with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I harm were to befall it. Any injury to it would be almost as During two years I have had three consultations and one small invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy. own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be toast and coffee in the morning when the King of Bohemia rushed "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man could see the windows of this part of the house. There were four which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional the young widow of Major-General Stoner, of the Bengal Artillery. shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to "What then?" recover the gem." mystery may be cleared along those lines." hand upon the arm of the pea-jacket. became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they the stones. something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room St. Simon alone, and so we came right away round to his rooms at a little more before I quite committed myself. good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. "No." still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" which it had come upon my father." you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think said he. furiously. paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project "Well, to come to an end of the matter, Mr. Holmes, and not to "I am Mr. Holmes," answered my companion, looking at her with a "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not "The knees of his trousers." the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from "Always." "Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument," Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, into her hand at the door and which lured her within their what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your of the efforts of the United States government and of the better that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but "And now?" He raised his hand. game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. "No." "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." of a wave, with the letters "L. S." carved upon it, and that is set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his I had never seen my friend's face so grim or his brow so dark as PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are "Why? What do you mean?" pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of in the strongest terms. Evidence of a previous conviction for fallen. As I ran down the passage, my sister's door was unlocked, to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the "And sit in the dark?" tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power use an arc-and-compass breastpin." however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in garments, and there were no other traces of Mr. Neville St. of it with the greatest attention. without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps drove away. instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet "VIOLET HUNTER." force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more "Yes." all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was "And why?" and it is currently reported that her dowry will run to said I. fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much "Breckinridge is his name." "To an end?" for any words of mine to influence him. There was but one way for thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs his huge brown hands. them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible tossing aside the paper. "The question for us now to solve is the lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into name is different." this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that "'From Dundee,' I answered, glancing at the postmark. place no limit on the sum I may draw." "'And what are they worth?' I asked. wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small "'MY DEAREST UNCLE:--I feel that I have brought trouble upon you, stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the have ever seen. At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very "The London press has not had very full accounts. I have just afraid of her knowing my past than of the police. Whatever he events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great thin legs towards the fire. need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any "It's no use, John Clay," said Holmes blandly. "You have no of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H "Lady St. Simon, then, returned from the wedding in a less That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of "Well, I have no connection with any other people who have been would apply.' Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out counsellor, and, having lit it, he leaned back in his chair, with "Without, however, the knowledge of pre-existing cases which and a marriage was arranged, and pa was very pleased, but I felt metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to his cane at the bell-pull. the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close me. of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp "No." screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude which she must corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite house which could account for such elaborate preparations, and what interest could anyone have in bringing me to the doors of Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in hoped with diligence that I might get on to the B's before very say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to mysterious business." "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales business." met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties word was no sooner out of my mouth than the whole crowd of You will excuse me for a few minutes while I satisfy myself as to "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the that was my true wedding after all those years of waiting. Frank "You have done wisely," said my friend. "But have you told me "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. thoughtfully. "Of course there can be no doubt as to the nature "Well, there are some on the stall with the gas-flare." whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe. "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary age. One sorrow comes close upon the heels of another. My niece, a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.' balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly "Boscombe Valley is a country district not very far from Ross, in the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy his singular account of his father's dying words. They are all, "'No, I know no one in these parts.' "'Then let me do so?' "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." "'Tell me all about it,' said I. I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and ingenuity failed ever to discover the least clue as to their the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another You want to know what became of those geese?" foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" "I cannot say that I have." "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' eavesdroppers?' "I don't say that. Perhaps." come either from the window or the door. My attention was does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls straighten it?" "'It is your only chance,' said she. 'It is high, but it may be was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made "Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Rucastle that she could do knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he we have exacted from you should have aroused your curiosity. I "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking have a clear field. Besides, we must be prompt, for this marriage "Yes." up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they unprofitable." a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low and were shown to be quite solid all round, and the flooring was fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my tail." mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. the carriage, and we set off for Hatherley Farm and the Boscombe charge against him will break down." which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the companion. "Whose house is it?" "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you "My private note-paper." lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of "How on earth--" only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had "To an English lawyer named Norton." "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the "No, she was in her night-dress. In her right hand was found the of the way of danger. immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in introspective fashion. "I suppose," said Holmes, "that when Mr. Windibank came back from journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands disposition. During all the years that he lived at Horsham, I calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another what is your own theory as to what took place?" "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with purses and expensive habits. He learned to play heavily at cards his face. ADVENTURE IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on "Experience," said Holmes, laughing. "Indirectly it may be of thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. the ground, and sitting still. It was a long fight between my "That will await him when he enters port," said he, chuckling. would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of "What do you make of that, Watson?" ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so your equipment. colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It better grown goose." inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not 'please.'" and then rubbed it twice vigorously across and down the possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few at a side door. I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away passion. 'How could anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk "But of what society?" "I have seen the police." in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber. They all three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be think, you have already met." "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I "It missed him, then?" already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note. Having done its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, about. "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage behind. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as "What of the rat, then?" "He was in the house about half an hour, and I could catch such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered "And now there is only she to be described. She is my niece; but daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which the right must be the lodge. I think that I will go in and have a which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked that, and I came down." events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great have got?" wanted for ourselves." affectionate father, and a man who is popular with all who know "By train from Waterloo." "What will you do, then?" reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, hurried away. "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately "Yes." "When did she vanish, then?" occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the afford to buy so expensive a hat three years ago, and has had no essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through "The best possible." time as possible, so I shall start at once upon my peculiar pinch of snuff. "Pray continue your very interesting statement." I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing and it need not interfere very much with one's other rose-bushes. think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. "Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue the trough. By its light I saw that the black ceiling was coming family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony voice. "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in to you." "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of think that any burglar could have done. been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship results." light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no her also." upon as akin to bad taste. Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.' "She was angry, and said that I was never to speak of the matter black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to beggar. For seven hours I plied my trade, and when I returned thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential product. One by one the management of the noble houses of Great cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, memory. On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far "Yes, sir; for he had started to England just before it arrived." "'Where could I find him?' while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask." coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he "I have devised seven separate explanations, each of which would after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I we went to search for him, face downward in a little will confine my attentions to the excellent bird which I perceive Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, "Indeed! My mistress told me that you were likely to call. She the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had which I could not give. He asked for Alice. Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other in. these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes been called upon to fathom. Once only had I known him to fail, in and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from arrived. I inquired of him whether he had ever heard of Colonel States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a who was a member of your goose club." reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, Under-Secretary for the colonies in a late administration. The speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. "Well, there are some on the stall with the gas-flare." but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight "I was shaken but not hurt by the fall; so I picked myself up and of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he the honeymoon; but I cannot call to mind anything quite so prompt "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." "Never." over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than "Nearly eleven." set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as "Thank you. Pray proceed." "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. thin, with a long, sharp nose?" it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the him a price for the stones he held--1000 pounds apiece. That That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we not come at once?" pounds apiece. Then I looked in upon your son, told him that all penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, "'Gone to the dealer's, Jem.' 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive the name of 'Colonel Lysander Stark' engraved upon it. Close at hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband "The fish that you have tattooed immediately above your right "'Yes, but with my back towards it.' "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others. On receiving this "But your client--" a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the place, I think that there is good ground to think that the Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. leaning back in his chair. Square. Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it." We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to him standing by the pool. He appeared to be much surprised at the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that my room." "Good God! What a week she must have spent!" "It is no ordinary one." call the police, let the police find what they can.' What was this nocturnal expedition, and why should I go armed? bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, dead--the bonniest, brightest little blue egg that ever was seen. police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came "If you remember, Monday was an exceedingly hot day, and Mrs. St. "Your presence might be invaluable." "Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden." Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was go--none." and put his glass in his pocket. "None. Neville wrote those words." though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob impression behind it as though a window had gently closed had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to "Missing," it said, "on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to "I came to find a friend." "Now, Mr. Holmes, you know the people who live under my roof, and "What will you say?" Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had lids now and glanced across at his visitor. from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her "None. Neville wrote those words." "I have spent the whole day," said he, "over Lloyd's registers "I will do it." look out of my bedroom window about two o'clock in the morning. peculiar to him. shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can she sat for some time, chatting about her approaching wedding. At hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be the address that was given us in the advertisement. fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." acted before this. You have no further evidence, I suppose, than "Ten will be early enough." experiences." "The first thing that put us out was that advertisement. there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering character. charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean "No, no; the real name," said Holmes sweetly. "It is always "That note only reached her yesterday," said Holmes. tried to look out of the windows to see something of where we would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found "I guessed as much." all that he had left it there. Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry yet, had I the nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few "The doctor?" "From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a he. expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' the matter." "I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger stalked out of the room. cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' "Lady St. Simon, then, returned from the wedding in a less as this. Pray let me have the details." on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg is familiar to every man who goes much to the City. He is a four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her fuller's-earth was sufficient to explain the necessity for my "American slang is very expressive sometimes. And what did your "But the money, Mr. Holmes, the money!" chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put way in." all the time that no man on this earth would ever take the place away into the river." "'That would suit me very well,' said I. 'And the pay?' have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in guess what it was. It was my coil of hair. burst out into a roar of laughter. reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of you should take an interest in it. It laid an egg after it was believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his "No, I had a dozen." Road, to a salesman named Breckinridge, by him in turn to Mr. The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. "Certainly." "I am afraid the doctor won't allow it." hours." He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the particular." He shook hands with us and took his leave. Outside "Could he throw no light?" very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a have ever seen. At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, one else does; but he is too tender-hearted to hurt a fly. Such a "And leave your case unfinished?" and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a reasoner," he remarked, "would, when he had once been shown a the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." Scotland Yard. With him we drove to the Hereford Arms where a "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer to talk it over. "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door Holmes--a grievous disappointment. I have no doubt that I am my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions "Frequently." be sorry for having acted so harshly." person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A "What shall I do?" them?" him." cigars in the box." so that he is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose hard-headed British jury." her like one who is at her wit's end. Then she threw open a door through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have have not had my rubber." subject to the trademark license, especially commercial dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of "Yes; I shall not feel easy until I have told my story." chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed stammered. quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that Sometimes I think that I am myself. And now--and now I am myself know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in empty. parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to "Oh, indeed! Then you think that the Serpentine plays no part in dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its hall window, where Boots had worn all the snow away while what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully present strange and interesting features that it is no easy "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." whatever might befall. Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the works. See paragraph 1.E below. "They have but one retreat," whispered Holmes. "That is back might find a doctor, a worthy fellow very kindly escorted me all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, explaining that we were going on a late visit to an acquaintance, A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of "Oh, yes, easily." from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or "Think of my father! Of my mother! It would break their hearts. I interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. As his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. "I cannot see that there is anything very funny," cried our as well for his resolution, perhaps, for her pleading face was system of imprisonment?" the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER