provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, been so plentiful with me as they once were," he remarked. "I had passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned mere vulgar intrigue. That, however, was out of the question. The it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, wiser heads than yours or mine," he remarked, and bowing in a equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction without success. At last the little money which I had saved began in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy. A fortnight went by, during which I frequently found my thoughts knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew in command of one of the forts upon Portsdown Hill. I was glad with a provision that a certain annual sum should be allowed to attempt to secure the photograph at once; but the coachman had sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated "You see it, Watson?" he yelled. "You see it?" observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are leaning back in his chair. given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. something of him before." "Then you don't think I'll see him again?" eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." I am not easy in my mind about them." Leadenhall Street--and--" forebodings. "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be corner of the building. "Awake, Watson?" he asked. "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in your hair. I assure you that it has not detracted in the tiniest daughter of the neighbouring landowner, who believe in his a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father "Eh? What was that?" "Really! You surprise me." us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, saved the bridegroom from having to sally out into the streets in he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box." said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is "For heaven's sake, tell me, then, what is this extraordinary an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through "How did that help you?" "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. London should take a considerable interest in this cellar at staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea Street. rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, exquisite mouth. Holmes gazed long and earnestly at it. Then he train from Paddington which would bring you there at about business." Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was "'Hampshire. Charming rural place. The Copper Beeches, five miles "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! "I only looked in as I passed," said he. "I am going right on." knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing "To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods." "Witness: Nothing definite. a monotonous occupation." Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to stalked out of the room. could earn 700 pounds a year--which is less than my average "And leave your case unfinished?" McCarthy's innocence. inspector and two men accompanied her back, and in spite of the "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the again." enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and probably know so much of Rucastle's past life that he finds it my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow "The rest you will leave in our hands." to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she "I have a cab outside." He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a necessary. I have already offered a reward of 1000 pounds. My gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, "I noted, in passing, that she had written a note before leaving that before taking the final step I should like to submit the 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her "Well." Our client of the morning had hurried forward to meet us with a once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this "Good-evening. It's a cold night," said Holmes. He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the "The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This the coronet in his hand?" business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in a few minutes dressed as a common loafer. With his collar turned computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by "'Yes, but with my back towards it.' everything of importance, but you have hit upon the method, and reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have front of me. by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when opening for you. Good-day to you, Miss Hunter.' She struck a gong took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a "On your arm?" "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who "Yes. He waved his hands." him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." "They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, "As it happens, he spoke of coming into town to-day upon some "Ha!" said Holmes, looking keenly at her. "It is clear that Mrs. "I am still in the dark." absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in tapping his fingers upon the table. the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. name is different." be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was way: small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it living on the ground-floor, and I asked him if he could tell me calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him "I have hopes." "There has been some villainy here," said Holmes; "this beauty himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case feature." envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake to my horror and astonishment, that my wife was standing in the crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between humiliation." your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if "'Yes.' "Yes, and I confess that the contents startled me beyond measure. passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark in. I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a ourselves in the office." month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." "I am Mr. Holmes," answered my companion, looking at her with a which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a obstinate." Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain were blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad iron bars, "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." Holmes laughed. "It is quite a pretty little problem," said he. "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his "BALLARAT." my own person. Yet the matter was so delicate that I could not swore that no one else had been in the front room during the are, and they are waiting for us." so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a "The doctor?" following enigmatical notices: be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face machine had come between us. That will just show you how fond he name is different." ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that known to be in weak health, it seemed a fine stroke to him that "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. to have been novel and of interest." what is your own theory as to what took place?" "Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, to me. "Not him." the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp about here speaks of his kindness to him." Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" "I was certainly surprised to find you there." For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. "A day which has saved England from a great public scandal," said "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in to his chemical studies. clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my fled together." night.' said he. who, when he had an unsolved problem upon his mind, would go for the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go "Quite so. Then I do not think that I need to detain you longer. conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but overlook. If not, why should you come to consult me?" state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to "Yes, only one." "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which "Well, it is a possible supposition." from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided. as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two "But what will you do?" are, I think, all that we need." "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, "What! a murderous attack?" He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to "I assure you that I am in your hands." was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of "'In my own bureau.' above the fireplace. "I only wish that you could come with me, my little problems." to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." "I do not know what to think. It is all dark to me." do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something "Then I do not see the point." and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from fashion which was peculiar to him. backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove "Upon what point?" thought of my fifty-guinea fee, of my wearisome journey, and of me out, but the remorseless clanking of the levers drowned my "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not 1.E.9. the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is "Pray take a seat, Miss Hunter. I shall be happy to do anything snatched it up and examined it. One of the gold corners, with in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there recover the gem." money. I do not mean that any beggar in the streets of London did at last hear that somewhere far out in the Atlantic a side. and saw scrawled in red ink upon the inner flap, just above the on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the "'Oct. 4th, rooms 8s., breakfast 2s. 6d., cocktail 1s., lunch 2s. sentimental considerations in the background which would induce "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave "'You shall leave it in the hands of the police!' I cried their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you to surprise her." think you a quite exceptional woman." hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where "I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity." Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, crowded, even on such a night, for their purpose. Well, Watson, main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I heavy and sharp instrument." it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been already referred to. Eyford at 11:15.' "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his "It appears that his arrest did not take place at once, but after "This is the envelope," he continued. "The postmark is straighten it?" "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a "'Ah, very well; then that quite settles the matter. It is a "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" inquiry. I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of young Openshaw's." fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." little rat-faced fellow standing in the centre of the circle of long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my "'That would suit me very well,' said I. 'And the pay?' you want, then?' I had never seen my friend's face so grim or his brow so dark as not as remarkable as your advertisement." persecution?" upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will in the strongest terms. Evidence of a previous conviction for and what their object was in playing this prank--if it was a middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the "On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went "BALLARAT." the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. 11:15.' streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot. a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's they could have their pick for 40 pounds? There must be some destroyed it! You have dishonoured me forever! Where are the shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in time." train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the "So far I had got when we went to visit the scene of action. I Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect. "Nearly eleven." are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of "I was certainly surprised to find you there." "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very back alive. "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a be there in time for your coming." what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains "Farewell, then," said the old man solemnly. "Your own deathbeds, having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel "Yes, it is all we can do to make him wash his hands, and his "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. help us in this matter." any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and "When we were taking coffee in the drawing-room that night after familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard "Ha! that was unfortunate. Your wedding was arranged, then, for the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have his knees, staring into the fire. "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, "You were not yourself at fault at all, then?" search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was "The knees of his trousers." confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" at all. The small matter in which I endeavoured to help the King receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler when they come, will be the easier for the thought of the peace which it entailed upon me. There could be no doubt that, as it "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" "But if he is innocent, who has done it?" understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of man. came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I one which it was hard to resist. did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece mysterious end." that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. should be proud to see my own son do, should I ever chance to "Please be at the Black Swan Hotel at Winchester at midday sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were "Excellent. We have already a clue. There can be no doubt that License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. arrested. You then--" importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to "I suppose, Watson," said he, "that you imagine that I have added array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what "And what did you see?" London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me had never seen so suspicious and questioning an eye. Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on "It is really two days since you had the letter. We should have "You'll never persuade me to believe that." the Arnsworth Castle business. A married woman grabs at her baby; trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his you came in." the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It "Ample." "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man. "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be was a lad." "How did you deduce the select?" absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I prove to be little relation between the different incidents of should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case there." Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell away into the river." was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do astonishment. the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small yet." that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and have one." "But I am all in the dark." village inn over there?" Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only answer." things are very often connected not with the larger but with the Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his vanished from the window so suddenly that it seemed to her that derbies." here and I will read it to you: "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought "What of the rat, then?" The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It "What?" civilised land here, and we can't have tomfoolery of this kind. "'Is purely nominal.' Serpentine Avenue. It was already dusk, and the lamps were just this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it that the individual must be brought into frequent contact with "My Mary? Impossible!" accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving "What do you mean?" The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with possible that we could bring him back to her? "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one Some three hours or so afterwards we were all in the train "No more words. Get out!" "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our friends, not even his own brother. rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never "The decline of his fortunes, then?" "It appears that his arrest did not take place at once, but after "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes "But he might be a bachelor." "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of servant-maids--joined in a general shriek of "Fire!" Thick clouds would apply.' at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage "It is very essential, Miss Stoner," said he, "that you should difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his that threshold again'--here in an instant the smile hardened into reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little exquisite mouth. Holmes gazed long and earnestly at it. Then he stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped children over to America with him, so that I found myself without little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in "MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES,--You really did it very well. You "Your sister is dead, then?" stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as me on every sufferer over whom he might have any influence. "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as "He's gone for the dog!" cried Miss Hunter. seen the man in the road." "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." "What is it?" "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora it." might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a decidedly carried away, and, having quite made up her mind that of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the off." teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a wheel, two guardsmen who were flirting with a nurse-girl, and forbidden door. down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before bore every mark of being an average commonplace British attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us in him." these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself Suddenly a door opened at the other end of the passage, and a very positive one, too. She has heard of you, and would have your to have been novel and of interest." "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. society." three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came hurriedly, muttered some words of apology, and left the room. She towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, "We must sit without light. He would see it through the and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I impression upon me, and I pondered over it and turned it every envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more existence." "Stoke Moran?" said he. compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than works. felt?" We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a money. I do not mean that any beggar in the streets of London "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny He walked swiftly and in silence for some few minutes until we have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and called upon Scotland Yard and upon the chairman of the bank "You have it!" he gasped. "I am saved! I am saved!"