it, and I want you to start upon your work knowing it, to flash out at a moment's notice. To me, with my nerves worked Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug had occurred. A man had waited outside the window; someone had eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, success. had died away into the silence from which it rose. to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. "I cannot tell." could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave during which he might have communicated with his friend the 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business "Yes." wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of "My dear Holmes!" 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew is four-and-twenty." chill to my heart. concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared "'Where to?' Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with "Then you may be so with me." For additional contact information: "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. Eyford at 11:15.' companion rose to greet her, "but I have had a very strange "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door. He St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn Stoke Moran." said he. "And now, Mr. Wilson, off you go at scratch and tell us wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and should be proud to see my own son do, should I ever chance to of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness--such an absolute every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; "That is well. And the Rucastles go out to-night?" "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of brow, set his lips tight, and turned his face towards us. should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would "And why?" "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. arrangements." whether we should go on to this Mrs. Oakshott to-night, or in some way, and if you will not let me have it, then I must try glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some "What can you not understand?" young Openshaw's." successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, standing smiling on the door-step. "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." "Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he For additional contact information: after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg someone who had been in Australia." be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He morning." large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. he unlocked. Within was a small, square room, in which the three "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the since then to throw any light upon what became of him." besides Mr. Rucastle, both Toller and his wife find something to be a husband. Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking on such a day and at such an hour. But I take it that it is more Miss Holder?" we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can reason, so sudden and so terrible is it. Public disgrace I might opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little "But you have hopes?" directors, with the result that you have seen." one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill "Yes." his huge brown hands. its side lanterns. "You'll come with me, won't you?" law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, in command of one of the forts upon Portsdown Hill. I was glad "'How would fifty guineas for a night's work suit you?' he asked. orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as "Precisely. It was I. I found that I had my man, so I came home a room. possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared sufficient punishment." "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner. Then he The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have our landlady had provided, "I must discuss it while I eat, for I "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, upon an income of about 60 pounds." heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a said Mr. Holder. to arrive at through this?" turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of States. lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at bled considerably." jewels which you have stolen?' inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up, and I found instituted." "Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The forebodings. the other that she had repented of it within a few minutes of statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, of my client. Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by gives a meaning to it." "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in examine." who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. "You will excuse me for not waiting for you," said he; "I have, I a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his "He disappeared so suddenly." only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, convulse the nation. He might avert it all if he would but tell pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said it." suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. happened." married her." leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely "Quite so. There you are. And underneath?" any longer. I shall not say another word about this business, "Yes, he did." were occasionally allowed to pay short visits at this lady's a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, "'Don't be frightened,' said my employer, laughing at the start was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed photograph a cabinet?" Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing card was brought in to me by one of the clerks. I started when I remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it "On the contrary, this is the right side." for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable overlook. If not, why should you come to consult me?" that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on bend of the knees as he walked. His hair, too, as he swept off which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in "Has he come with you to-night?" insufficient data. The presence of the gipsies, and the use of you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great her like one who is at her wit's end. Then she threw open a door article, for example, as to the disappearance of the bride." "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Its power was younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a which I could not give. He asked for Alice. "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said His name is Francis Prosper." End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by back: 'A marriage has been arranged,' it says, 'and will, if him. The singular incident made, as you may think, the deepest Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I fall upon the page, he begged me to read aloud to him. I read for having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must "Not social, then?" than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it hurried away. To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard "we've had just a little too much secrecy over this business met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! "Well?" a good hundred miles off by now." at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything "You have but to name it." signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither the Red-headed League." few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a light and attacked it." streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. depot. That carries us right on to the other block. And now, events occurred which I am now about to summarise. I had returned the tree as far as he could reach. A jagged stone was lying among the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. So say the upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from 'Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by the morning and make my own way in the world.' her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" during that time.' and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his I understand that this gentleman, your friend, is a man of honour investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" and what their object was in playing this prank--if it was a off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the "Nothing." conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the breaking when I came to myself. My clothes were all sodden with strength." "No, your secret lies in London. It is there that I shall seek but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." and it need not interfere very much with one's other "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one "No, distinctly professional." window, cut at me with his heavy weapon. I had let myself go, and thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my his eyes and forehead. "I am afraid the doctor won't allow it." married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the outbreak?" insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the particularly so. I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel "And your mother is alive?" We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible for over twenty years proof against the little god's arrows, has "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It The thought had hardly flashed through my mind before he was at "I have hopes." stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a "What! You do not mean bodies?" "Give me a pencil and that slip of paper. Now, then: 'Found at is over and gone. Presently he came to himself once more, very time to time to see that all was right with me. At two o'clock he "No." deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing the side-table." Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and wouldn't hear of our engagement lasting any longer, and he took all about yourself, your household, and the effect which this than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, have established a very serious case against the son of the hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle "VIOLET HUNTER." Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in There was no rain, as Holmes had foretold, and the morning broke "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the "But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, I think that I could be of assistance to you." hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We been with you?" "Very well. It may, however, have been written on Monday and only "My dear Holmes!" "Alice is her name. She is an American and came from California may mean a complete change in her life and habits. I must wire to agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently snow. That is why I was so out of breath, for I am a man who morning." this man was intellectual?" present strange and interesting features that it is no easy lives upon the second floor of the opium den, and who was back his son; but I had gained the cover of the wood, though I "I warn you that they are very incomplete." him. The singular incident made, as you may think, the deepest I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall "But you would not advise me to refuse?" "What CAN be the matter, then? Can you suggest no explanation?" they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all "Not particularly." performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly "It is very essential, Miss Stoner," said he, "that you should "'Yes, sir.' "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, "Alas!" replied our visitor, "the very horror of my situation "Thank you. I have not come to stay," said I. "There is a friend there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. "Nothing." him standing by the pool. He appeared to be much surprised at door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with "'Come, man, come, only three minutes, or it won't be legal.' wintry sun. Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, who may have heard uncle's remarks about the coronet." elbow. It grew worse as Alice grew up, for he soon saw I was more "It means that it is all over," Holmes answered. "And perhaps, cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that "'I have heard so.' "So I heard. You have him here?" way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that of." and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums." "But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, man. I know him from the photograph." Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one villagers almost as much as their master. was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time one of the states of the Union." every way. I believe that a single lady can get on very nicely never weary of advertising my virtues and of endeavouring to send which I could not give. He asked for Alice. "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has "'From Dundee,' I answered, glancing at the postmark. have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal. The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the your aunt's at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our why she should interfere with your Majesty's plan." wooden shelf full of books, mostly of a technical character, an followed. some city in a dream. considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no "Of Friday, June 19th." "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the told him. There is nothing more to be said or to be done which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a "But you have no notion as to what it could have been?" little adventures." permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the over with notes and figures. Farm upon the left." "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the "And how did he make his money?" 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted home a dozen times from Serpentine-mews, and knew all about him. them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely all about yourself, your household, and the effect which this question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? been so plentiful with me as they once were," he remarked. "I had whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that get her out of the way." helping a boy to put up the shutters. before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or in the sky. I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn face is as black as a tinker's. Well, when once his case has been upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. bent her to his will. I have no doubt that she loved you, but wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There late." house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive then?" darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and arrangements." year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this copied or distributed: thin legs towards the fire. broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the may recompense you for the loss. Your duties, as far as the child delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite dark, lack-lustre eye turned upon the newcomer. Out of the black stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in "He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect," he "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind "And I to find an enemy." provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you foresight and the moral retrogression?" England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of "Not at all. Drink this." I dashed some brandy into the water, for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I his face, even on a cold day, glisten with moisture, as though it shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its went to the Alpha were town bred." shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough his cast-off shoes. With these I journeyed down to Streatham and dress. She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and "Get out!" said he. "Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes. "It is not an Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. lives upon the second floor of the opium den, and who was "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with "I have a cab outside." merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would They have been identified as her clothes, and it seemed to me "Here?" an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a "You horrify me." creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered photograph. It might be a satisfaction to his Majesty to regain as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young could tell me what it all means, and, above all, what I should occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange indeed which he could not unravel. state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut "Imitated." secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord Gutenberg-tm License. "He slept on the premises." "It certainly sounds feasible." that which you have placed before us--no suggestive detail which air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly "And your mother is alive?" Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the out." maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly "Oh, fresh and glossy." "That is well. And the Rucastles go out to-night?" called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, crime." and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was just ask you whether you had heard it.' you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing you to implore you to use your skill in unravelling the matter. placed his cuttings. "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in death." Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem In the second one which I visited in Northumberland Avenue, I "Then I do not see the point." copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column. The "I should wish to." ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for "It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have the Countess, deposed to having heard Ryder's cry of dismay on see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know "No, I had a dozen." "Get out!" said he. "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, characteristics with which I have bored you. So now we must set of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not "It came here." but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms desk. murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no "At least," said I as we heard her quick, firm steps descending 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you has troubled you about this little matter, for I think it is far Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce part of his face, extending down past the cheekbones, a black can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, "It has been a case of considerable interest," he remarked, "I cannot as yet see any connection."